Yang Fuyuan-School of Vehicle and Mobility，Tsinghua University

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Yang Fuyuan

Ph.D., Professor

E-mail：fyyang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Yang Fuyuan is a tenured professor at Tsinghua University. He serves as a Council Member and the Director of the Engine Division of the China Society of Automotive Engineers (China-SAE), a Council Member of the Beijing Internal Combustion Engine Society, a member of the National Standardization Technical Committee for Diesel Engine Electronic Control, Vice Chair of the National Teaching Steering Committee for Vehicle Engineering, and Executive Council Member of the China Machinery Industry Education Association.

From September 1985 to July 2005, he earned his Bachelor's degree in Internal Combustion Engine Engineering, followed by Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, all from the Department of Automotive Engineering at Tsinghua University. He has been working at the Department (later School) of Automotive Engineering, Tsinghua University, since June 1994, holding various administrative positions including Deputy Party Secretary in charge of student affairs, Deputy Department Head, and Deputy Dean.

From December 1998 to December 1999, he conducted research as a visiting scholar at the Isuzu Central Research Institute in Japan, participating in a study related to diesel engine technology for the US PNGV (Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles) program, which targeted a fuel consumption of 3 liters per 100 kilometers. He was promoted to Professor at Tsinghua University in October 2012 and was among the first faculty members to be appointed as a tenured professor at the university in 2017.

Research

His research primarily focuses on the control of new energy power systems and hydrogen energy technologies, with extensive experience and outstanding achievements in engine combustion closed-loop control, gaseous fuel supply system design and optimization, and hydrogen fuel cell system durability.

He has successively participated in organizing and undertaking over 10 national research projects and topics, including the 973 Program, 863 Program, Key Technology R&D Program, National Key R&D Program, and intergovernmental international cooperation initiatives. In 1992, as a core contributor, he designed and developed the fuel supply system for China's first LNG truck, for which he received the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Achievement Award. In 2005, as the project leader, he undertook a national major project during the 11th Five-Year Plan period, focusing on durability control technology for fuel cell buses. He proposed the Softrun control theory, which significantly improves fuel cell durability and has been widely applied in fuel cell systems by Beijing Sinohytec Co., Ltd. In 2007, in the field of new energy power system control, he introduced the concept of hybrid engines and pioneered cylinder pressure-based combustion closed-loop control and integrated high-frequency control of engines and ISG motors. In 2017, as the project leader, he undertook a national key R&D project titled "Research on Key Technologies of Heavy-Duty Truck Hybrid Power Systems" (completed in December 2020). In 2019, he began focusing on bottleneck issues in applying fuel cells to heavy-duty commercial vehicles, conducting research on hydrogen safety and hydrogen storage technologies.

In 2007, he received a Second Prize of the National Technology Invention Award for "New Electronically Controlled Fuel Injection Technology for Vehicles and Its Application." In 2011, he received a First Prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Award for "Key Technologies and Applications of Multi-Energy Integrated Fuel Cell Buses." He has published over 100 academic papers, including 76 indexed by SCI/EI. He has filed 78 Chinese invention patent applications, with 36 granted, and holds 9 software copyrights. He co-authored the academic monograph "Automotive New Power Systems—Configuration, Modeling, and Control" with Academician Ouyang Minggao and others.