it-po research achievements in brief •Being an excellent researcher in Electrical Engineering, his researches had been applied to solve many practical problems in the power industry. •His early researches had won three times the Sir John Madsen Medal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, namely, in 1981, 1982, and 1988. •He was a pioneer on artificial intelligence (AI) and computational intelligence in power engineering. Since 1986, he had inspired many other power engineering researchers in the then emerging fields. He also collaborated with researchers in many universities over the world.