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Updated as of May 1st, 2024

Research Interests

  • Control, learning, and optimization for energy systems
  • Artificial intelligence for sustainability

Education

  • PhD in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  • Mphil in Information Engineering
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • BSc in Mathematics
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • BEng in Information Engineering
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Experience

  • 2022 - Present
    Assistant Professor
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  • 2017-2022
    Research Assistant
    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  • 2021 Summer
    Research Scientist Intern
    Amazon Web Services
  • 2020 Summer
    Research Scientist Intern
    Amazon Web Services

Honors and Awards

  • 2021
    • 2021 Resnick Sustainability Institute Impact Grants
  • 2018-2022
    • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 2014
    • Professor Charles K. Kao Research Exchange Scholarship (Around 10/2000 engineering students per year)
  • 2013, 2014
    • Dean’s List of Science Faculty (Top 10%/all students in the double-degree program)
  • 2013, 2014
    • Head’s List of United College (Top 1/all college students in the double-degree program)
  • 2014
    • HKSAR Government Scholarship
  • 2014
    • Undergraduate Mathematics Scholarship (At most 2 students per year)
  • 2014
    • T C Cheng Scholarship
  • 2013
    • Wu Chung Scholarship

Patent

  • Systems and Methods for Adaptive EV Charging (US11376981B2)
  • Zachary J Lee, Tongxin Li, Steven H Low, Sunash B Sharma