Dr. Hao Zhu is an Associate Professor and holds the Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation Centennial Fellowship in Electrical Engineering in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Before that, she has been an Assistant Professor of ECE at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) from 2014-2017. Her research interests include energy data analytics and cyber-physical situational awareness for power grids. Dr. Zhu received the NSF CAREER Award in 2017, the Siebel Energy Institute Seed Grant in 2016.