Associate ProfessorYilei Zhang

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

  • Associate Professor
    Mechanical Engineering
  • +6433690825 (Work)
  • Civil & Mechanical Engineering Rm E542

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Trustable LLM for Engineering Applications
    2 Mar 2026
    Maskey, Sagar
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Topology - Controlled Bioprinted Vascular Networks and AI - Driven Modelling for Quantitative Analysis of Drug Transport Under Stroke - Like Occlusion
    3 Nov 2025
    Kundu, Swarupa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A HYBRID MEMORY-AUGMENTED LIFELONG LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
    4 Aug 2025
    Fan, Junhao
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED MECHANISMS FOR MITIGATING CATASTROPHIC FORGETTING IN MULTIMODAL SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS
    2 Jun 2025
    Merlin, Manohar Steffi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A LARGE LANGUAGE MOD EL ARCHITECTURE FOR ITERATIVE ROBOTIC SE LF - IMPROVEMENT VIA TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS, FAILURE DETECTION, AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNI NG
    1 Mar 2025
    Sarker, Shimanto
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    ENABLING SMART SAFE MANUFACTURING
    1 May 2024
    Mbangu, Gregory
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimized LLM Agents for Engineering Desing and Optimization
    29 Feb 2024
    Tian, Chuan
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Electrical and Computer Engineering Design
    1 Jan 2024
    ENEL200-24W
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development of a FDM Filament Manufacturing Extruder
    1 Jul 2023 - 20 Oct 2023
    Martin, Richard
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    LLM enabled emotional design
    4 May 2023
    Qiao, Han
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Lean manufacturing for SME
    1 Nov 2022
    Lee, Kongting
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Design Blockchain for Manufacturing
    20 Jun 2022
    Passelande, Alexandre
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development of Smart Helmet
    11 Mar 2020
    Coleman, James
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development of new 3D printing technology
    24 Feb 2020 - 3 Jul 2020
    Ferreboeuf, Julien
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Network for Tactile Signal Processing
    1 Jan 2020
    Jiang, Chunming
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimisation of freight transportation networks
    1 Jul 2019 - 7 Aug 2023
    Lyu, Zichong
  • TEACHING QUALIFICATION
    Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching
    1 Jul 2019 - 1 Dec 2020
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Tangata Tū, Tangata Ora
    12 Jun 2019
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Te Reo Māori for the Workplace
    4 Apr 2019
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Electrical and Computer Engineering Design
    1 Jan 2019
    ENEL200-19W