Dongda ZhangDr. Dongda Zhang is a University Lecturer at Department of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science, the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London. He is also a mmber of the BBSRC Pool of Experts in Industrial Biotechnology. He holds BSc degree at Tianjin University (2011), China and MSc degree at Imperial College London (2013). He completed his PhD research at the University of Cambridge within two years, and graduated at the beginning of third year after the university special approval on Thesis Early Submission (2016). He currently leads research in Machine Learning and Reaction Engineering at the Centre for Process Integration. He is interested in exploring how advanced hybrid modelling and machine learning technologies can be developed and applied to accelerate reaction system design and process digitalisation. He has been collaborating with industrial partners and research groups on the multiscale modelling, online optimisation and control, physical knowledge discovery, real-time visualisation, and scale-up of complex chemical/biochemical reaction systems. Since 2015, he has published over 30 research articles (>600 citations) in this field. Read More Read Less