Hongzhong Zhu

PhD in Electrical Engineering

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

• Nonlinear friction compensation for high-precision motion system.
• Quantization noise suppression for servo-performance enhancement.
• Convex optimization.
• Industry-Academia Collaboration.
  • Development of next generation of ball-screw stage.
  • High-precision control of linear stage.

Master in Informatics

Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

• Quantized output reconstruction of linear system for feedback control.
• Convex optimization.

Bachelor in Energy and Mechanical Engineering

Shanghai Unviersity of Electric Power, Shanghai, PRC

• Two-phase flow in bending pipe.
• Energy conversion in boiler and steam turbine.

Associate Professor of Offshore Renewable Energy

Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University

• Floating type hybrid wind-wave conversion system
• Digital twins of floating offshore wind turbine
• Optimal design of floating structures
• Multi-body dynamics
• Motion control

Senior Engineering of Floating Offshore Wind

OWC | ABL Group

• Floater engineering design (steel, concrete) for FOWT
• Market study of Global floating offshore wind

Assistant Professor of Offshore Renewable Energy

Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University

• Multi-body ship towing system
• Floating offshore overhead power transmission system
• Floating shrouded wind turbine

Research fellow of Offshore Renewable Energy

Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University

• Multi-body ship towing system
• Floating offshore overhead power transmission system

Assistant professor of Renewable Energy

Transdisciplinary Research and Education Center for Green Technologies, Kyushu University

• Drivetrain damper for wind turbine
• Floating type hybrid wind-wave energy conversion system
• Floating shrouded wind turbine

Assistant professor of Renewable Energy

Research and Education Center for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Systems, Kyushu University

• Drivetrain damper for wind turbine
• Floating type hybrid wind-wave energy conversion system
• Floating shrouded wind turbine

Research fellow of Motion Control

Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

• Design and control of next generation ball-screw stages

Research Assistant of Motion Control

Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

• High-precision control of linear stages and ball-screw stages

Teaching Assistant of feedback Control

Graduate school of Informatics, Kyoto University

Engineer of Supercritical Thermal Power Plant

Zhejiang Beilun Power Plant, China Guodian Group

• O&M of supercritical thermal power plant

• Best Paper Award @ 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC2018), Co-author

• Best Dissertation of the Department of Electrical Engineering
• Outstanding Self-supporting International Student (China Scholarship Council)
• Research Award by the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc

• Best Session Paper @ the 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2013)
• Control Division Young Author's Award by SICE Control Division
• IEEJ Industry Applications Society Excellent Presentation Award

• Best Session Paper @ the 38th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2012)

• AEON scholarship

• Shanghai Outstanding Graduate