Biography
From 2003 to 2012, Dr. Ning Lu was a senior research engineer with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She was a substation design engineer with the Shenyang Electric Power Survey and Design Institute from 1993 to 1998. She has conducted and managed research projects in modeling and analysis of power system load behaviors, wide area energy storage management systems, renewable integration, climate impact on power grids, and smart grid modeling and diagnosis. Dr. Lu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She has authored or co-authored more than 60 publications, including journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
Research interests:
• Load modeling and control
• Wide-area energy storage
• Renewable integration
• Predictive defense model of the smart grid
• Climate change impacts on power grids
Education
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Ph.D.
2002
Electric Power Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY -
Master's
1999
Electric Power Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY -
Bachelor's
1993
Electrical Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Research Focus
Recent Publications
- Applying fine-tuned LLMs for reducing data needs in load profile analysis (2024)
- Special Section on Integrated Operation, Planning, and Business Paradigm for Coupled Energy, Transportation, and Information Networks (2025)
- ViT4LPA: A Vision Transformer for advanced smart meter Load Profile Analysis (2025)
- A Contextually Supervised Optimization-Based HVAC Load Disaggregation Methodology (2024)
- A Novel Power-Band Based Data Segmentation Method for Enhancing Meter Phase and Transformer-Meter Pairing Identification (2024)
- A Novel Vision Transformer based Load Profile Analysis using Load Images as Inputs (2024)
- Adaptive cold-load pickup considerations in 2-stage microgrid unit commitment for enhancing microgrid resilience (2023)
- An iterative bidirectional gradient boosting approach for CVR baseline estimation (2024)
- Assessment of Transmission-level Fault Impacts on 3-phase and 1-phase Distribution IBR Operation (2024)
- BERT-PIN: A BERT-Based Framework for Recovering Missing Data Segments in Time-Series Load Profiles (2024)
Recent News
Lu Named Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award Recipient
Posted on December 6, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards and Faculty and News
Ning Lu, Professor in the ECE Department has been announced as the winner of this year’s George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, given by the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. The award recognizes …
Guvenc and Lu Elevated to IEEE Fellows
Posted on December 1, 2020 | Filed Under: Faculty
Two NC State ECE professors–Ismail Guvenc and Ning Lu–were honored with elevation to IEEE Fellow in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering.
Media Mentions
What is being done to prevent power grid attacks?
February 23, 2023
At the FREEDM Systems Research Center, some of the state’s brightest minds are leading the way to improve how we power our lives.
How Mussels can be Monitored to Indicate Aquatic Toxins
April 12, 2021
AZoCleantech speaks with Dr. Alper Bozkurt and Dr. Jay Levine from NC State. The pair teamed up to develop a system that monitors the movement of mussels. The opening and closing of bivalve mollusks can indicate toxins in aquatic environments.