I am currently an assistant professor at AI Thrust, Information Hub at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST. In my research, I focus on the intersection between control, optimization and machine learning, and I am interested in designing cyber-physical systems especially power systems with performance guarantees. I am committed to achieving sustainable and autonomous clean energy systems. 

Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Washington in 2021, advised by Baosen Zhang; and my undergraduate degrees in Automation from Chu Kochen College at Zhejiang University in 2016. I was a postdoc researcher at the Computing Sciences Area of Berkeley Lab from 2021 to 2022, working closely with Daniel Arnold and Sean Peisert. I was part of the Berkeley Lab Cybersecurity R&D for Science and Energy. Here is my CV (last update Nov 2022). I have also held research positions at Microsoft Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Harvard Medical School, working on a set of problems related to data centers, power grid infrastructures, biological dynamics and built environment.

yizechen@lbl.gov; yizechen@ust.hk 

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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)