Yanping Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Director of Department of Thermal Power Engineering, College of Energy and Power Engineering. Mainly engaged in the research of energy-saving analysis and diagnosis of thermal system, solar high-temperature cavity receiver. She is the . Editor-in-chief of National Planning Textbook "Thermal Power Plant". She published more than 60 papers in famous academic journals and conferences at home and abroad. She has won one US invention patent, six Chinese invention patents.