His major research areas are as follows, traveling waves-based protection, travelling waves-based-fault location, traveling waves-based-fault line selection, non-communication protection, UHV transmission line’s protection, intelligent substation, system protection, and application research on wavelet transform.
Prof. Dong undertook the State Key R&D Plan Project, finished the Major International Collaborative Project of NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation), the Key Project of NSFC, Tsinghua-ALSTOM Research Center on Protection and Control etc..
Prof. Dong has published over 400 papers, 7 books with co-authors. He holds 25 international patents, 77 Chinese patents. He has received numerous awards from the government and the societies, including the 2020 Chinese National Innovation Award, State Technological Invention Award of the Chinese government (2nd Prize) respectively in 2017 and 2007, 4 Science and Technology Award from Beijing government or CSEE(all 1st Prize). Since 2017 he was named the Chinese Highly Cited Researcher by Elsevier.