Dr. Yu Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota and was a postdoc at UC Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research interests span the spectrum from theory to practice, which include 1) Monitoring, learning, and management for smart power grids; 2) Optimal resource allocation for cyber-physical systems; 3) Robust, stochastic, and online optimization; 4) Deep learning and AI.