Prof. Chengke Zhou<br>IEEE Senior Member<br>Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

Prof. Chengke Zhou
IEEE Senior Member
Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

Chengke Zhou (M’07) received his BSc and MSc in 1983 and 1986 respectively from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Having received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Manchester, UK in 1994, he joined the School of Engineering and Computing at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) in 1994 and worked as Post-Doc Research Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer until August 2006 when he joined Heriot-Watt University as a Reader. In June 2007 he returned to GCU as a Professor.

Prof. Zhou has over 20 year research experience in power systems. His research interests include partial discharge based power plant condition monitoring, statistics based modelling for power plant failure and condition monitoring data analysis, modelling and analysis of power systems for design, control and operation of future Smart Grid. He has acted as consultant to EDF Energy, Scottish Power plc, British Energy and NEC Scotland and has attracted over 1 million pound’s research funding, including two major research projects funded by UK’s Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) EP/D048133 and EP/G028397. Prof. Zhou is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of IET and a member of IEEE. He has so far published over 100 papers.

More information about Prof. Chengke Zhou is available at http://www.gcu.ac.uk/sec/aboutus/energysystemsengineering/divisionstaff/czhou/.