Prof. Shiyou Yang
Shiyou Yang received his M. Eng and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1990 and 1995, respectively. He is currently a full professor at the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang university, China. His research interests include Computational Electromagnetics in both high and low frequency domains, and the application of numerical techniques in performance analysis and optimization of electronic and electromagnetic devices.
Presentation: Robust design optimization: uncertainty quantification, problem formulation and numerical methodology
In traditional design optimizations, the goal is to find the global optimal solution of a performance (objective) parameter. However, imprecision and uncertainty are often inevitable in an engineering problem. It is thus possible that a slight perturbation in the optimized variables could result in either a significant performance degradation or even infeasible solutions if the performance on this point in issue is very sensitive to the decision parameters. In this regard, it is equally important to explore robust optimal methodologies in the studies of inverse and optimization problems under conditions of uncertainties in electromagnetics. This presentation will give a brief overview on uncertainty quantification and problem formulation, and report in details some advancements of our research group on the numerical solution methodologies for robust design optimizations.