Rongliang Zhou

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Research Scientist
Palo Alto

Biography

Rongliang Zhou is currently a research scientist in Sustainable Ecosystem Research Group (SERg) at HP Labs, Palo Alto. His main research interest is modeling and control of thermal systems and energy efficient systems. He received his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2010. Prior to that, he received a master degree in electrical engineering in 2003, and a dual bachelor degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 2000, both from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.

 

Research interests

Modeling and control of thermal systems, energy efficient systems, renewable energy, and sustainability.

Publications

Data Center Cooling Management and Control 

  • Rongliang Zhou, Zhikui Wang, Cullen E. Bash, Tahir Cader, Alan McReynolds, Failure Resistant Data Center Cooling Control Through Model-Based Thermal Zone Mapping, ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference (HT 2012), July 8-12, 2012, Puerto Rico, USA. (to appear)  
  • Rongliang Zhou, Zhikui Wang, Alan McReynolds, Cullen E. Bash, Rocky Shih, Optimization and Control of Cooling Microgrids for Data Centers, 13th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm 2012) , May 30 - June 1, 2012, San Diego, California, U.S.A (to appear)   
  • Rongliang Zhou, Zhikui Wang, Cullen E. Bash, Alan McReynolds, Data Center Cooling management and analysis -- a model based approach, the 28 Annual Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling and Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM 2012), San Jose,  California, USA, March 18-22, 2012  
  • Rongliang Zhou, Zhikui Wang, Cullen E. Bash, Alan McReynolds, Modeling and control for cooling management of data centers  with hot aisle containment, ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2011), Denver, Colorado, USA, November 11-17, 2011.
  • Rongliang Zhou, Zhikui Wang, Cullen E. Bash, Christopher Hoover, Rocky Shih, Alan McReynolds, Ratnesh Sharma, and Niru Kumari, A holistic and optimal approach for data center cooling management, 2011 American Control Conference (ACC 2011), San Francisco, California, USA, June 29-July 1, 2011  
Cooling System Design, Optimization, and Stability Analysis for High Heat Flux Removal Applications   Active Thermal  Displacement Control
  • Rongliang Zhou, Bill Gressick, John T. Wen, Michael K. Jensen, et al., Active thermal management for precision positioning, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, pages 45-50, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, September 22-25, 2007.http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsparnumber=4341850 This is a Non-HP site
Industrial Control
  • Rongliang Zhou, Yanbin Zhang, Donggang Cui, Chang Li, Load control system of cement ball mills and its application, Control Engineering (in Chinese), 10(6): 518-520, 2003.
  • Chang Li, Yanbin Zhang, Gangquan Si, Rongliang Zhou, Design of principal and subordiante on-line monitoring system of large generator, Electric Engineering (in Chinese), 2003(4).   

Downloads

A holistic and optimal approach for data center cooling management.pdf (644.63 KB) - ACC 2011
Modeling and control for cooling management of data centers with hot aisle containment.pdf (416.18 KB) - IMECE 2011
Data Center Cooling Management And Analysis – A Model Based Approach.pdf (427.59 KB) - SEMI-THERM 2012