Weifei Hu(胡伟飞)Research

Weifei Hu received the B.S. degree in 2008 from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, the M.S. degree in 2010 from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, and the Ph.D. degree in 2015 from the University of Iowa, Iowa city, Iowa, USA, all in mechanical engineering. From February 2016 to September 2018, Dr. Hu was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. He is currently holding a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests include optimization design and machine learning with innovative applications in a wide range of energy and engineering fields. His work has been published in over 30 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, e.g., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO), Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, and many ASME and AIAA proceedings. His journal paper (first author) on reliability-based design optimization of wind turbine blades is highlighted as a Key Scientific Article contributing to the excellence in renewable and clean energy research by the Renewable Energy Global Innovations on October 22, 2016. Dr. Hu is a Technical Committee Member (2016–2019) and the Vice Chair (2017-2019) of the Renewable and Advanced Energy Systems Committee in ASME.