Zongxuan Sun |
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Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant Professor |
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| Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Minnesota 111 Church Street, S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 | |
| (612) 625-2107 FAX (612) 625-6069 E-mail: zsun@umn.edu |
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Zongxuan Sun received his Bachelor's degree in Automatic Control with honor from Southeast University (former Nanjing Institute of Technology), China in 1995. He earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998 and 2000 respectively. After a brief stint in the disk drive industry, he joined General Motors Research and Development Center as a Senior Researcher and later was promoted to Staff Researcher. In August 2007, he joined the faculty at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota.
Research interests are in synthesis, design, and control of electro-hydraulic, electromechanical, and electro-magnetic systems, tracking control and disturbance rejection, nonlinear and time-varying control, mechatronics, fluid power and the applications to automotive propulsion systems. Recent research work includes novel time-varying control methodologies for rotational-angle based systems, developing key enabling technologies for clean, efficient and multi-fuel capable automotive powertrain, such as camless engine, precise pressure regulation for common-rail systems, modeling and control of efficient transmission systems, and various advanced hybrid concepts.