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Yifu Zhang
I obtained my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2019, under the supervision of Prof.
Jorge Cortés. Before that, I received my B.Eng. in Automation
from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2014.
Currently I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg.
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Awards and Honors
Outstanding Graduate Student award, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego, USA, 2019
Grand Master, Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard Entertainment, Season 3, 2018
Jacobs School of Engineering Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2014-2015
Outstanding Graduate award, Heilongjiang Province, China, 2014
Outstanding Graduate award, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2014
China Development Bank Innovation Prize, China Development Bank, China, 2013
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, China, 2013
Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM), USA, 2013
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, China, 2012
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Patent
Y. Zhang and A. Dodda. Feasibility analysis for automatic programmatic generation of a lookup table
and automatic programmatic generation of the lookup table that conforms with an error tolerance. US
patent, 2022. Granted.
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Research and Selected Publications
I am boardly interested in control theory and numerical optimization.
Journal Papers
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Model predictive control for transient frequency regulation of power networks.
Automatica, 123:109335, 2021
J. Fang, J. Yu, Y. Zhang , and S. M. Goetz. A general solution to weak-grid-induced small-signal stability
problems of power converters. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 9(3):4558-
4572, 2021
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Distributed bilayered control for transient frequency safety and system stability
in power grids. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 7(3):1476-1488, 2020
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Distributed transient frequency control for power networks with stability and
performance guarantees. Automatica, 105:274-285, 2019 [video]
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Characterizing tolerable disturbances for transient-state safety in power networks.
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 6(3):210-224, 2019
W. Sun, Y. Zhang , Y. Huang, H. Gao, and O. Kaynak. Transient-performance-guaranteed robust adaptive
control and its application to precision motion control systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
63(10):6510-6518, 2016
T. Wang, Y. Zhang , J. Qiu, and H. Gao. Adaptive fuzzy backstepping control for a class of nonlinear
systems with sampled and delayed measurements. IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems, 23(2):302-312,
2015
W. Sun, H. Pan, Y. Zhang , and H. Gao. Multi-objective control for uncertain nonlinear active suspension
systems. Mechatronics, 24(4):32-40, 2014
Conference Papers
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Double-layered distributed transient frequency control with regional coordination
for power networks. In American Control Conference, pages 658-663, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Distributed transient frequency control in power networks. In IEEE Conf. on
Decision and Control, pages 4595-4600, Miami Beach, FL, December 2018
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Transient frequency control with regional cooperation for power networks. In
IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, pages 2587-2592, Miami Beach, FL, December 2018
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Transient-state feasibility set approximation of power networks against disturbances
of unknown amplitude. In American Control Conference, pages 2767-2772, Seattle, WA, May 2017
Y. Zhang and J. Cortés. Quantifying the robustness of power networks against initial failure. In European
Control Conference, pages 2072-2077, Aalborg, Denmark, July 2016
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