{{Short description|Chinese electrical engineer}} {{family name hatnote|Song|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Song Yonghua | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1964}} | birth_place = China | death_date = | death_place = | field = Electrical power | work_institution = University of Macau<br />Zhejiang University<br />Brunel University | alma_mater = Chengdu University of Science and Technology (now Sichuan University) | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Electrical power | prizes = {{no wrap|FREng (2004)}} | footnotes = Rector, University of Macau }} {{Infobox Chinese |order=st |s=宋永华 |t=宋永華 |p=Sòng Yǒnghuá }} '''Song Yonghua''' FREng ({{zh|s=宋永华}}; born 1964) is a Chinese electrical engineer. He has been rector of the University of Macau since January 2018, and previously served as Executive Vice President at Zhejiang University.<ref name="umac.mo">{{cite web|url=https://www.umac.mo/news-centre/news-and-events/news-and-press-releases/detail/43653/|title=Prof. Yonghua Song to be the next Rector of The University of Macau - University of Macau|website=www.umac.mo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ado.umac.mo/yonghua-song-assumes-office-as-um-rector/|title=Yonghua Song assumes office as UM rector - Alumni and Development Office|website=ado.umac.mo}}</ref>

== Education == Song was educated at Chengdu University of Science and Technology and received his M.S. and Ph. D degrees from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) of China in 1987 and 1989.

== Career == From 1991 to 1992, Song was the Royal Society Visiting Fellow at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK and from 1992 to 1993, he was the research officer at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and lecturer from 1993 to 1994 at the University of Bath, UK.

From 1997 to 2010, he was a Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Professor, Brunel University, UK. He held the Royal Academy of Engineering/Nuclear Electric/Siemens Chair of Power Systems at Brunel from Jan 1997 to Dec 2001. In 2004, he was appointed the pro-vice-chancellor for graduate studies at Brunel.

He became the pro-vice chancellor at the University of Liverpool in 2007, holding concurrently the post of executive president<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/about/previous-senior-staff/|title=Previous senior staff|website=Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)|access-date=2018-10-14|archive-date=2018-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014204224/http://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/about/previous-senior-staff/|url-status=dead}}</ref> at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He was also a Changjiang Scholar and chair professor of Xian Jiaotong University in 2001.

In 2009, he was an assistant president and professor of electrical engineering at Tsinghua University. He was appointed Director of the Chinese National Recruitment Program of Global Experts (1000 Talents Program) Office until December 2012. In November 2012, he joined Zhejiang University as executive vice president and the founding dean of the International Campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intl.zju.edu.cn/en/events/868652|title=Song Yonghua, Executive Vice President of ZJU: Speech to 2017 Freshman - International Campus Zhejiang University|website=www.intl.zju.edu.cn|access-date=2018-10-14|archive-date=2018-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014204201/http://www.intl.zju.edu.cn/en/events/868652|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intl.zju.edu.cn/en/news/administration-office/831566|title=Professor Song Yonghua Published an Article Entitled Enhancing the Quality of International Student Education in China to Advance "Double First-rate" Plan on China Education Daily - International Campus Zhejiang University|website=www.intl.zju.edu.cn|access-date=2018-10-14|archive-date=2018-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014204229/http://www.intl.zju.edu.cn/en/news/administration-office/831566|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In January 2018, he was appointed Rector (President) of the University of Macau, succeeding Wei Zhao.<ref name="umac.mo"/>

== Research == His research focuses on power system analysis, flexible alternating current transmission systems(FACTS) control, steady-state and transient state power system analysis, simulation and analysis of power systems.

== Awards == * Fellow, UK Royal Academy of Engineering (2004) [https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2004/July/42-new-fellows-join-royal-academy-of-engineering] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623133409/https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2004/July/42-new-fellows-join-royal-academy-of-engineering |date=2019-06-23 }} * Honorary Doctor of Engineering, University of Bath, UK<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/professor-yonghua-song-oration/|title=Professor Yonghua Song: oration|website=www.bath.ac.uk}}</ref> * Fellow, IEEE in 2008 for contributions to optimization techniques for power systems.<ref> {{Cite web| url=https://www.comsoc.org/membership/ieee-fellows/2008| title = IEEE Fellows 2008 &#124; IEEE Communications Society}} </ref> * Fellow, IET

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== External links == * [http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/eeaen/1699/2010/20101216112538419972693/20101216112538419972693_.html Song Yonghua's page at Tsinghua University]

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