Hoay Gooi received his PhD degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus (1983). He was Assistant Professor with Lafayette College, Easton (1983-85) and Senior Engineer/Team Leader with EMPROS (now Siemens), Minneapolis (1985-91), where he was responsible for the design, testing and coordination of domestic and international energy management system projects. In 1991, he joined School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore as Senior Lecturer and has been an Associate Professor (1999-2023). He was Deputy Head of Power Engineering Division, EEE, NTU (2008-14), EE Standards Committee Member of Singapore Standards Council (2014-21), Chairman of Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (Electrical) Sub-Committee for Professional Engineers Board Singapore (2015-21), and Co-Director, Singapore Power (SP) Group-NTU Joint Lab (2020-23). He served as Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Editor of IEEE Power Engineering Letters (2016-21). In 2021, he won Outstanding Associate Editor Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and Singapore, and a member of Energy Technical Committee, Institution of Engineers Singapore. He taught Energy Management System courses for dispatchers, engineers, managers and directors at Power System Control Centre in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. His current research interests include energy transition, renewable energy resources, peer-to-peer trading, and digitalizing energy. In 2023, his project team won the award from the Carbon Emission Reduction contest organized by OPAL-RT, https://www.opal-rt.com/co2-reduction-rt23/.