Zhao Yuan
Dr. Zhao Yuan is a Senior Scientist and Program Manager (PI) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Iceland from 2021 to 2023 and as a Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) from 2019 to 2021. He received the joint PhD degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Comillas Pontifical University (COMILLAS) and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in 2018. Zhao proposed and proved the solution existence-and-uniqueness theorems of the convex optimal power flow (OPF) model based on second-order cone programming (SOCP). He led the development of the Energy Management System (EMS) of the 560kWh/720kVA Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on EPFL campus and co-developed the Smart Grid in Aigle Switzerland in 2020. Zhao was awarded the China National Second Prize in Mathematical Modelling in 2010.
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Dr. Jingxuan Peng, Research Fellow. PhD from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Research area: energy market and fuel cell.
Yuxuan Wang, Visiting Researcher from Hunan University. Bachelor’s degree from North China Electric Power University in 2019. Master’s degree from Guangxi University in 2022. Research interests include risk prediction for distribution networks, and resilience-oriented power system operation.
Liyin Zhang, Visiting Researcher from Xi'an Jiaotong University. B.E. degree and M.S. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2020 and 2022 respectively. Research area: power system resilience.
Yiliu He, Visiting Researcher from Tsinghua University. B.E degree from Tsinghua University in 2021.
Ziqing Guo, Visiting Researcher from Shanghai Jiaotong University. B.E. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2021.
Yigong Zhang, Visiting Researcher from Chongqing University. B.S. and M.S. degree from Chongqing University, 2018 and 2021.
Dr. Yao Wang, Visiting Researcher from Southwest Minzu University. Research area: power electronics.
Dr. Junkai Huang, Research Fellow at EPSLab 2024-2025.
Zhihao He, Visiting Researcher at EPSLab in 2024-2025 from Zhejiang University.
Yuanyi Chen, Visiting Researcher at EPSLab in 2024 from Zhejiang University. B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2020.
Peiyao Guo received the Master's degree from Tianjin University in 2020 and the Bachelor's degree from China University of Mining and Technology. She is a doctoral student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany. Peiyao is jointly supervised by Prof. Vedran Perić and Prof. Zhao Yuan from 2021 to 2023.
Matthias Heider received the Bachelor's degree from Institute of technology in Gif-sur-Yvette (IUT d'Orsay) in 2020. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree from École nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai (IMT Nord Europe) in France. Matthias was a visiting master student at the University of Iceland in 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Zhao Yuan.
Dr. Bin Zhao, Postdoc, EPSLab at the University of Iceland in 2022. Supervised by Prof. Jakob Sigurðsson and Dr. Zhao Yuan.