Short Bio

Dr. Tao Hong is Duke Energy Distinguished Professor, NCAEC Faculty Fellow of Energy Analytics, Graduate Director, and Research Director of Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the Director of BigDEAL (Big Data Energy Analytics Laboratory), Chair of International Symposium on Energy Analytics, and General Chair of Global Energy Forecasting Competition. Dr. Hong currently serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Forecasting, Solar Energy, and Foresight. Dr. Hong is the Founding Chair of IEEE Working Group on Energy Forecasting, and IIF Section on Water, Energy and Environment (SWEET). Dr. Hong received his B.Eng. in Automation from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and his PhD with co-majors in Operations Research and Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.