Directory profile for Dr. Lusha Wang

Dr. Lusha Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Alabama. Before this, she was a post-doctoral at the Energy System Division, Argonne National Laboratory. She received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China in 2016 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA. She has been a research aide with the Energy System Division, Argonne National Laboratory in 2019 and 2020.

She is selected as 2025-2026 class of Hewson Faculty Fellows by the Styslinger College of Engineering at UA. She has received Best Paper Award at the IEEE PES General Meeting 2025, iREDEFINE Professional Development Award 2023, and IEEE PES Grid Edge Technologies 3-Minute Ph.D. Dissertation Challenge Finalist 2023. Her research focuses on developing scalable and robust decision-making frameworks for power distribution systems by integrating physics-based modeling, large-scale optimization, and data-driven learning. Her work spans applications in distribution system operation, transportation electrification, and distributed renewable energy integration, with the goal of enabling intelligent, resilient and sustainable system operations. Her research interests include:

1. Power distribution system modeling and optimization
2. Transportation electrification and V2G services
3. Distributed renewable energy integration
4. Machine-learning and data-driven methods for power system operations