Publications

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Preprints and Working Papers

• P6
  Liudong Chen, Hyemi Kim, Adam N. Elmachtoub, and Bolun Xu, "Fair Aggregation in Virtual Power Plants," arXiv preprint:2604.03559, 2026. arXiv
• P5
  Liudong Chen and Bolun Xu, "Fairness as an Investment: Dynamic Participation and Long-Run Profit in Virtual Power Plants," arXiv preprint:2606.02820, 2026. arXiv
• P4
  Liudong Chen and Bolun Xu, "Socially Informed Distribution Grid Investment Reveals a Role for Distributed Batteries in Urban Electrification," working paper, 2026.
• P3
  Liudong Chen, Jay Sethuraman, and Bolun Xu, "Gaming on Coincident Peak Shaving: Equilibrium and Strategic Behavior," arXiv preprint:2501.02792, 2025. arXiv
• P2
  Liudong Chen and Bolun Xu, "A Joint Learning and Optimization Framework for Behavior-Informed Time-Varying Pricing," arXiv preprint:2307.15088, 2023. arXiv
• P1
  Liudong Chen, Bolun Xu, Bai Cui, and Shixuan Zhang, "Optimal Offer Curve Design of a Virtual Power Plant Considering Multi-Stage Uncertainties," working paper, 2024. SSRN

Journal Papers

• J11
  Xueyuan Cui, Liudong Chen, Yi Wang, and Bolun Xu, "Online Scheduling of Thermostatically Controlled Loads: A Stepwise Reformulation Approach," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, accepted. PDF
• J10
  Liudong Chen and Bolun Xu, "A Prudent Framework for Understanding Risk-Awareness in Demand Response," European Journal of Operational Research, to be published. arXiv
• J9
  Jianxiao Wang, Liudong Chen, Zhenfei Tan, Ershun Du, Nian Liu, Jing Ma, Mingyang Sun, Canbing Li, Jie Song, Xi Lu, Chin-Woo Tan, and Guannan He, "Inherent Spatiotemporal Uncertainty of Renewable Power in China," Nature Communications, 14, 5379, 2023. Paper
• J8
  Liudong Chen, Nian Liu, Liangying Liu, Xinghuo Yu, and Yusheng Xue, "Data-driven Stochastic Game with Social Attributes for Peer-to-peer Energy Sharing," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 5158-5171, 2021. PDF
• J7
  Liudong Chen, Nian Liu, Songnan Yu, and Yan Xu, "A Stochastic Game Approach for Distributed Voltage Regulation among Autonomous PV Prosumers," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 776-787, 2022. PDF
• J6
  Liudong Chen, Nian Liu, and Jianhui Wang, "Peer-to-peer Energy Sharing in Distribution Networks with Multiple Sharing Regions," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 6760-6771, 2020. PDF
• J5
  Liudong Chen, Nian Liu, Chenchen Li, and Jianhui Wang, "Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing With Social Attributes: A Stochastic Leader-Follower Game Approach," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2545-2556, 2021. PDF
• J4
  Liudong Chen, Nian Liu, Chenchen Li, and Lei Wu, "Multi-Party Stochastic Energy Scheduling for Industrial Integrated Energy Systems Considering Thermal Delay and Thermoelectric Coupling," Applied Energy, vol. 304, 117882, 2021. PDF
• J3
  Liudong Chen, Nian Liu, Chenchen Li, Silu Zhang, and Xiaohe Yan, "Peer-to-peer Energy Sharing with Dynamic Network Structures," Applied Energy, vol. 291, 116831, 2021. PDF
• J2
  Nian Liu, Chenchen Li, Liudong Chen, and Jianhui Wang, "Hybrid Data-driven and Model-based Distribution Network Reconfiguration with Lossless Model Reduction," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 2943-2954, 2022. PDF
• J1
  Yubing Chen, Nian Liu, Liudong Chen, and Xinghuo Yu, "Region-to-Region Energy Sharing for Prosumer Clusters in Distribution Network: A Multi-Leaders and Multi-Followers Stackelberg Game," IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 398-409, 2023. PDF

Conference Papers

• C3
  Liudong Chen, Bolun Xu, and Feng Zhao, "The Limitations of Proxy Bus Models in Coordinated Transaction Scheduling," The 17th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy), Banff, Canada, 2026. PDFDOI
• C2
  Liudong Chen, Xiangqi Zhu, Bolun Xu, and Fei Ding, "Demand Side Flexibility Envelope Quantification Under Data Scarcity," IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2024. PDF
• C1
  Liudong Chen and Bolun Xu, "Saturation Effects in Equitable Demand Response Tariff Design," North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2023. PDF

Patent

• A1
  Nian Liu, Liudong Chen, and Chenchen Li, "Method and System of Hybrid Data-and-Model-Driven Hierarchical Network Reconfiguration," US Patent 11831505, 2023.