Dr. Zhang holds a Bachelor’s degree in Built Environment and Energy Application Engineering, a Master’s degree in HAVC Engineering, and a Ph.D. in HAVC Engineering. All these degrees were conferred by Dalian University of Technology in China. Dr. Zhang currently serves as an Assistant Research Fellow at Dalian University of Technology and is a member of the OASIS_EB research group led by Professor Tianyi Zhao (OASIS_EB: Online Automated Solutions in Energy and Building Sustainability). He has also participated in academic exchanges at the Welsh School of Architecture and the School of Engineering at Cardiff University. His research interests include building occupant behavior modeling, building energy consumption forecasting, building energy-efficiency retrofit, building energy flexibility assessment and improvement, building energy system resilience, etc. Dr. Zhang has published 15 international papers in journals such as Applied Energy, Energy, and Energy and Buildings, and has authored one English monograph published by Elsevier.