About
Dr. Yao Zhang is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Maritime Engineering within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Dr Yao Zhang is 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 Fellow of HEA. She is in committee of IEEE UK and Ireland Control Systems Chapter and an IEEE WIE Ambassodor 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
Supervision
Current PhD Students
Teaching
Module lead:
SESS1200 Induction for Ship Science
Module tutor:
SESS6067 Renewable Energy from Environmental Flows: wind, wave and tide
FEEG1201 An Introduction to Engineering Design
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Dr. Yao Zhang obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. 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. She is an Associate Editor of IET Generation, Transmission, and Distribution (JCR Q2, IF: 3.005) and Sustainable Marine Structures.