Shot at CUHK, Oct 2019
Hello! I am Hongyu Yi (pronounced “Hong-yoo Ee”), a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a 2026-2027 Clean Energy Institute Graduate Fellow at the University of Washington, advised by Jing Yu. I received my M.Phil. in Computer and Information Engineering and B.Sc. in Mathematics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), where I worked with Chenye Wu.
My research interests lie in learning, control, and optimization theory with applications in energy and transportation systems. Additionally, I collaborate closely with Chenbei Lu.
Email: hyyi [at] uw [dot] edu
Address: ECE 203, 185 W Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Our paper with C. Lu on chance-constrained MDPs has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026. See you in Atlanta! Preprint available on arXiv.
Glad to receive the IEEE CDC Student Travel & Workshop Support. Thanks to IEEE Control Systems Society.
Honored to receive the UW CEI Graduate Fellowship. Thanks to UW CEI for the support!
Our paper with C. Lu and J. Yu on bilinear systems identification has been jointly accepted to IEEE L-CSS & IEEE CDC. See you in Hawaii! Preprint available on arXiv.
You can reach my publication list on my Google Scholar.
Chenbei Lu, Hongyu Yi, "Learning Chance-Constrained MDPs with Bellman Distributional Certificates," accepted to 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026).
Hongyu Yi, Chenbei Lu, Jing Yu, "Achieving Õ(1/ε) Sample Complexity for Bilinear Systems Identification under Bounded Noises," in IEEE Control Systems Letters (jointly accepted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2026).
Hongyu Yi*, Chenbei Lu*, Chenye Wu, "On the Optimal Deterministic Policy Learning in Chance-constrained Markov Decision Processes," in IEEE Control Systems Letters.
Chenbei Lu, Hongyu Yi, Jiahao Zhang, Chenye Wu, "Self-improving Online Storage Control for Stable Wind Power Commitment," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Hongyu Yi, Chenbei Lu, “Optimal CHEH Scheduling with Uncertain Solar, Wind and Geothermal Generation: A Robust Optimization Approach with Statistical Feasibility,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
Hongyu Yi, Chenbei Lu, Chenye Wu, "Online Storage Control for Stable Wind Power Commitment via Lyapunov Optimization," in IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference 2023 (iSPEC 2023).
Chenbei Lu, Jinhao Liang, Hongyu Yi, Chenye Wu, "Cost-effective Closed-loop Bilevel Robust Optimization for Joint Chance-constrained Economic Dispatch," in 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy 2025).
Update: Sep., 2026