Affiliation: China Agricultural University, College of Information and Electrical Engineering,

Dr. Yingying Zheng is currently a Professor at the China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. Before that, she worked in the College of Engineering at Utah State University as a tenure-track assistant professor since Jun. 1, 2020. Before that, she worked at Utah State University as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining USU, Zheng worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. She received a doctoral degree in energy system engineering from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s degree in agricultural and biological engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Zheng is a member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and IEEE’s Power and Energy Society. Her research areas include energy system modeling and optimization, renewable energy conversion and integration, life cycle assessment, and engineering economics.