Mechanical Engineer Garners Best Paper Award

Dr. Jie Zhang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, received a best paper award at the 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, held last month in Chicago.

Zhang attended the conference with graduate student Cong Feng, the lead author of “Short-term Global Horizontal Irradiance Forecasting Based on Sky Imaging and Pattern Recognition,” which was chosen in the category for Power System Planning, Operation, and Electricity Markets. Research associate Mingjian Cui and mechanical engineering senior Meredith Lee were also co-authors of the paper, which concerned improving short-term solar power forecasting for power system operations.

Zhang directs the Design and Optimization of Energy Systems (DOES) Laboratory, which focuses on renewable energy, energy management, power systems, big data analytics and complex engineered systems.