About
She is a Lecturer (B) in Maritime Engineering within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
She is a Deputy Editor of Ocean Engineering (JCR Q1), an Assocaite Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (JCR Q1), and an Associate Editor of IET Generation, Transmission, & Distribution (JCR Q2). She is also on the editorial board of Sustainable Marine Structures. She is also a member of IEEE and a Fellow of HEA. She is on committee of the IEEE UK and Ireland Control Systems Chapter and an IEEE WIE Ambassador in UK and Ireland Section.
PhD oppurtunity is now available -- Full scholarship for home and international students (tuition fee + stipend). Please contact me directly via email yao.zhang@soton.ac.uk.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Learning-based Control and optimization
- Renewable energy
- Control applications to marine systems (wave energy converters, launch and recovery systems, underwaters)
- Guidance, Navigation, and Control for autonomous systems
Research projects
Publications
Teaching
Module lead:
SESS1200 Induction for Ship Science
SESS6067 Renewable Energy from Environmental Flows: wind, wave and tide
Module tutor:
FEEG1201 An Introduction to Engineering Design
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Before joining University of Southampton in 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London from 2017 to 2020 and a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University at Newcastle from 2020 to 2022. Her research interests include robust model predictive control, sliding mode control and observation, learning-based control, and control applications to marine engineering, wave energy, etc. She has published more than 30 journal papers, including IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and 10 conference papers.