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Dr. Rachel Zhang is a Scientia Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland in 2009 and completed her PhD at the University of Newcastle in 2014. Her research focuses on power system stability assessment and control, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy integration and energy storage systems. She leads a research team dedicated to developing novel data-driven, AI-based methodologies to enable reliable, resilient, and intelligent operation of future power grids. Dr. Zhang has received several prestigious awards, including the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC DECRA) in 2022. She is actively involved in teaching and supervises multiple PhD students, guiding them in areas of real-time data-driven emergency control, artificial intelligence applications in power systems, and energy storage system optimization. Dr. Zhang is known for her innovative approaches to complex energy challenges and is recognized as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford for her contributions to the field of electrical engineering. Her collaborative projects often seek to advance urban clean energy distribution and improve the reliability of power systems in the face of increasing uncertainty and variability.
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney • Sydney, Australia
Lecturer focusing on power system stability assessment and control, integrating renewable energy solutions.
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