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PhD Candidate in Engineering at the University of Cambridge, with research interests in data-driven and robust control, energy markets, and language-informed decision-making for energy systems.

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Education

University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in Engineering

Oct. 2023 - Present

  • Fully Funded PhD Scholarship
  • Supervisor: Prof. Ioannis Lestas
  • Research interests: data-driven control, robust control, and market-aware decision-making for energy systems

Tsinghua University

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2023

  • Fully Funded
  • Supervisor: Associate Prof. Ye Guo
  • Overall GPA: 3.96/4.0, Rank: 3/114
  • Honors: Departmental Scholarship (Top 5%)

North China Electric Power University

B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Automation

Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020

  • Major GPA: 90.27/100, Overall GPA: 89.92/100
  • Honors: First-Class Scholarship (Top 6%)

Awards, Grants, and Scholarships

Fully Funded PhD Scholarship, University of Cambridge

2023 - Present

Churchill College Opportunities Fund Grant

2026

Department of Engineering Travel Grant, University of Cambridge

2026, 2025

Cambridge Trust Travel Fund

2026

IEEE CDC Student Travel Grant

2025

Departmental Scholarship, Tsinghua University

2021, 2022

Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)

2018

Teaching Experience

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lab Demonstrator / Senior Lab Demonstrator

Oct. 2023, 2024, 2025

  • Demonstrated undergraduate control laboratories, including Vehicle Motion Control (I2) and Position Control (I3)
  • Guided students in feedback control implementation, tuning, and experimental analysis
  • Served as Senior Lab Demonstrator in 2025, supporting coordination of junior demonstrators

Tsinghua University, China

Teaching Assistant, Power Systems and Market Operation

Feb. 2022 - Jul. 2022

  • Assisted with teaching, grading, and examination administration for a graduate-level course
  • Supported a simulation-based project on electricity market operation

Academic Service and Leadership

Reviewer

  • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
  • IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, United Kingdom

Organising Committee Member, Division F Conference

Oct. 2025

  • Helped coordinate keynote sessions and programme planning for the Division F conference

Cambridge Philosophical Society, United Kingdom

Fellow

Oct. 2025 - Present

Tsinghua University, China

Founder, Energy Internet Association (Graduate College)

Nov. 2020 - Jun. 2023

  • Founded and led a graduate academic association focused on energy and networked systems

Selected Research Experience

National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China

Research Contributor

Mar. 2021 - Jun. 2021

  • Contributed to comparative studies on integrated and multi-energy systems for policy-oriented analysis under carbon-neutrality targets

China Southern Power Grid Corporation, China

Research Assistant

Oct. 2020 - Oct. 2021

  • Worked on unified modelling and optimisation methods for coupled electricity, heat, and gas systems

China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd., China

Research Intern, AI Research and Development Center

Nov. 2021 - Jan. 2022

  • Studied data-driven methods for oscillation source identification in large-scale dynamical systems

Research Methods and Tools

Coupled energy systems and markets

  • Modelling and optimisation of coupled power-heat systems, market-aware operation, and operational decision-making under uncertainty

Control and optimisation under uncertainty

  • Data-driven, robust, and stochastic control of large-scale dynamical systems, with experience in reinforcement learning and H-infinity / loop-shaping design

Forecasting and contextual decision support

  • Electricity price forecasting, forecast correction, time-series analysis, prediction-in-the-loop methods, multimodal and language-informed forecasting, and embedding-based retrieval

Programming

  • Python, MATLAB, C, SQL

Languages

  • Chinese (native), English (fluent)