About me

Nice to meet you here! I am Haochi Wu, a junior but passionate researcher working on a low-carbon energy system for the future!

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.

Before this, I was a doctoral researcher and research associate in the ASSET Lab and Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan, working with Prof. Michael Craig. I completed my PhD research in energy systems at Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Mingyang Sun at Peking University.

I’m interested in the renewable transition of energy systems. I’m curious about how future energy systems mitigate and adapt to climate change. My research interests also include macro energy systems, efficient data-driven energy system operation, water-energy nexus, and emerging energy conversion and management technologies.

I have some published articles and preprints (Google Scholar ). If you are interested in my work, please feel free to contact me!

🔥 News

• 2025.Dec:  🎉🎉 New Journal Paper on technological advancements in EV battery has been pre-accepted by Nature Climate Change.
• 2025.Oct:  🎉🎉 New Journal Paper on global rooftop PV reliability under climate change has been accepted by Joule, and is selected as a Cover Paper!
• 2025.Oct:  🎉🎉 New Journal Paper on climate resilience in green hydrogen cost and planning has been accepted by The Innovation, and is selected as a Cover Paper!
• 2025.Sep:  🎉🎉 I have started my new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, joining the WE3 Lab!.
• 2024.Oct:  🎉🎉 Three submissions have been accepted by the 2024 AGU in Washington, D.C., with an oral presentation on the effects of climate change on energy systems (in the ‘Net Zero Emissions Energy Systems’ session).
• 2024.Aug:  🎉🎉 I am honored to have been selected as a new MES Fellow by Macro Energy Systems committee!

📝 Journal and Conference

Nat. Clim. Change 2026

• H. Wu, J. Chen, P. Vaishnav, et al. “Technological improvements in EV batteries offset climate-induced durability challenges”, in Nature Climate Change, in press, 2026.

  • Featured in a Nature Research Briefing.- M. Craig, H. Wu. “Electric vehicle battery advances mitigate lifetime reductions driven by climate change”, in Nature Climate Change, in press, 2026.

Joule 2026

• H. Wu, Q. Kong, M. Huber, et al. “Climate Change Will Increase High Temperature Risks, Degradation, and Costs of Rooftop Photovoltaics Globally”, Joule 10, 1102218, 2026. (Cover Paper)

The Innovation 2026

• H. Wu, M. Sun, M. Craig. “Updating Global Green Hydrogen Production Costs and Configurations under Future Climates”, in The Innovation (Cell Press), 101303, 2026. (Cover Paper)

• Q. Yuan, H. Wu, et al. “PrivLoad: Privacy-preserving Load Profiles Synthesis Based on Diffusion Models”, in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 16:6, 5628-5640, 2025.

• H. Wu, J. Wang, F. Teng, et al. “Tracking Bitcoin-Induced Carbon Trajectory in China Via Refined Spatiotemporal Assessment”, in Engineering, 2025, in press.

• H. Wu, D. Qiu, L. Zhang, M. Sun, (2024). “Adaptive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Flexible Resource Management in a Virtual Power Plant with Dynamic Participating Multi-Energy Buildings”, Applied Energy 374, 123998.

• H. Wu, M. Craig. “Mitigating Thermal Risk in Buildings during Weather Related Resource Adequacy Failures with Grid-Scale Energy Storage”, Accepted in International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) 2024, Baltimore, Maryland.

• H. Wu, M. Craig. “Climate Change Will Increase Costs of Rooftop Photovoltaics Globally”, Accepted as lightning talk in Macro Energy System Workshop (MES) 2024, Princeton University, NJ.

• J. Meng, H. Wu, T. Wang, et al. (2021). “A novel super-cooling enhancement method for a two-stage thermoelectric cooler using integrated triangular-square current pulses”, Energy, 217, 119360.

• T. Wang, H. Wu, J. Meng, et al. (2020). “Optimization of a double-layered microchannel heat sink with semi-porous-ribs by multi-objective genetic algorithm”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 149, 119217.

in-progress

• M. Shi, H. Wu, et al. “Moving beyond technical potential for rooftop solar photovoltaics,” Nature Reviews Clean Technology (In Revision), 2026.
• J. Moraski, H. Wu, M. Craig, and D. Callaway, “Quantifying the power system benefits of building upgrades for passive survivability in a changing climate,” Environmental Science & Technology (Under Review), 2026.
• L. Zhang, H. Wu, X. Wan, et al. “SAMG: State-Action-Aware Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning with Offline Model Guidance”, preprint on _arxiv.2410.18626.

🎖 Professional Service and Awards

• 2023-Present, Serve as Reviewer in Communications Earth & Environment, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.
• 2025, MES Fellow, Macro Energy Systems (MES) Committee.
• 2021, Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Zhejiang University
• 2019, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China (Rate: top 1%)

📖 Educations

• Sep 2023 – Sep 2025, Visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Michael Craig, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability.
• Sep 2023 – May 2025, Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, College of Control Science and Engineering
  • Supervisor: Prof. Mingyang Sun, Research Professor at Peking University & Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London
• Sep 2020 – May 2023, M.Sc at Zhejiang University, College of Control Science and Engineering
  • Recommended as an exam-free student to the graduate school
• Sep 2016 – May 2020, B.Eng. at North China Electric Power University, School of Control and Computer Engineering
  • Grade 92.3, Rankings 4/123

🔬 Research Projects

• Sep 2023 – Sep 2025, University of Michigan
  • Making Decarbonization of the Electric Power Sector Robust to Climate Change
  • Role: contribute to sub-research project modelling and manuscript writing
  • NSF CAREER: CAS- Climate: PI: Prof. Michael Craig
• Sep 2020 – May 2023, Zhejiang University
  • Data-driven Optimization of Energy Systems from the Perspectives of Information, Physics and Society
  • Role: contribute to sub-research project modelling and manuscript writing
  • NSFC joint program with Netherlands: PI: Prof. Mingyang Sun

🛠 Skills

Domain Knowledge: Scientific Programming, Energy System Modeling, Power System Economics, Convex Optimization, Machine Learning, Earth and Climate Science

Scientific Computing and AI Programming: Python, PyTorch, Julia, Matlab/Simulink, Git, Slurm, LaTeX, C, C++