Long Cheng, PhD
Professor
Van der Aalst Energy Process Intelligence Lab
School of Control and Computer Engineering
North China Electric Power University
Beijing, China
E-mail: lcheng[AT]ncepu.edu.cn
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About
Dr. Cheng is a Professor in the School of Control and Computer Engineering at NCEPU in Beijing and also a research staff member at the State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources. He leads EPI Lab (Van der Aalst Energy Process Intelligence Laboratory), with current research focusing on Process Intelligence, Smart Energy Systems, and Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Dr. Cheng was an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University (DCU), and a Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Before joining UCD in 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), worked with Prof. Wil van der Aalst for about two years on process mining techniques for large-scale event logs. He is currently working with Prof. Wil van der Aalst to develop the EPI Lab as an international platform for process intelligence and smart energy systems. During 2014 and 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Knowledge-based System Group led by Prof. Markus Krötzsch at TU Dresden (Germany).
Dr. Cheng received his PhD from the National University of Ireland Maynooth in 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Tomas Ward. He is currently a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as a Chair of the Journal of Cloud Computing.
News
| May, 2026 | Inauguration Ceremony of EPI Lab |
| Aug, 2025 | CFP: SI @ ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. |
| Jun, 2025 | Research Graces Cover of Prestigious CCF-A Journal |
| Jun, 2025 | Editor of Distinction Awards from Springer Nature. |
| Jan, 2025 | Work on W4A4KV4 LLMs Serving accepted by ACM ASPLOS. |