Dr. Zhaoyu Wang is a Professor and IEEE Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 2015, he has served on the faculty at ISU.

His research interests include optimization and data analytics in power distribution systems and microgrids, with a timely focus on the co-design and resilient integration of large-scale, flexible AI data center loads. He was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the ISU Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research, the Northrop Grumman Endowment, the ISU College of Engineering's Early Achievement in Research Award, and the Harpole-Pentair Young Faculty Award Endowment.