Yu Zhang
About
Yu Zhang is an Associate 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 smart power grids, optimization theory, deep learning and AI. Dr. Zhang has published in many leading journals in his research areas, including IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. Dr. Zhang received the Hellman Fellowship in 2019. He was the co-recipient of the Early Career Best Paper Award given by the Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) section of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2021, and the recipient of the IISE Energy Systems (ES) Division Outstanding Young Investigator Award in 2025.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
A Utility Function Based Low Complexity User Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-user MIMO Systems
Year: 2009
Citations: 0
Venue: Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University 43 (7)
Latest Recorded Paper
Efficient Knowledge Distillation via Salient Feature Masking
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: APL Machine Learning 4 (1)
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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