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Jianhua Zhang

Jianhua Zhang

Jianhua Zhang

Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Eng

Email: jzhang@clarkson.edu
Office: 144 CAMP Building
Mailbox: CU Box 5720
Website: Jianhua Zhang's Research Website

Department(s): Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School(s): Coulter School of Engineering
Education
Industrial Automation BS - 2002
Jimei University, Xiamen, China
Systems Engineering MS - 2005
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Electrical Engineering MS - 2010
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D - 2016
North Carolina State University
Biography

Jianhua (Jessica) Zhang’s research goal is to understand the behavior of cyber-physical power and energy systems and to bridge the gap between power systems and data information and communication networks. Distributed optimization and control theory, and data-driven methods are used as our research tools to discover algorithms and applications.  Large-scale cyber-physical co-simulations and real-time Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulation is another focus of our lab.  Zhang received her PhD from North Carolina State University. Before joining Clarkson University, she worked at National Renewable Energy Laboratory as a Postdoc Research Fellow.

Research Interests

Smart grid cyber-physical systems and Grid integration of renewable energy resources, specifically in: 

  • Distributed cyber physical algorithms 
  • Cyber-physical co-simulation
  • Cyber-physical HIL test 
  • Monitoring and control of large-scale renewable energy systems 
  • Smart grid communications 
Awards

Best Internet Application in Energy Award, US Ignite, 2014

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  • Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering
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  • Institute for STEM Education
  • Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries

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