Dr. Yilu Liu earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Xian Jiaotong University in Xian, China, in 1982 and her master’s degree and doctorate in electrical engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, in 1986 and 1989, respectively. She has spent her entire post-doctoral career at Virginia Tech. She began as an assistant professor in the school’s department of electrical engineering in 1990, rising to the rank of full professor in 2001. She is a UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of IEEE. She joined UT in August 2009 from Virginia Tech. She also has a joint appointment with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is an expert in the technologies used to monitor power grids and a researcher in ways to create the next-generation “smart grid.” Her work focuses on developing new and better ways to monitor and understand the flow of energy through the nation’s power grid on a large scale. While at Virginia Tech, she led the creation of FNET, the North American power grid monitoring network, which her group continues to operate.
