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Peter Zhang

Academic Background:

• 2013 - present • MIT, Engineering Systems Division (PhD)
  • Advisor: David Simchi-Levi. 
  • Doctoral Committee: Stephen Graves, David Simchi-Levi, Nikolaos Trichakis.
• 2011 - 2013 • University of Toronto, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MASc)
  • Advisor: Cristina Amon.
  • Thesis committee: Cristina Amon, Christopher Beck, Timothy Chan, David Romero.
• 2005 - 2011  • University of Toronto, Engineering Science (BASc)
  • Thesis advisor: Yu-Ling Cheng.

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 disruption

Research Methodology:

Optimization

Publications:

Journal Articles

Simchi-Levi, D., Schmidt, W., Wei, Y., Zhang, P. Y., Combs, K., Ge, Y., Gusikhin, O., Sander, M., Zhang, D. Identifying Risks and Mitigation Disruptions in the Automotive Supply Chain. Forthcoming, Interfaces.

• Winner of 2014 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.

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, 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), 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.