Yi Zhang is a visiting PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland from 24 February 2023. He is also a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Prior to this, he was a M.Sc. student at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. He received his B.S. degree from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China, in 2018.

He devotes himself to the research of production process planning and control methods based on AI technology to achieve efficient organization of discrete manufacturing workshops, and explore the integration of new information communication technologies into workshops to achieve the digitalization and interoperability of manufacturing equipment.