Yize Chen, PhD
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yizechen/home
Contact
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
- yize.chen@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-3816
- Address
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11-351 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 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).
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.
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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