Yujie Zhang

Associate Professor / Master Supervisor

Major: Control Science and Engineering

Research Areas: Intelligent control technology for UAVs; Network Attack and Defense Technology; Prognostics and Health Management (PHM); Intelligent Health State Assessment and Life Prediction of Electromechanical Equipment; Fault Diagnosis Technology for Complex Equipment.

Email: zhangyj@scu.edu.cn

Address: Sichuan University, 24 South Section 1, 1st Ring Road, Chengdu, China

Postal Code: 610065

Biography: In recent years, Dr. Zhang has primarily conducted research on the reliability, fault diagnosis, remaining useful life prediction, health assessment, and intelligent control of complex systems. He has independently presided over six projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Program, Sichuan Provincial NSFC Youth Program, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, National Laboratory Open Fund, Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory Open Fund, and Sichuan University Postdoctoral Research Fund. To date, he has published over 30 SCI/EI-indexed papers and holds seven national invention patents (applied/authorized). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and is a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, ISA Transactions, Pattern Recognition, Applied Soft Computing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Sensors Journal, Journal of Instrumentation, and several other journals.

Education and Professional Experience

2021.07 – 2023.05

Sichuan University, School of Electrical Engineering, Associate Professor, Intelligent Health Assessment Team, Mentor: Prof. Qiang Miao

2021.07 – 2023.05

Sichuan University, School of Electrical Engineering, Assistant Professor, Intelligent Health Assessment Team, Mentor: Prof. Qiang Miao

2014.09 – 2021.04

Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering, Advisor: Prof. Yu Peng

2010.09 – 2014.07

Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), School of Information Science and Engineering, B.Eng. in Measurement, Control Technology, and Instrumentation

Research Projects

[1]NSFC Youth Program, In-situ perception and health assessment of electromechanical actuators under multi-field coupling, 2024–2026, Ongoing, PI.

[2]Sichuan Provincial NSFC Youth Program, Online health degradation modeling of electromechanical actuators under multi–time-varying failure modes, 2023–2024, Completed, PI.

[3]China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Health factor construction and optimized state assessment for on-wing auxiliary power units under multi–time-varying failure modes, 2022–2024, Completed, PI.

[4]NSFC Youth Program, Perception-parameter-based modeling for on-wing state assessment and prediction of aircraft auxiliary power units, 2019–2021, Completed, Participant.

[5]NSFC General Program, Online degradation feature identification and life prediction for space lithium-ion battery packs, 2018–2021, Completed, Participant.

Selected Academic Publications

[1]Jinhui Yang, Yujie Zhang*, Jianyu Wang, Qiang Miao. FDENN: Health Indicator Extraction for Power Electronics of Electro-Mechanical Actuator based on Feature-enhanced Deep Elastic Neural Network. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2025.3608873. (SCI)

[2]Yujie Zhang, Mingyang Du, Qiang Miao*. CART-net: A Causal Adaptive Residual Time Network for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Aero-Engines Under Varying Operating Conditions. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025, 12(23): 50291-50303. (SCI)

[3]Zeyi Zhou, Jie Zhong, Yujie Zhang*, Qiang Miao. Anomaly Detection for UAV Flight Data via Reconstruction-Prediction Co-Learning Attention Network. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2025, 74: 3553013. (SCI)

[4]Yujie Zhang, Yuxuan Xie, Mingyang Du, Qiang Miao*. Remaining Useful Life Prediction Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Deep Networks for Electromechanical Actuator. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2025, 74: 3550313. (SCI)

[5]Zhiqiang Xu, Yujie Zhang*, Qiang Miao. An Attention-based Multi-Scale Temporal Convolutional Network for Remaining Useful Life Prediction. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024: 110288. (SCI)

[6]Yujie Zhang, Mingyang Du, Chong Luo, Qiang Miao*. Operation Mode Recognition with Multiple Sensing Data for Electro-Mechanical Actuator based on Deep-shallow Fusion Network. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2024, 73: 3512210. (SCI)

[7]Zhiqiang Xu, Yujie Zhang*, Jianguo Miao, Qiang Miao. Global attention mechanism based deep learning for remaining useful life prediction of aero-engine. Measurement, 2023, 217: 113098. (SCI)

[8]Yinxue Zeng, Yujie Zhang*, Xingyou Yan, Qiang Miao. EMA Health Indicator Extraction based on Improved Multivariate State Estimation Technique with a Composite Operator. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023, 23(17): 19894-19904. (SCI)

[9]Yujie Zhang, Datong Liu*, Qiang Miao, Yu Peng. Sensing Data-Based Degradation Estimation of Electromechanical Actuator Under Dynamic Operating Conditions. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, 22(22): 21837-21845. (SCI)

[10]Jianyu Wang, Yujie Zhang*, Chong Luo, Qiang Miao. Deep Learning Domain Adaptation for Electro-mechanical Actuator Fault Diagnosis under Variable Driving Waveforms. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, 22(11): 10783 - 10793. (SCI)

[11]Jie Zhong, Yujie Zhang*, Jianyu Wang, Chong Luo, Qiang Miao. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight Data Anomaly Detection and Recovery Prediction Based on Spatio-Temporal Correlation. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2022, 71(1): 457-468. (SCI)

[12]Yujie Zhang, Liansheng Liu, Yu Peng, Datong Liu*. Health Indicator Extraction with Phase Current for Power Electronics of Electro-Mechanical Actuator. Measurement, 2020, 159: 1-13. (SCI)

[13]Yu Peng, Yujie Zhang, Datong Liu*, Liansheng Liu. Degradation estimation using feature increment stepwise linear regression for PWM Inverter of Electro-Mechanical Actuator. Microelectronics Reliability, 2018, 88: 514-518. (SCI)

[14]Yujie Zhang, Lulu Wang, Shaonian Wang, Peng Wang, Haitao Liao, Yu Peng*. Auxiliary power unit failure prediction using quantified generalized renewal process.Microelectronics Reliability, 2018, 84: 215-225. (SCI)

[15]Yujie Zhang, Liansheng Liu, Yu Peng, Datong Liu*. An Electro-Mechanical Actuator Motor Voltage Estimation Method with a Feature-Aided Kalman Filter. Sensors, 2018, 18(12): 1-15. (SCI)

[16]Yujie Zhang, Yu Peng, Liansheng Liu*. Degradation Estimation of Electro-Mechanical Actuator with Multiple Failure Modes using Integrated Health Indicators. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020, 20(13): 7216-7225. (SCI)

[17]Yujie Zhang, Datong Liu*, Jinxiang Yu, Yu Peng, Xiyuan Peng. EMA remaining useful life prediction with weighted bagging GPR algorithm. Microelectronics Reliability, 2017, 75: 253-263. (SCI)

Talent Development

Students majoring in electronic engineering, computer science, communications, automation, measurement and control, or related areas are welcome to join our research team.

The laboratory provides excellent training resources, fosters a strong research culture, and emphasizes the development of students’ comprehensive abilities. We actively support personal development and career planning.

Here, you will experience unique opportunities for learning, research, and personal growth.

Courses

Graduate Core Course: Measurement Technology and Automation

Graduate Elective Course: Integrated Sensing Technologies for Signal and Information

Undergraduate Required Course: Fundamentals of Electric Machines and Electric Drive

Academic Appointments

Deputy Secretary-General, Reliability Engineering Division, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Deputy Director, Sichuan Provincial International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Aerospace Information and Intelligent Equipment

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Youth Editorial Board Member, Quality and Reliability