Zhuoxuan is currently a PhD student at MPLab, Columbia University. He was born and grew up in Xi’an, China and received the bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and automation and the minor degree in economics in 2021 from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Later in 2022, he received the MSc degree in future power networks from Imperial College London, London, UK. Supervised by Dr. Fei Teng at Imperial, he worked on data-driven approaches to model and solve power system scheduling problems.
Prior to joining Columbia University in 2025, Zhuoxuan worked 2.5 years as a software engineer focusing on modulation strategies, harmonic performances, weak-gird stability, and other controller functions in PV inverters, power conversion systems (PCS) for battery energy storages, and plant-level controllers. During his undergraduate studies, Zhuoxuan interned as a product and a development engineer respectively in the electricity market and the power equipment manufacturing sector.
Zhuoxuan’s research includes design, control, topology innovation, and partial power processing for high-performance power converters, along with general interests in both hardware and software issues of power electronics. He is committed to advancement in power electronics technologies that benefit our society and the planet.
In his spare time, Zhuoxuan loves music, board games, and learning history and philosophy.