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Education

National University of Singapore
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, August 2022 – December 2025

Chongqing University, P.R. China
M.E. in Automotive Engineering, 2018 – 2021

Chongqing University, P.R. China
B.E. in Automotive Engineering, 2014 – 2018

Employment

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, EECS, 2026 – Present

National University of Singapore
Teaching Assistant, ME2115: Mechanics of Machines, 2023 – 2024

Weichai Power Co., Ltd.
Fuel Cell Control Strategy Development Engineer, 2021 – 2022

China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Intern, Vehicle Thermal Management Control Strategy Development, 2019 – 2020

Teaching Experience

Guest Lecturer, University of Michigan
EECS 508: Control and Modeling of Power Electronics, 2026
Delivered two guest lectures on nonlinear control techniques for power electronics, covering Lyapunov-based control and sliding-mode control.

Teaching Assistant, National University of Singapore
ME2115: Mechanics of Machines, 2023 – 2024

Research Interests

• Data-driven and data-enabled predictive control
• Data informativity and uncertainty quantification for dynamical systems
• Physics-informed and physics-augmented modeling, learning, and control
• Battery degradation-aware energy and thermal management for electrified vehicles
• Eco-driving and mixed traffic control for connected and automated vehicles

Selected Awards

• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (Category A), China Scholarship Council (CSC), 2026.
• First Prize, Motor Vehicle Challenge at the 2025 IEEE VPPC, 2025
• Outstanding Graduate Student of Chongqing, 2021
• Finalist, 2019 TECO Green Tech International Contest, 2019
• Excellent Graduate of Chongqing University, 2019

Selected Publications

A complete publication list is available on my Publications page.

1. D. Li, H. Dong, and Z. Song, “Eco-driving for connected and automated vehicles: Managing uncertainty in mixed traffic with a physics-enhanced data-driven method,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2025.

2. D. Li, Q. Hu, W. Jiang, H. Dong, and Z. Song, “Integrated power and thermal management for enhancing energy efficiency and battery life in connected and automated electric vehicles,” Applied Energy, vol. 396, p. 126213, 2025.

3. D. Li, K. Zhang, H. Dong, Q. Wang, Z. Li, and Z. Song, “Physics-augmented data-enabled predictive control for eco-driving of mixed traffic considering diverse human behaviors,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 1479–1486, 2024.

4. D. Li, C. Zhang, R. Fan, L. Xu, Y. Wang, W. Guo, J. Chen, and M. Ni, “An innovative thermal management method for cooling loop of electric driving system for durable and high efficiency electric vehicle,” Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 195, p. 117176, 2021.

Academic Service

I have served as a reviewer for more than 120 manuscripts for international journals and conferences in control, transportation electrification, intelligent vehicles, energy systems, and thermal management.

Selected venues include:

• IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
• Applied Energy
• Applied Thermal Engineering
• Energy Conversion and Management
• Energy
• Journal of Energy Storage
• Automotive Innovation
• SAE International Journal of Electrified Vehicles
• American Control Conference
• IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium