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Yu Zhang

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Title

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Telephone Number

831-459-2921 (Office)

Office Location

Baskin Engineering, Room 243

Mail Stop

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Biography

Yu Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department of UC Santa Cruz. Prior to joining UCSC, he was a postdoc at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Zhang's research interests span the broad areas of cyber-physical systems, smart power grids, optimization theory, machine learning and big data analytics.

Research Areas

Smart grids, cyber-physical systems, machine learning, big data analytics, optimization, operations research, wireless communications, and signal processing.

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Degree

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2015, University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 2010, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, 2006, Wuhan University of Technology

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