Qianwen Xu

Qianwen Xu received PhD degree in electrical engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2018. Then she worked as postdoc research fellow in Aalborg University in Denmark, a visiting researcher with Imperial College London in UK, and a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoc Fellow in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2018-2020. From 2020 to 2024, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Since 2024, she has been a tenured Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She is the director of Intelligent Sustainable Grid Lab (ISG @ KTH) from 2020, and co-director of Dig-it Lab from 2024.

Her research interests include advanced control, optimization and artificial intelligence applications of power converter dominated grids and microgrids. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers including 55 top IEEE transactions papers (15 first authored IEEE transactions papers) and 2 book chapters. She has secured more than 18 research grants from esteemed sources, such as Swedish Research Council (incl. VR Starting Grant), Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden's Innovation Agency (Vinnova), Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), Swedish Transport Administration, EU Horizon, EU Horizon MSCA DN, Clean Energy Transition Partnership, JPI Urban Europe, C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, Digital Futures, STINT, StandUP for Energy, etc.

She is Chair of IEEE Power and Energy Society & Power Electronics Society, Sweden since 2025, and Vice Chair of IEEE Power Electronics Society Technical Committee (TC) 12- Energy Access and Off-Grid Systems since 2024. She is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on  Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. She served as Organization committee and WiE Chair for IECON 2023, 2020, and ECCE 2022-2025, and as Organization committee, TPC chair, special sessions chair and topic chair for multiple top and flagship conferences.

She is recipient of IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award 2025,  first place winner of Nordic Energy Challenge Award 2022,  Humboldt Research Fellowship 2019, Excellent Doctorate Research Work in Nanyang Technological University in 2018, Best paper award in IEEE PEDG 2020, etc. Her research work "Smart microgrid for sustainable communities" and  "Safe AI for enhanced sustainable energy systems" are selected by Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) 100 list, 2023 and 2024 respectively, as one of the most promising activities in Sweden in terms of societal impact and commercialization.