Dr. HUANG Yuping received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida (UCF), USA, in 2014. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at UCF and served as an Operations Management Consultant for Bayer–Monsanto.

She is currently a Professor-level Senior Engineer and Master’s Supervisor at the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She also serves as Deputy Director of the Energy Strategy and Carbon Assets Center, Director of the Guangdong Power Grid–GIEC Joint Laboratory for Electricity–Carbon Coupling Technology.

Her research focuses on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) resource utilization, intelligent low-carbon decision-making for integrated energy systems, and electricity–carbon coupling technologies. She develops flexible multi-objective energy and power resource management methods under complex and uncertain environments to support intelligent and low-carbon operation of integrated energy and vehicle–grid interaction systems.

She has led or participated in more than 16 national, provincial, and international research projects, including the National Key R&D Program of China, NSFC projects, CAS talent programs, and collaborative projects with the Energy Foundation, State Grid, and China Southern Power Grid, with total research funding exceeding RMB 15 million. And, she has published over 40 papers in journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Conversion and Management, and Applied Energy, authored two academic monographs, and holds multiple invention patents, including 16 granted as first inventor, filed 3 PCT patents, registered 3 software copyrights, and contributed to the development of 3 industry group standards.

Selected Publications

1. Investment Decision Analysis Approach for Urban V2G Projects Based on Value Network, Suliang Liao, Yuping Huang*, Weijia Yang, Ying Li, Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol.127, 2025, 106440. (IF 12.0)

2. Safe multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for decentralized low-carbon operation in active distribution networks and multi-microgrids, Tong Ye, Yuping Huang*, Weijia Yang, Guotian Cai, Yuyao Yang, Feng Pan, Applied Energy, Vol. 387, 2025, 125609. (IF 10.1)

3. Economic and carbon reduction potential assessment of vehicle-to-grid development in Guangdong province, Ying Li, Yuping Huang*, Yu Liang, Chenxi Song, Suliang Liao, Energy, Vol. 302, 2024, 131742. (IF 9.0)

4. Hybrid continuous-discrete time control strategy to optimize thermal network dynamic storage and heat-electricity integrated energy system dynamic operation, Weijia Yang, Yuping Huang*, Tong Ye, Feng Pan, Daiqing Zhao, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 301, 2024. (IF 9.9)

5. Spatial and temporal evolution of cost-competitive offshore hydrogen in China: a techno-economic analysis, Zhou Zhou, Guotian Cai*, Yuping Huang, et.al., Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024. ( IF 16.3)

6. Deciphering Stakeholder Strategies in Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling: Insights from a Tripartite Evolutionary Game and System Dynamics, Shuai Nie, Guotian Cai, Yuping Huang, et.al., Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.452, 2024. (IF 9.7)

7. A hybrid electric vehicle load classification and forecasting approach based on GBDT algorithm and temporal convolutional network, Tianren Zhang, Yuping Huang*, Hui Liao, Yu Liang. Applied Energy, Vol. 351, 2023. (IF 10.1)

8. Mechanism and analytical methods for carbon emission-exergy flow distribution in heat-electricity integrated energy system, Weijia Yang, Yuping Huang*, Tianren Zhang, Daiqing Zhao, Applied Energy, Vol. 352, 2023. (IF 10.1)

9. A coupled hydraulic-thermal dynamic model for the steam network in a heat–electricity integrated energy system, Weijia Yang, Yuping Huang*, Daiqing Zhao, Energy, Vol. 263, 2022. (IF 9.0)

10. The short-term optimal resource allocation approach for electric vehicles and V2G service stations, Jie Xu, Yuping Huang*, Applied Energy, Vol. 319, 2022. (IF 9.0)

Honors and Awards

2023- Outstanding Graduate Supervisor, Guangzhou Education Base, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2023- Third Prize, Science and Technology Progress Award, China Southern Power Grid

2021- National Silver Award, Industry Track, China International “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (sole advisor)

2019- Best Paper Award, IEEE PES International Conference

▪ Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) resource utilization,

▪ Intelligent decision-making for integrated energy systems,

▪ Electricity-carbon coupling technology

She has led or participated in 16 projects in digital energy and V2G management systems, funded by national, provincial, and industry partners. Representative projects include:

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Mechanism of model–intelligence collaborative regulation for transient interdependent dynamic balance of urban V2G vehicle–charger–grid systems, 2025–2027, Principal Investigator.

2. National Key R&D Program of China: Dynamic carbon emission assessment and intelligent decarbonization decision-making for the energy value chain, 2022–2025, Subproject Leader.

3. Chinese Academy of Engineering Strategic Consulting Project: High-quality energy development strategy for Guangdong—toward a secure, flexible, and intelligent new power system, 2024–2025, Task Leader.

4. Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission Project: Key technologies and demonstration of intelligent management for flexible aggregation of V2G, 2024–2026, Principal Investigator.

5. Guangdong Natural Science Foundation: Optimization modeling and reliability analysis of V2G electric vehicle–charging infrastructure resources in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, 2023–2025, Principal Investigator.

6. Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Program: Regional carbon peaking and neutrality strategies based on cost optimization and integrated source–grid–load–storage systems, 2022–2024, Task Leader.

7. Energy Foundation (International Collaboration): New integrated energy service models for green and intelligent upgrading of traditional industrial parks, 2021–2023, Principal Investigator.

8. Energy Foundation (International Collaboration): Development pathways for integrating clean electricity and new energy vehicles in Guangdong and the Greater Bay Area, 2021–2022, Task Leader.

9. China Southern Power Grid Project: Refined carbon reduction assessment and intelligent optimization for energy-intensive enterprises, 2025–2026, Principal Investigator.

10. China Southern Power Grid Project: Energy supply–demand forecasting, early warning mechanisms, and security decision-support methods, 2022–2024, Principal Investigator.

11. China Southern Power Grid Project: Key technologies for electricity carbon accounting based on dynamic electricity–carbon factors, 2024–2025, Principal Investigator.

12. State Grid Corporation of China Project: Key technologies and demonstration for flexible management of EV storage–load resources, 2019–2022, Task Leader.