I am an assistant professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta. I also lead the Aπe group working on artificial intelligence for physical and energy systems. In my research, I focus on the intersection between machine learning, control, and optimization, 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. 

I was fortunate to work with Baosen Zhang and get my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Washington in 2021; and my undergraduate degrees in Automation from Chu Kochen College at Zhejiang University in 2016. I was also a postdoc researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab from 2021 to 2022 and part of the Berkeley Lab Cybersecurity R&D for Science and Energy. Previously, I held a tenure-track position at AI Thrust, Information Hub at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST. From 2023 to 2024, I also worked as an analyst in Advanced Technology Solutions group at ISO New England. Here is my CV. 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. Our works have been recognized worldwide, and received several best paper and prize paper awards at ICML Co-BUILD Workshop (2025), IEEE PES General Meeting (2024, 2022), Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) (2020), and ACM e-Energy (2019).