Tong Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE at San Diego State University. Before joining SDSU, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University. His industry experience includes R&D roles with ISO-New England and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. As the first author, he received two Best Paper Awards at the 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting and the 54-th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. His research focuses on cyber-physical resilience enhancement of power electronics-dominated electricity infrastructure via both data-driven and model-based approaches. His CV can be found here.

Announcements

[Nov. 2025] Congratulations, Imasha and Lars, for winning the first and second places in the 2025 SDSU Engineering Graduate Research Symposium!

[Jul. 2025] As a panel speaker, Dr. Huang was invited to give a talk at the IEEE PES General Meeting 2025.

[Mar. 2025] Our paper titled “Data-Driven Design of Stability Enforcement Interfaces in IBR-Dominated Microgrids” is accepted by the IEEE PES General Meeting 2025. Congratulations, Beqa!

[Dec. 2024] Our group member, Beqa Abulashvili, successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Congratulations, Beqa!

[Oct. 2024] Our paper titled “A Natural Watermarking Approach to Cyber Attack Detection for Power Electronics- Interfaced Renewables” is accepted by 2024 56th North American Power Symposium (NAPS). Congratulations, Imasha and Lars!

[Jun. 2024] Our paper titled “The Role of Electric Grid Research in Addressing Climate Change” has been accepted in Nature Climate Change. The preprint is here.

[Oct. 2023] Our paper titled “Detection of Cyber Attacks in Grid-Tied PV Systems Using Dynamic Watermarking” is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. See here for the full paper.

[Sep. 2023] Our paper titled “Robust Dynamic Watermarking for Cyber-Physical Security of Inverter-Based Resources in Power Distribution Systems” is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. See here for the full paper.

[Aug. 2023] As the lead PI, Dr. Huang received the NSF ASCENT Award ($1.5M). The project aims to boost cyber and physical resilience of networked IBRs. Thanks, NSF!

[Aug. 2023] As a keynote speaker, Dr. Huang gave a talk at SPP 2023 Tech Expo in Kansas City, MO. [Agenda]

[Jul. 2023] As the first author, I received the prestigious IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Technical Committee Prize Paper Award from the IEEE PES Analytic Methods for Power Systems Committee. See here for the prize paper. [News]

[Apr. 2023] Our paper titled “Cyber-resilient Automatic Generation Control for Systems of Microgrids” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

[Dec. 2022] Our paper titled “Accelerating the Electric Grid Carbon Neutral Transition through Domain-tailored Artificial Intelligence” has been accepted by Pattern (Cell Press).

[Nov. 2022] Our paper titled “On an Information and Control Architecture for Future Electric Energy Systems” has been accepted by Proceedings of the IEEE. [Arxiv]

[Nov. 2022] Dr. Huang was invited to give a talk at the MAE Seminar Series organized by UCSD.

[Jun. 2022] Our paper titled “Massively Digitized Power Grid: Opportunities and Challenges from Use-inspired AI” has been accepted by Proceedings of the IEEE. [Arxiv]

[Sep. 2021] Our paper titled “A Neural Lyapunov Approach to Transient Stability Assessment of Power Electronics-interfaced Networked Microgrids” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. [Arxiv]

[Sep. 2021] Our paper titled “Enabling Secure Peer-to-peer Energy Transaction through Dynamic Watermarking in Future Distribution Grids” has been published in IEEE Electrification Magazine. [Link]

[Aug. 2021] Our paper titled “Distributed Learning-based Stability Assessment for Large Scale Networks of Dissipative Systems” has been accepted by 2021 60th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2021).

[Aug. 2021] I obtain my Ph.D. degree!

[May 2021] I’ve successfully defended my thesis entitled “Physical and Cyber Anomaly Management in Massively Digitized Power Systems.”

[Jan. 2021] We received the Best Paper Award, (top 0.76% of 1448 papers submitted) in the 54-th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 54) for our paper titled “A Neural Lyapunov Approach to Transient Stability Assessment in Interconnected Microgrids.” [Link]

[Jun. 2020] We received the Best Paper Award, (top 5% of 1600 papers submitted) in IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting 2020 for our paper titled “A Holistic Framework for Parameter Coordination of Interconnected Microgrids Against Disaster.” [News][Link]

[Mar. 2020] Our paper titled “A Synchrophasor Data-Driven Method for Forced Oscillation Localization Under Resonance Condition” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. [Link]