Wensheng Gao has been appointed Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University since 2002. He holds Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Dalian University of technology in 1995, and a Ph.D in Electrical Power Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1997. His research interests include high voltage insulation diagnosis technology, reliability analysis of electrical equipment, and intelligent technology of electric power equipment. He has been the PI of more than 38 academic and industrial projects，including one “863” sub-project, one sub-project in Science and Technology Support program, two national Natural Science Foundation projects, seven international collaborative projects, and nine significant transverse projects. He was awarded eighty most influential papers.

1995-1998, Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

1989-1992, Master of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China

1985-1989, Bachelor of Science. Department of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, China

2002/12-Present ，Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

2001/01-2002/12，Senior Lecturer ，Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

1999/01-2000/12，Postdoctoral Research Fellow，Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

1992/07-1995/09，Lecturer，Department of Electromagnetic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China

“Online monitoring and diagnostic technique for partial discharge faults in large power generators and transformers”, Second Class, Science and Technology Progress Award of Education Ministry，China ,2003

“Fault tree analysis for power transformer”，Second Class, Science and Technology Progress Award of Anhui Province, China，2004

“The key technology research and application of intelligent remote center of power equipment monitoring ”， First Class, Science and Technology Progress Award of Guangdong Province, China，2013

“The key technology research and application of calibration standard of partial discharge detection in GIS ”，Science and Technology Progress Award, Second Class, China Power Science Award, China，2013