• MEng: 1) Electronic Information

• MS：1)Intelligent Science and Technology

• Ph.D: 1) Electronic Information; 2) Intelligent Science and Technology;

Lin Zhenhong (1977-), a Chinese national, is from Huilai, Jieyang, Guangdong Province. He is an overseas high-level introduced talent, a tenured professor and a doctoral supervisor. He graduated from the Department of Automotive Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2002 with his bachelor's and master's degrees. In 2008, he obtained his master's and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Transportation and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis. After working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy for 14 years and being promoted to Distinguished Research Scientist, he returned to his motherland in 2022 and joined the Future Technology College of South China University of Technology. Studied under Ouyang Minggao, Dan Sperling, Joan Ogden, Fan Yueyue and David Greene.

He has published over 100 professional articles, including more than 70 journal articles. According to Google Scholar statistics, his total citations exceed 5,000, with an H-index of 39. He has been repeatedly included in Stanford University's list of the world's top 2% of scientists (annual (2021-2023) and lifetime influence). He has long presided over transportation energy projects of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation and Aramco. He has twice won the U.S. Department of Energy's Scientific Research and Development Award for developing the automotive energy transition choice model MA3T and participating in the energy impact assessment of autonomous vehicles. He is a member of the Fuel Economy Research Committee of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and participated in the writing of the third fuel economy technical assessment report commissioned by the US Congress and sponsored by the US Department of Transportation. Lin Zhenhong is an editorial board member of academic journals such as Transportation Part D, iScience, Int. Journal of Sustainable Transportation, and Energy Policy. Is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

As the head of the 'Energy and Carbon Decision-making' team, Lin Zhenhong will continue to conduct cross-disciplinary research that organically combines natural science and social science around energy transition. He is passionate about leveraging his multi-disciplinary background to systematically discover, evaluate, optimize, design and apply ''technology-infrared-Behavior-Policy'' (TIBP) solutions to help achieve social goals such as carbon reduction, environmental protection, industrial upgrading, energy security and sustainability, and social equity. Based on this academic concept, Lin Zhenhong has published academic achievements such as the optimization design of electric vehicles (focusing on range and lightweighting), infrastructure planning for alternative fuels (focusing on charging and hydrogen refueling), consumer value and choice (focusing on range anxiety, free charging, and power system selection), as well as the evaluation of transportation energy policies (focusing on the efficiency and fairness of fuel economy policies). His 'Energy and Carbon Decision-making' team will include energy technology experts and professors from transportation, construction, power and industrial manufacturing. It will adopt a deep cross-disciplinary team collaboration approach, overcome the barriers of traditional disciplinary thinking, and be guided by national demands and social values to develop technologies and algorithms for energy storage, vehicle-to-grid interaction and energy Internet, and explore cross-disciplinary solutions for energy transformation and interaction in multiple industries.'

• Energy interaction, including energy coordination among people, vehicles, charging stations, buildings, and networks, low-altitude economy, new energy vehicles, integration of transportation and energy, and smart grids;    

• Energy transition, including low-carbon transportation, electro-hydro coupling, energy security, and carbon neutrality pathways.

• Lin Z.* Mostly positive implications of long-haul truck electrification. Joule. 2021 Oct 20;5(10):2548–50.

• Lin, Z.*, Xie, F. and Ou, S., 2020. Modeling the External Effects of Air Taxis in Reducing the Energy Consumption of Road Traffic. Transportation Research Record, Oct. 2020. doi:10.1177/0361198120952791

• Greene, D. L., Ogden, J. M., & Lin, Z. (2020). Challenges in the designing, planning and deployment of hydrogen refueling infrastructure for fuel cell electric vehicles. eTransportation, 100086.

• Hao, X., Lin, Z.*, Wang, H., Ou, S., & Ouyang, M. (2020). Range cost-effectiveness of plug-in electric vehicle for heterogeneous consumers: an expanded total ownership cost approach. Applied Energy, 275, 115394.

• Maness, M., & Lin, Z.* (2019). Free Charging: Exploratory Study of Its Impact on Electric Vehicle Sales and Energy. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198119844966

• Kontou, E., Liu, C., Xie, F., Wu, X. and Lin, Z., 2019. Understanding the linkage between electric vehicle charging network coverage and charging opportunity using GPS travel data. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 98, pp.1-13.

• Ou, Shiqi, Zhenhong Lin*, Liang Qi, Jie Li, Xin He, Steven Przesmitzki, 2018. The dual-credit policy: Quantifying the policy impact on plug-in electric vehicle sales and industry profits in China. Energy Policy, 121:597-610

• McCollum, David L., Charlie Wilson, Michela Bevione, Samuel Carrara, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Johannes Emmerling, Celine Guivarch, Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, Ilkka Keppo, Volker Krey, Zhenhong Lin, Eoin O Broin, Leonidas Paroussos, Hazel Pettifor, Kalai Ramea, Keywan Riahi, Fuminori Sano, Baltazar Solano Rodriguez & Detlef P. van Vuuren , 2018. Interaction of consumer preferences and climate policies in the global transition to low-carbon vehicles. Nature Energy, 3:664-673.

• Lin, Zhenhong*, Shiqi Ou, Amgad Elgowainy, Krishna Reddi, Mike Veenstra, Laura Verduzco. 2018. A method for determining the optimal delivered hydrogen pressure for fuel cell electric vehicles. Applied Energy 216:183-194. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.041

• Xie, Fei, and Zhenhong Lin*. 2017. Market-driven automotive industry compliance with fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards: Analysis based on consumer choice. Energy Policy 108:299-311. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.05.060.

• Lin, Z.*, Li, J. & Dong, J. (2014). Dynamic Wireless Charging: Potential Impact on Plug-in Electric Vehicle Adoption. Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Papers 2014-01-1965

• Lin, Z.* (2014). Battery Electric Vehicles: Range Optimization and Diversification for U.S. Drivers. Transportation Science 48(4):635-650. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2013.0516

• Dong, J., Liu, C., & Lin, Z. (2014). Charging infrastructure planning for promoting battery electric vehicles: An activity-based approach using multiday travel data. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 38(0), 44 – 55. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2013.11.001

• Lin, Z.*, Dong, J., & Greene, D. L. (2013). Hydrogen vehicles: Impacts of DOE technical targets on market acceptance and societal benefits. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38(19), 7973–7985. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.04.120

• Lin, Z.* (2012). Measuring Range Anxiety: the Substitution-Emergency-Detour (SED) Method. World Electric Vehicles Journal 2012, 5, 8-13.

• Lin, Z.*, Dong, J., Liu, C., & Greene, D. (2012). Estimation of Energy Use by Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Validating Gamma Distribution for Representing Random Daily Driving Distance Transportation Research Record, 2287(1), 37-43. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2287-05

• Dong, J., & Lin, Z. (2012). Within-day recharge of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles: Energy impact of public charging infrastructure. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 17(5), 405-412. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2012.04.003

• Lin, Z.*, & Greene, D. L. (2011). Promoting the Market for Plug-In Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles: Role of Recharge Availability. Transportation Research Record, 2252(1), 49-56. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2252-07

• Lin, Z.*, & Greene, D. L. (2011). Assessing Energy Impact of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Significance of Daily Distance Variation over Time and Among Drivers. Transportation Research Record, 2252(1), 99-106. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2252-13

• Lin, Z.*, & Greene, D. (2011). Predicting Individual Fuel Economy. SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, 4(1), 84-95. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-0618