Zhongliang LI

Welcome to Zhongliang's homepage! --------------------------------- Hi, there, I am Zhongliang LI. I was born in the city named Jiamusi located in the northeast of China. My hometown is considered as one of the coldest place in China. In 2005, I have done well in the yearly university entrance examination and was thus able to enter Tsinghua University which is known as the top 2 university of China. I have passed 6 years in the departement of electrical engineering in Tsinghua where I obtained my BS and MS degrees respectively in 2009 and 2011. In 2011, thanks to the financial support of one French ANR project, I was able to come to France and began my PhD career. My PhD work, on fault diagnosis of fuel cell systems, was started in Marseille [LSIS laboratory (UMR CNRS 7296)](http://www.lsis.org/). The second half of my PhD thesis was carried out in another lab [FCLAB (FR CNRS 3539)](http://www.fclab.fr/) located in Belfort. On 16th september of 2014, I successfully defended my thesis in Belfort. After that, I worked as a Postdoc in FCLAB and [FEMTO-ST/Energy](http://www.femto-st.fr/fr/Departements-de-recherche/ENERGIE/Presentation/) until August of 2016. On September 2016, I was hired as an associate professor by Aix-Marseille University where I am working actually. My research work is mainly carried out in [LIS laboratory (UMR CNRS 7020)](http://www.lis-lab.fr/). Regarding the advances in both automation and information domains, the current operations of different energy systems are nevertheless far from "intelligent". Meanwhile, when we try to penetrate the recent exciting developments in automation and information into those energy systems, new problems always float out and challenge the state-of-the-art techniques. My research interests are therefore oriented to bridge the gap between intelligent methodologies and their applications in energy systems. I believe that this research should be one of key subjects in worldwide scale in the ongoing and the next decades.