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Peter Zhang

Academic Background:

• 2013 - present • MIT, Engineering Systems Division (PhD)
• 2011 - 2013 • University of Toronto, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MASc)
• 2005 - 2011  • University of Toronto, Engineering Science (BASc)

Work Experience:

• 2009 - 2010 • Deckchair Learning Inc. • Toronto, Canada 
  Title: Java developer for an adaptive learning software.
• 2007 • HealthSpoke Inc. • Toronto, Canada 
  Title: .NET developer for an online health and wellness network.

Research Domain:

Supply chain resilience

Research Methodology:

Optimization

Publications:

Journal Articles

Turner, S. D. O., Romero, D., Zhang, P. Y., Amon, C. H., Chan, T. C. Y. A new mathematical programming approach to optimizing wind farm layouts. Volume 63, March 2014, Pages 674-680, Renewable Energy.

Zhang, P. Y., Romero, D., Beck, J. C., Amon, C. Solving Wind farm layout optimization with mixed integer programs and constraint programs (submitted to , EURO Journal on Computational Optimization).

Kwong, P., Zhang, P. Y., Romero, D., Moran, J., Morgenroth, M., and Amon, C. Multi-objective wind farm layout optimization with non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) (submitted to ASME , Journal of Mechanical Design).

Refereed Conference Articles

Zhang, P. Y., Metcalfe, M., Cheng, Y.-L. Redefining affluence in China: carbon emission from private transportation. The 3rd Climate Change Technology Conference, Montreal, Quebec, May 27-29, 2013.

Zhang, P. Y., Romero, D., Beck, J. C., Amon, C. Solving wind farm layout optimization with mixed-integer programming and constraint programming. CPAIOR 2013: 10th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, May 18-22, 2013.

Kwong, P., Zhang, P. Y., Romero, D., Moran, J., Morgenroth, M., and Amon, C. Wind farm layout optimization considering energy generation and noise propagation. Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Chicago, Illinois, August 12-15, 2012.