selected publications academic article Gholami, A., Sun, K., Zhang, S., & Sun, X. A. (2023). An ADMM-Based Distributed Optimization Method for Solving Security-Constrained Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow. Operations Research. 71(6), 2045-2060. Aravena, I., Molzahn, D. K., Zhang, S., Petra, C. G., Curtis, F. E., Tu, S., ... Veeramany, A. (2023). Recent Developments in Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow: Overview of Challenge 1 in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition. Operations Research. 71(6), 1997-2014. Zhang, S., & Sun, X. A. (2022). Stochastic dual dynamic programming for multistage stochastic mixed-integer nonlinear optimization. Mathematical programming. 196(1-2), 935-985. Zhang, S., Liu, S., Deng, T., & Shen, Z. (2020). Transient-State Natural Gas Transmission in Gunbarrel Pipeline Networks. INFORMS Journal on Computing. 32(3), 697-713. Deng, T., Liang, Y., Zhang, S., Ren, J., & Zheng, S. (2019). A Dynamic Programming Approach to Power Consumption Minimization in Gunbarrel Natural Gas Networks with Nonidentical Compressor Units. INFORMS Journal on Computing. 31(3), 593-611. institutional repository document Zhang, S., & Sun, X. A. (2022). On Distributionally Robust Multistage Convex Optimization: Data-driven Models and Performance Gholami, A., Sun, K., Zhang, S., & Sun, X. A. (2022). An ADMM-based Distributed Optimization Method for Solving Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow Zhang, S., & Sun, X. A. (2020). On Distributionally Robust Multistage Convex Optimization: New Algorithms and Complexity Analysis Zhang, S., & Sun, X. A. (2019). Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming for Multistage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization Blekherman, G., Sinn, R., Velasco, M., & Zhang, S. Spurious local minima in nonconvex sum-of-squares optimization
teaching activities ISEN320 Operations Research I Instructor ISEN623 Non-linear & Dyn Prog Instructor ISEN691 Research Instructor
education and training Ph.D. in Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology - (Atlanta, Georgia, United States) 2022 B.S. in Mathematics and Physics, Tsinghua University - (Beijing, Beijing, China) 2017