Welcome
Hello, welcome to my website! I am Junpeng Zhan (pronounce: June-pen), an Assistant Professor in Renewable Energy Engineering, Inamori School of Engineering, Alfred University, NY, USA.
I earned my Bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2009 and 2014, respectively, supervised by Prof. Chuangxin Guo. I was a Research Associate Electrical Engineer in the Renewables and Grid Analysis Group, Department of Sustainable Energy Technologies (changed to Interdisciplinary Science Department now), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, U.S.A. from Aug. 2018 to Jul. 2020. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, both advised by Prof. C. Y. Chung, and a Visiting Research Assistant at the University of Liverpool, U.K.
I enjoy teaching and doing research at the university. I am an Associate Editor of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution and an active reviewer for 18 different journals. My research goal is to solve the challenging science and engineering problems in the power and energy fields by developing innovative and applicable methods. I am particularly interested in NP-complete problems which are one of the most important but unsolved problems in computer science and mathematics. To solve this problem, I have recently proposed a Quantum Feasibility Labeling algorithm and a hybrid classical and quantum algorithm, Variational Quantum Search. I am very excited that these two algorithms together could have provided an efficient solution to an NP-complete problem - the Vertex Coloring problem (see my publication [J25-J26]), which would be a significant milestone if they are proven to be valid.
Current Research Interest:
Quantum Computing
Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Optimization Methods
Smart Grid Technologies
Large-scale Integration of Renewable Energy Sources
Power System Cybersecurity & Resiliency
Modeling, Planning & Operation of Power and Energy Systems
Opportunities:
I am looking for a new fully-funded student, please email all your documents (including but not limited to transcripts and CV) in a single PDF to Dr. Zhan via zhanj@alfred.edu
A Postdoc position in Machine Learning for materials (high-temperature ceramics), see this job link for more information [https://www.alfred.edu/jobs-at-alfred/]
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Hobbies: doing exercises to keep me energetic (such as jogging, table tennis, pull ups and push ups, swimming, hiking, basketball, badminton, Pool), photographing, playing with my kids, learning new things (such as skiing, piano), Toastmasters, etc.