News and Highlights

[Aug. 2024] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab welcomes PhD student Mehrab Hasan! 

[June 2024] Congratulations to PhD student Jorge Espin for the acceptance of his paper, entitled "Safety-Driven Battery Charging: A Fisher Information-guided Adaptive MPC with Real-time Parameter Identification", for presentation at the 2024 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC)!

[May 2024] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab has received $88k funding from the Translational Research Projects (TRPs) under the Accelerating Research Translation program from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our team will study prognostics for second-life batteries. ESCL PhD students Yuichi Kajiura and Jorge Espin are leading the efforts.

[Apr. 2024] Huge congratulations to Logan Scott for successfully defending his MS thesis!

[Mar. 2024] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab, in collaboration with OU Parking and Transportation, was awarded $180k to install electric vehicle charging stations (Level 2 and DC fast chargers) on OU Norman campus. This is supported by ACOG’s Public Fleet Conversion Grants Program. Let's GO ELECTRIC!

[Mar. 2024] Dr. Zhang, along with colleagues from Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded $30k from the AME Research Equipment Program to fund the acquisition of a glovebox for battery research.

[Jan. 2024] Congratulations to PhD students Yuichi Kajiura and Jorge Espin for the acceptance of their respective papers for presentations at 2024 American Control Conference (ACC)!

[Jan. 2024] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab has been awarded $2.3 millions by the Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office to deploy shared autonomous electric vehicles in Oklahoma tribal communities. 

[Jan. 2024] ESCL has received funding from Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) for $218k to explore advanced imaging technologies applied to Li-ion batteries, in collaboration with Baker Hughes.

[Oct. 2023] Dr. Zhang has received funding for $292k by National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4 program to establish collaboration with Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) on next-generation batteries. Highlights from OU VPRP: https://www.ou.edu/research-norman/news-events/2024/two-ou-researchers-receive-nsf-epscor-research-fellowships 

[Aug. 2023] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab welcomes graduate researcher Logan Scott. 

[June 2023] Dr. Zhang attends Baker Hughes' Energy Frontiers Summit as a panelist for Advanced Sensors and Controls.

[Jan. 2023] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab welcomes PhD student Jorge Espin. 

[Aug. 2022] The Energy Systems and Controls Lab welcomes PhD student Yuichi Kajiura.