On August 5, Professor Milos Manic, President of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE IES), announced the recipients of the 2025 IEEE IES awards. For his outstanding contributions to networked control and optimization of cyber-physical energy and power systems, Professor Yue Dong of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT) has been awarded the prestigious IEEE Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award.
Established in 1975, the IEEE Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award recognizes scholars worldwide who have made exceptional contributions to the field of industrial electronics. It is the highest honor of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and no more than one recipient is selected each year.
About Professor Yue Dong
Professor Yue Dong currently serves as Chair of the Academic Committee of NJUPT and Director of the Institute of Advanced Technology for Carbon Neutrality. He received his Ph.D. from South China University of Technology in 1995. He has been elected IEEE Fellow (2021), Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering (2022), Fellow of both the Chinese Association of Automation and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and is a recipient of the State Council Special Government Allowance. He has been listed in the lifetime global top 2% of scientists (ranking 4th nationwide in Engineering and Automation), continuously recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2018, and included in Elsevier’s China Highly Cited Researchers list since 2014.
Professor Yue has held key academic roles, including member of the IEEE IES Fellow Evaluation Committee, Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Associate Editor of IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2016-2018). He also serves on the editorial boards of Control Theory and Applications and Information and Control, and is a member of multiple expert panels, including the Expert Group of the China Association for Science and Technology’s Intelligent Manufacturing Consortium and the IFAC TC6.3 Power and Energy Systems Committee.
Professor Yue’s research focuses on networked control and optimization and their applications in smart grids. He has led more than 20 major research projects, including National Science Foundation of China major and key projects, National Key R&D Program projects, and 863 Program projects. His achievements include the 2022 IEEE Rudolf Chope Research & Development Award, the First Prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology Award (2019, 2022, both as first contributor), the First Prize of Invention Award of the Chinese Association of Automation (2019, first contributor), and the First Prize of Natural Science Award of the Chinese Association of Automation (2017, first contributor). He has also received the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Best Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award, and the 2020 Norbert Wiener Review Award of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. Additionally, three of his patented inventions won Silver Medals at the 2022 Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions.
Professor Yue has authored five monographs (four published by Springer and one by Science Press) and more than 500 SCI-indexed papers, including over 200 in IEEE Transactions. He holds over 100 authorized invention patents and has contributed to the development of four industry standards.
（Author: Ding Lei; Initial Review: Li Wei; Editor: Wang Hongcun; Review: Zhang Feng）
