Dr. Zhang Ying, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, USA, welcomes visiting scholars and recruits full-scholarship doctoral students for fall 2024/spring 2025，The research direction is 1) Optimal control of power distribution system operation under the penetration of high proportion of renewable resources，2) Application of data mining and artificial intelligence in Cyber-Physical-Social power system，and 3) Power system resilience under climate change and extreme weather。

PhD candidate application qualifications:

·Have electrical engineering and computer engineering related background and self-motivation for research，GPA>3.0

·Have a certain mathematical foundation，Proficient in at least one programming language and optimization software: Matlab/Simulink, Python etc.

·In 1) Power system modeling、Simulation、Run、Analysis or 2) Application Optimization、Machine Learning、Has past research experience in solving engineering problems with deep learning

·English must reach IELTS 6.5 or equivalent TOEFL level

Priority:

·Will or has obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering and automation and related majors

·Published journal articles included in SCI/EI，Have certain English writing skills

If interested, please send resume and representative papers to emailimyingzhang@ieee.orgAnd indicate the email subject: PhDApplication/VisitingScholar。

Instructor background: Dr. Zhang Ying received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University in 2014 and 2017，Earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University in 2020。Currently an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, USA。

Before joining OSU，She is a postdoctoral researcher in the Interdisciplinary Science Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and an invited visiting scholar at Cornell University。Her research interests include optimization based on high proportion of renewable energy penetration，Data Mining，And artificial intelligence power system situational awareness and control。The research team is currently focusing on cross-science based on power grid (data science,Climate Science，and social sciences) research。She won the National Scholarship from the Ministry of Education，2017 Excellent Master’s Thesis of Shandong University (Research on Fault Location of Complex Transmission Lines), Southern Methodist UniversityE. Terman Award for Graduate Students and Moody Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship，And the 2023 IEEE PES Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (Research on Model and Data-Driven Situation Awareness Monitoring of Distribution Systems，Established for 2020-2022 PhD graduates in the field of electrical energy，Four selected from the global selection)。She has published in several journals in the field of electrical engineering (IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, etc.) and the artificial intelligence journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems published more than 30 academic works, Includes one ESI global top 1% most cited paper。Dr. Zhang Ying currently serves as IET Generation, Transmission & Associate Editor of Distribution and Guest Editor of Applied Sciences。She is a member of the IEEE Distribution System State Estimation Working Group,IEEE Data-driven Distribution System Modeling and Monitoring Working Group，IEEE Association of Women Data Scientists，IEEE Electrical Energy Society Association of Women Engineers，IEEEPESDistribution Systems Analysis Subcommittee，As well as IEEE Young Professional member and Vice Chairman of the IEEE Electrical Energy Society PSOPE Awards Committee (2024-2028)。

School Profile: Oklahoma State University is one of the 146 R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity universities in the United States selected by the Carnegie Association for Higher Education。The school is open and inclusive，Extensive international cooperation，We have cooperative education projects with many domestic universities。The Graduate Program of the School of Engineering, where the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is located, ranks among the top 50 in the United States，Every year, doctoral graduates receive teaching offers from American universities。The research team is currently closely connected with the U.S. industry and the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories，The state develops its energy economy with its abundant natural gas and oil minerals，Many job and internship opportunities。