PhD Student (Year 3)

ZHANG Yongan 张永安

EIES-Lab · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Yongan Zhang is a third-year PhD student at EIES-Lab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research centres on large language model (LLM) agents for urban resilience and global energy systems. He builds agents that bring together heterogeneous data on cities, climate and energy infrastructure, reason with physics-grounded models, and support decisions on how urban energy systems prepare for, withstand and recover from extreme events. At the global scale, he studies hydro, wind and solar PV systems, using AI agents and time-series models to assess resources, forecast generation and inform planning toward low-carbon, resilient energy supply.

ZHANG Yongan

Research Interests

  1. 01LLM agents for urban resilience
  2. 02Global energy systems (hydro, wind and solar PV)
  3. 03AI agents for energy-system modelling and decision-making
  4. 04Time-series forecasting for renewable energy

Education

  1. 2024 – Present

    PhD in Building Environment and Energy Engineering

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  2. 2021 – 2024

    MS in Computer Science and Technology

    China University of Petroleum (East China)

  3. 2017 – 2021

    Bachelor's degree

    China University of Petroleum (Beijing)

Featured Publications

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Skills

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Awards

  1. 2023

    National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students

    Ministry of Education of China

  2. 2022

    National Second Prize, China Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Huawei Cup)

  3. 2020

    Honorable Mention, MCM/ICM

  4. 2019

    National Second Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling