Fan is originally from a small village on the coast of East China, the daughter of a teacher and a hydraulic engineer.[2] She studied electrical engineering at Southeast University in Nanjing, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in 1994 and 1997 respectively. She came to the US as a doctoral student at West Virginia University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2001.[1]
After six years working for the industry at Midwest ISO, a nonprofit energy transmission organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota,[1][2] Lingling joined North Dakota State University as an assistant professor in 2007.[1] She moved to the University of South Florida in 2009,[2] and is a full professor there.[1]
In 2020, she became editor-in-chief of IEEE Electrification Magazine.[1][3]
Books
Fan is the author or coauthor of books including:[1]
Modeling and Analysis of Doubly Fed Induction Generator Wind Energy Systems (with Zhixin Miao, Academic Press, 2015)
Control and Dynamics in Power Systems and Microgrids (CRC Press, 2017)[4]
Recognition
Fan was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to stability analysis and control of inverter-based resources".[1][5]
^Sheble, Gerald (May 2018), "Control & Dynamics: How They Are Applied in Power System Microgrids [Book Review]", IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 98–100, doi:10.1109/mpe.2018.2798760
