Associate Professor Dahai Zhang, Vice Deputy Secretary-General of Division of Ocean Technology System, Chinese Society of Oceanography; Vice Deputy Director of the Institute of Ocean Engineering and Technology at Ocean College, Zhejiang University of (ZJU), received PhD from ZJU of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering in 2010.
Afterwards, he worked as a postdoc at Department of Mechanical Engineering at ZJU in 2011 and worked as a postdoc at Department of Engineering in Lancaster University from 2012 to 2013. Associate Professor Zhang has worked with various research projects dealing with modelling, design and measurements of renewable energy electrical machines such as wave energy converter, tidal current turbine and wind turbine. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers in proposed areas, and chaired 5th China Marine Renewable Energy Conference in 2016 and 3th China Ocean Technology Conference as organizing president in 2017.