Inside the Mind of

Yangfang (Helen) Zhou

Yangfang (Helen) Zhou is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at Lee Kong Chian School of Business of Singapore Management University. Her research focuses on Sustainability like Renewable energy and energy storage operations, Electrical vehicle adoption and operations, Agriculture operations, Food waste and food loss, as well as methods such as Stochastic dynamic programming, Financial engineering price modelling, Mechanism design, and Exponential cone programming.


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Smart Charging is a simple yet powerful idea: Price the charging service based on duration so that drivers of electric vehicles give flexibility to utility firms or charging stations.  As a concept it is feasible anywhere and is applicable in any country.

Yangfang (Helen) Zhou, Managing a city of electric vehicles: How can this happen?