Professor Yixin Yu is an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a professor of Electricial Engineering in Tianjin University. He is an expert on the simulation, analysis and planning of power system.

He has been teaching and researching in the area of Power System Stability Analysis over several decades. Especially in the security region methodology for the security, he has achieved systematically significant original accomplishments both in theory and practical applications, and for the first time, implemented them into real bulk power grids. At the same time, Prof. Yu and his team have developed a comprehensive set of theory, models and methods in the area of urban power distribution system expansion planning. Based on that, they developed a fully functional Urban Power Grid Planning System software with independent intellectual property rights, which has been used in more than 1000 power grid planning projects in China. The amount of money involved has already be more than 500 billion RMB and huge economic and social benefits are made. As the initiator and active promoter of Smart Grid in China, Prof. Yu has clarified the basic ideas, the necessity and the most important challenges of Smart Grid, undertook many Smart Grid related consulting projects of Chinese Academy of Engineering, hosted the first China Smart Grid forum, and made an important contribution to promote the scientific development of Smart Grid and the implementation of the Smart Grid project in China. Recent years, he has developed a new field of Non-Intrusive Load Disaggregation and Monitoring in China and actively promotes its application into Smart Grid.

He has won the Second Prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, the Second Prize of National Technological Innovation Award, the Ten Colleges and Universities Scientific and technological Achievement Award, and 5 provincial first prizes. 6 books and more than 260 papers have been published