Education
- PhD (Chemical Engineering): University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2020
- BS (Control Science and Engineering): Zhejiang University, China, 2016
Research Interests
- Chemical process control
- Machine learning
- Computational process modeling and simulation
- Process systems engineering
Selected Publications
Wu, Z., Tran, A., Rincon, D., Christofides, P. D. “Machine learning‐based predictive control of nonlinear processes. Part I: Theory.” AIChE Journal 65 (2019): e16729.
Wu, Z., Tran, A., Rincon, D., Christofides, P. D. “Machine learning‐based predictive control of nonlinear processes. Part II: Computational implementation.” AIChE Journal 65 (2019): e16734.
Wu, Z., Albalawi, F., Zhang, Z., Zhang, J., Durand, H., Christofides, P. D. “Control Lyapunov-barrier function-based model predictive control of nonlinear systems.” Automatica 109 (2019): 108508.
Wu, Z., Rincon, D., Christofides, P. D. “Real-time adaptive machine-learning-based predictive control of nonlinear processes.” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 59 (2019): 2275-2290.
Wu, Z., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Albalawi, F., Durand, H., Mahmood, M., Mhaskar, P. and Christofides, P.D. “ Economic model predictive control of stochastic nonlinear systems”. AIChE Journal, 64 (2018): 3312-3322.