Professor Wei Zhong is the deputy director of the Institute of Thermal Science and Power Systems, Energy Engineering College and deputy director of Power Engineering Center, Polytechnic Institute of Zhejiang University. He is currently a member of the China Urban Heating Association Technical Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the Standardization Committeeof the China Urban Heating Association, and an Adjunct Professor of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University (SIAS).

His research interests include smart energy system, complex thermal hydraulic system modeling and simulation, thermal system engineering, cyber-physical system, model predictive control, artificial intelligence, industrial big data and other thermal energy engineering and information technologies. He is also interested in optimization and control of heating system infuture smart cities, district integrated energy system regulation, circular economy and industrial ecology, power plant (industrial boiler) performance design and simulation, and smart power plant engineering application technology.

Dr Zhong serves in the editorial board of District Heating and has been awarded more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological progress awards. So far he has undertaken more than 100 major projects including the National Key R&D Project and those from Provincial Natural Science Fundation.