Ye Zhu received the B.Sc. (Eng) and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2017 and 2020, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from UNSW Sydney, Australia, in 2025. From Mar to Sept 2025, she was working as a Research Fellow with UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Since Sept 2025, she joined ShanghaiTech University as a tenure-track assistant professor. Her research interests include modeling, control and stability analysis of modular multilevel converters.

Publications

Journal articles: 16 (including 15 IEEE Transactions)

Conference papers: 11

Citations: 270; h-index: 8; i10-index: 8 (Google Scholar, Sep. 2025)

• Y. Zhu, S. Jiang, J. Pou and G. Konstantinou, Virtual Arm Impedance Emulation and Stability Improvement in Modular Multilevel Converters, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 3931-3942, April 2024.

• Y. Zhu, S. Jiang and G. Konstantinou, Design of Adaptive Current Limiters in Modular Multilevel Converters, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 5488-5492, May 2025.

  Y. Zhu, J. Pou and G. Konstantinou, Impedance Shaping Effects and Stability Assessment of Circulating Current Control Schemes in Modular Multilevel Converters, IEEE Trans. Power Deliv., vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 666-676, Feb. 2023.

• Y. Zhu, S. Jiang and G. Konstantinou, Small-Signal Stability Enhancement With Circulating Reactive Power in Parallel Modular Multilevel Converters, IEEE Trans. Power Deliv., vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 1100-1109, April 2024.

• Y. Zhu, K. Ma and X. Cai, Thermal Characterization Method of Power Semiconductors based on H-bridge Testing Circuit, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 8268-8273, Sept. 2019.

• Y. Zhu, S. Jiang and G. Konstantinou, Admittance shaping effects of power flow in modular multilevel converters, Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 225, p. 109808, Dec. 2023.

• S. Jiang, Y. Zhu, T. Xu, X. Wang and G. Konstantinou, Frequency Domain Inertia Design of Grid-Forming Converters, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2025.3542393.

• S. Jiang, Y. Zhu and G. Konstantinou, Bandwise Power Synchronization Loop for Frequency Response Improvement in Grid-Forming Converters, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 10693-10698, Sept. 2024.

• S. Jiang, Y. Zhu, T. Xu and G. Konstantinou, Current-Synchronization Control of Grid-Forming Converters for Fault Current Limiting and Enhanced Synchronization Stability, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 5271-5285, May 2024. (Highlight paper, TPEL Second Prize Paper Award)

• S. Jiang, Y. Zhu and G. Konstantinou, Stability Analysis of Multi-Bus Power Electronics Defined Power Systems Using Phase Information of Nodal Admittance Matrix, IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 6063-6075, July 2024.

• S. Jiang, Y. Zhu, and G. Konstantinou, ”Settling Angle-Based Stability Criterion for Power-Electronics-Dominated Power Systems,” IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 2972-2984, 2023.

• S. Jiang, Y. Zeng, Y. Zhu, J. Pou and G. Konstantinou, Stability-Oriented Multiobjective Control Design for Power Converters Assisted by Deep Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 12394-12400, Oct. 2023.

• K. Ma, J. Lin and Y. Zhu, Statistical Characterization for Loss Distributions of Power Semiconductor Devices, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 7384-7388, Jul. 2021.

• T. Xu, S. Jiang, Y. Zhu and G. Konstantinou, Composite Power-Frequency Synchronization Loop for Enhanced Frequency Response Considering Current and Power Limits of Grid-Forming Converters, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 4969-4983, April 2025.

Granted patents

Granted CN patents: 6

Granted US patent: 1