Dong Zhang

Assistant Professor

Email: dzhang@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-5343
Office: Felgar Hall 204
Office Hours: By appointment only
Lab Site: Energy Systems and Controls Lab (ESCL)

Education
Ph.D., Systems Engineering (2020)
University of California, Berkeley
M.S., Systems Engineering (2016)
University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering (2015)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering (2015)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Focus

Energy storage systems: renewable energy, electrochemical modeling, battery management systems
Dynamic systems and control: optimal control, system identification, state estimation, PDE control
Electrified transportation: electric vehicles energy management, autonomous vehicles
Data-driven decision making: machine learning, physics-informed neural networks

Experience and Awards

NSF CAREER Award: Control of Batteries with Composite Electrodes
ASME Energy System ACC Best Paper Award
2020 American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, USA

Professional Activities and Organizations

Postdoctoral Research Associate (08/2020-08/2021)
Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
ASME Energy Systems Technical Committee
ASME Technical Committee on Distributed Parameter Systems

Recent Publications

Zhang, Dong, et al. "State estimation of solid-state batteries via a distributed parameter electrochemical model." Automatica.
Kajiura, Yuichi, Jorge Espin, and Dong Zhang. "Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Discovering Systems with Unmeasurable States with Application to Lithium-Ion Batteries." American Control Conference (ACC). IEEE.
Espin, Jorge, Yuichi Kajiura, and Dong Zhang. "Safety-Driven Battery Charging: A Fisher Information-guided Adaptive MPC with Real-time Parameter Identification." IFAC.
Espin, Jorge, Yuichi Kajiura, and Dong Zhang. "Deep-MPC: A DAGGER-Driven Imitation Learning Strategy for Optimal Constrained Battery Charging." American Control Conference (ACC). IEEE.
Zhang, Dong, et al. "Battery internal temperature estimation via a semilinear thermal PDE model." Automatica.
Zhang, Dong, et al. "Beyond battery state of charge estimation: Observer for electrode-level state and cyclable lithium with electrolyte dynamics." IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.