News and Highlights
[Apr. 2024] Huge congratulations to Logan Scott for successfully defending his MS thesis!
[Mar. 2024] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab, in collaboration with OU Parking and Transportation, was awarded $180k to install electric vehicle charging stations (Level 2 and DC fast chargers) on OU Norman campus. This is supported by ACOG’s Public Fleet Conversion Grants Program. Let's GO ELECTRIC!
[Jan. 2024] Congratulations to PhD students Yuichi Kajiura and Jorge Espin for the acceptance of their respective papers for presentations at 2024 American Control Conference (ACC)!
[Jan. 2024] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab has been awarded $2.3 millions by the Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office to deploy shared autonomous electric vehicles in Oklahoma tribal communities.
[Jan. 2024] ESCL has received funding from Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) for $218k to explore advanced imaging technologies applied to Li-ion batteries, in collaboration with Baker Hughes.
[Oct. 2023] Dr. Zhang has received funding for $292k by National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4 program to establish collaboration with Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) on next-generation batteries.
[Aug. 2023] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab welcomes graduate researcher Logan Scott.
[June 2023] Dr. Zhang attends Baker Hughes' Energy Frontiers Summit as a panelist for Advanced Sensors and Controls.
[Jan. 2023] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab welcomes PhD student Jorge Espin.
[Aug. 2022] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab welcomes PhD student Yuichi Kajiura.
[July 2022] Dr. Zhang completes the story on electric vehicles in the State of Oklahoma with The Oklahoma News Report.