Energy Systems

• Diplom Technomathematik, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
• Postgraduate Diploma in Science in Mathematics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Southampton, UK

• Engineering Mathematics
• Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers
• Process dynamics and control

• Mathematical modelling, simulation and optimisation for engineering and industrial applications
• Design and optimisation of thermal energy systems with energy storage
• Adsorption process modelling for Carbon Capture and Storage and air separation

Projects

• Low Carbon Heating Research Network
• Multisim
• FlexICCS

Office hour

• EM2A: Monday 12:30-13:30
• Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers: Tuesday 11:00-12:00

• MSc (2001), University of Nis, Serbia
• PhD (2004), UMIST, UK

• Member of Joint CIGRE/CIRED WG C4.42 and CIGRE WG C4.63
• Co-chair of two CIGRE/CIRED Joint Work Groups: C4.110 (Voltage Dips) and C4.605 (Load Modelling)
• Advisory Member of IES Controls Protocol Committee
• MIET, SMIEEE
• Several EPSRC, EU, TSB, ETP and DECC Research Projects
• Member of BSI/IEC Committees L/013 (Smart Grids) and GEL/210 (EMC)
• Chair of Task 3: Electric Power Systems Perspective, IEEE PES WG on Sustainable Future Electrical Energy System Design

• MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems, Dissertation Project (PGEE11017)
• Power Systems Engineering and Economics (PGEE11016)
• Power Systems and Machines 4 (ELEE10005)
• Power Systems Engineering 5 (ELEE11054)
• Power Engineering Fundamentals (MSc, PGEE10013)

• Electrical Power Systems
• Distributed Generation
• Modelling of Microgeneration and Small-scale/Medium-scale Distributed Generation
• Illuminating Engineering
• Load Modelling and Demand Side Management
• Power Quality and Reliability/Security Assessment
• Assessment of Steady State and Transient Perfromance of Distribution Networks
• Multi-Vector Energy Systems (Electrical, Heating/Cooling, Transportation...)

• Deputy Programme Director of Sustainable Energy Systems MSc Studies
• Previous Employment: 1992-2001 University of Nis, 2001-2005 University of Manchester/UMIST

I'm a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Dr Thomas Morstyn. My PhD research topic is forecasting the flexibility of aggregated DERs in a distribution grid.

I received a BEng degree in Electrical engineering and its automation from North China Electric Power University in 2020 (GPA: 90.63/100), and an MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 2021 (GPA: 80.4/100).

My research interests include the application of data-driven and optimisation methods in smart grids.

MSc Artificial Intelligence, the University of Edinburgh, 2021

BEng Electrical engineering and its automation, North China Electric Power University, 2020

• PhD Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, 2010
• Diploma of Imperial College, Mechanical Engineering and Energy Policy, 2010
• MEng Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2006

• Associate Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
• Graduate Member, Energy Institute
• Member, British Institute of Energy Economics

• Personal Tutor
• Thermodynamics (Mechanical) 4
• Project supervision for mechanical engineering undergraduate and Sustainable Energy Systems MSc students

• Analysis of flexible low carbon electricity systems
• Techno-economic analysis of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in electricity systems
• Communication of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to non-specialists
• Power plant and CO₂ capture engineering
• Opportunities and challenges for CCS in developing countries

• Equality and Diversity Coordinator for School of Engineering
• Network Director for UK CCS Research Centre 
• Member of Directorate of Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage

Yabin has recently moved to Cambridge. Please see his updated profile: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/yl742

Yabin was the very first 1851 Research Fellow at the School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, and he is currently a visiting fellow in the School. His research interest is in the broad area of fluid dynamics and flow control, particularly for tidal/wind turbines, turbomachinery and aerial/underwater vehicles. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Energy and Power Engineering of Tsinghua University in 2021, with both the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis prize and the Beijing Outstanding Graduate prize. He studied at the University of Cambridge as a fully-sponsored visiting Ph.D. student for 1 year. His doctoral project was on spatial-temporal evolution and controlling methods of tip leakage vortex in turbomachinery. From Sept. 2021 to Aug. 2023, he worked as a research associate at the University of Edinburgh, on the EPSRC Morphing Blades project and explored gust mitigation through passive pitch and flexible trailing edge within analytical analysis and fluid-structure interaction simulation.

As PI or awardee, he has won more than £ 800k funding in total. He is holding the highly competitive and prestigious 1851 Brunel Fellowship (2023-2026), which only has one awardee annually. This fellowship granted by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is set to give early career scientists and engineers of exceptional promise the opportunity to conduct a research project of their own instigation.  He has won the Royal Society ISPF International Collaboration Award, the Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Funding, the EPSRC IAA Innovation Award, the Lund University 'Get Started Funding', etc.

He has a distinguished peer-reviewed publication record, with 3 ESI Highly-Cited/Hot papers and an h-index of 15. He was honoured as a ScholarGPS Highly-Ranked Scholar (top 0.05%). He won many prestigious scholarships and prizes, including the HiWin Doctoral Dissertation Award, the most prestigious prize for PhD graduates in all Mechanical Engineering subjects across Mainland China, Taiwan, HK and Macao, and the Chung-Hua Wu Outstanding Graduate Prize, the highest domestic honour in this major with 9 students awarded in China. He was the winner of the Young Professionals Green Energy Awards and recently shortlisted as a finalist for the Scottish Green Energy Awards, the UK's largest celebration of the renewable energy industry to reward the next generation of leaders in renewables.

MSc (Research) and Visiting PhD students with relevant interests and expertise are welcome. Please feel free to contact me by email.

08/2015-07/2021, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

10/2019-10/2020, Visiting Ph.D. student, Fluid Dynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

08/2011-06/2015, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, College of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, China