Professor Xiaowei Zhao is Professor of Control Engineering at the Intelligent Control & Smart Energy (ICSE) research group, School of Engineering, University of Warwick. He is a co-director of the EPSRC Supergen ORE (Offshore Renewable Energy) Hub. He obtained his PhD in Control Theory from Imperial College London in 2010 and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford until 2013. After that he joined the University of Warwick where he was awarded a chair in 2018. At Warwick he established the ICSE research group and four state-of-the-art laboratories: the Offshore Renewable Energy Lab, the Renewable Energy Integration and Smart Grid Lab, the Hydrogen Technology Lab, and the Autonomous Systems Lab. His main research areas are control theory and machine learning with applications in offshore renewable energy systems, energy storage, smart grids, and autonomous systems. Since 2017, he has held 16 grants from these areas funded by EPSRC, Horizon Europe/UKRI/ Innovate UK, H2020 and industry.
