Dr. Hong Chen is a Principal Engineer at PJM. She is a well-known practitioner on electricity market and power grid operation risk mitigation, and serves as an industry advisor for many R&D projects at National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Power Systems Engineering Research Center.

Dr. Chen, an IEEE Fellow, has been actively leading IEEE PES Technical Activities at various capacity for the past decades as Chair of Task Forces, Technical Committees, and the Technical Council. She received 2024 IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award, “For contributions in leading strategic technology development in PES and power grid operation.”

Hong obtained her Bachelor degree in 1992 and Master degree in 1995, from Southeast University in China, and her Ph.D. degree in 2002 from University of Waterloo in Canada. Prior to joining PJM in 2007, she worked at ISO New England as Principal Analyst in Market Design and at NARI on EMS applications.