Baskin School of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Engineering Building 2
547B
SOE2
- Yu Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department of UC Santa Cruz. Prior to joining UCSC, he was a postdoc at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Zhang's research interests span the broad areas of cyber-physical systems, smart power grids, optimization theory, machine learning and big data analytics. Yu Zhang has published in many of the leading journals in his research areas including IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. Dr. Zhang received the Hellman Fellowship in 2019. He was the co-recipient of the Early Career Best Paper Award given by the Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) section of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2021.
- Power systems
- Smart grids
- Machine learning
- Data analytics
- Optimization
- Operations research
- Data centers
- Transportation
- Wireless communications
- Signal processing
- Load Restoration in Islanded Microgrids: Formulation and Solution Strategies
- Physics-guided Residual Learning for Probabilistic Power Flow Analysis
- MATNilm: Multi-appliance-task Non-intrusive Load Monitoring with Limited Labeled Data
- A Unifying Framework of Attention-based Neural Load Forecasting
- Conic Relaxations for Power System State Estimation with Line Measurements
- Distributed Stochastic Market Clearing with High-Penetration Wind Power
- Robust Workload and Energy Management for Sustainable Data Centers
- Electricity Market Forecasting via Low-Rank Multi-Kernel Learning
- Robust Energy Management for Microgrids With High-Penetration Renewables