Dr Yuanjian Zhang is a Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University.  He was awarded his PhD in Automotive Engineering from the Jilin University, China in 2018, and joined the research staff in the Centre for Automotive Engineering at University of Surrey in 2018. He moved to Sir William Wright Technology Centre at Queen’s University Belfast in early 2019. On December 2021, he started his work at Loughborough University as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Intelligent Electric Vehicles.

His research interests focus on new generation clean propulsion control and optimisation, digital modelling and simulation, intelligent transportation system and artificial intelligence (AI) in engineering practice.