Research

Maxim on the Sundail: Actions Speak Louder Than Words.
Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chain Management

Manufacturing (from Latin "manu factura", "making by hand")

World economy is going global. China is becoming a world manufacturing center. Our study focuses on how to efficiently simulate and optimize the design, planning and operations of manufacturing systems and supply chains to support the material and product flow that enabling the function of manufacturing systems.

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Integrated Building Energy, Safety and Control Systems

This is a sub-project of Tsinghua-UTC Building Energy, Safety and Control System Research Center, carried out by CFINS.

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Network Security

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

--The Art of War, Sun Tzu

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Power System Analysis and Control

In recent years, power systems become larger and larger, and large scale blackout also occurs more frequently. The research on maintaining power system security and preventing cascading failures is becoming one of the hot topics in power system area, especially after the US-Canada blackout on Aug. 14, 2003. The major research in our group focuses on taking effective measures to prevent the propagation of system failures in a power system emergency.

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