Yize Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept

Personal Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G1NiRmwAAAAJ&hl=en

Contact

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
Email
yize.chen@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-3816
Address
11-351 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 St
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H5

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Energy Systems Control Systems Machine Learning Optimization Cyber-Physical Systems


About

Yize Chen joined the University of Alberta in the summer of 2024. He got his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Washington in 2021; and his undergraduate degree from Chu Kochen College at Zhejiang University in 2016. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Computing Sciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He has also held multiple research positions at ISO New England, Microsoft Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Harvard Medical School, working on a set of novel projects related to data centers, power grid infrastructures, biological dynamics and the built environment. Previously he was an assistant professor at Artificial Intelligence Thrust of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST. 

Yize’s research focuses on the intersection between control, optimization and machine learning, and he is interested in designing cyber-physical systems, especially power systems with performance guarantees. He is also committed to achieving sustainable and autonomous clean energy systems. He is also a recipient of several best paper and prize paper awards at IEEE PES General Meeting (2024, 2022), Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) (2020), and ACM e-Energy (2019).

Personal Website


Research

Yize's current research interests include:

  • Data-driven decision-making (Reinforcement learning, robust and uncertainty-aware optimization, cyber-physical systems and etc)
  • Efficient and sustainable power systems (carbon-aware planning and operations, power system modeling, monitoring and control and etc)
  • Control and optimization theories and applications

Announcements

I am always looking for highly motivated students to join my group and work in the cutting edge areas of data-driven control and optimization methods, power and energy systems, and machine learning. Please drop me an email with your research interests and related background.

Courses

ECE 430 - Power System Analysis

Transmission line design parameters; power flow computations; Generator control systems, load frequency control; economic operation of power systems; Symmetrical components theory; Symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis. Prerequisite: ECE 330 or E E 330. Corequisite: ECE 332 or E E 332. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 430 or E E 430.


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Featured Publications

Yize Chen, Deepjyoti Deka, Yuanyuan Shi

ACM e-Energy. 2024 June; 10.1145/3632775.3639591


Siyang Li, Hui Xiong, Yize Chen

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 2024 January; 10.1109/TSG.2024.3360874


Yuxin Pan, Yize Chen, Fangzhen Lin

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2023 December;


Chi Zhang, Yuanyuan Shi, Yize Chen

ACM e-Energy. 2023 June; 10.1145/3575813.3576877


Yufan Zhang, Honglin Wen, Tao Feng, Yize Chen

2022 December; 10.36227/techrxiv.21699599


Yize Chen, Ling Zhang, Baosen Zhang

Electric Power Systems Research. 2022 December; 10.1016/j.epsr.2022.108595


Ling Zhang, Yize Chen, Baosen Zhang

IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 2022 June; 10.1109/TCNS.2021.3124283


Yize Chen, Yuanyuan Shi, Baosen Zhang

Electric Power Systems Research. 2020 December; 10.1016/j.epsr.2020.106741


Xu-Wen Wang, Yize Chen, Yang-Yu Liu

iScience. 2020 October; 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101626


IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems . 2020 September; 10.1109/TCNS.2021.3124283


Jesus E. Contreras-Ocana, Yize Chen, Uzma Siddiqi, Baosen Zhang

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. 2020 July; 10.1109/TSTE.2019.2922882


2020 June;


Yize Chen, Yuanyuan Shi, Baosen Zhang

International Conference on Learning Representations. 2019 May;


Yize Chen; Yushi Tan; Deepjyoti Deka

IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm). 2018 August; 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2018.8587547


Yize Chen; Yishen Wang; Daniel Kirschen; Baosen Zhang

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 2018 January; 10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2794541


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