Shangyan Zou
Contact
- shangyan@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2129
- R. L. Smith 802
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University
Biography
Dr. Zou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Michigan Technological University (MTU). Prior to this appointment in 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University (OSU) from 2021 to 2022. And he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU) before joining the Pacific Marine Energy Center at OSU (from 2018 to 2021). He received his PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at MTU in 2018. Dr. Zou has research interests in dynamics and control with applications to ocean renewables, multi-agent systems (autonomy), machine learning, optimization, and state estimation. Dr. Zou has a strong interest in making renewable energy more economically viable in the future energy market. He currently serves as the guest editor of the special issue of the journal Electronics. In addition, he also serves as the session chair of the 16th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (IFAC-MoVic 2022).
Areas of Expertise
- Dynamics and Control
- Wave-Structure Interaction
- Multi-Agent Systems
- State Estimation
Research Interests
- Dynamics modeling and control of ocean renewable systems
- Swarm behavior of networked marine energy systems
- Fluid-structure interaction of soft ocean energy converters
- Control and automation of unmanned underwater vehicles