CV

Education

Tsinghua University, PhD Candidate in Vehicle Engineering, 2024 - Present

  • School of Vehicle and Mobility (SVM)
  • Advisor: Prof. Dr. Yangjun Zhang

Tsinghua University, B.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2020 - 2024

  • Xingjian College

Tsinghua University, B.Eng. in Vehicle Engineering, 2020 - 2024

  • Dual Degree

Research Interests

  • Vehicle Engineering
  • Ducted Fan Propulsion & Dynamics
  • Boundary Layer Meteorology

Research Experience

PhD Research 2024 - Present

  • Focuses on the mechanism and modelling of ducted fan eVTOLs' propulsion and dynamics amidst various disturbances.
  • Investigating proximity effects and meteorological hazards (e.g., wind effects).

Selected Publications

  1. He, Y., et al. (2026). "Wind-Induced Period-Doubling Bifurcation and Stability Loss of a Ducted Fan in Urban Boundary Layer". Physics of Fluids. (Featured Article)
  2. He, Y., et al. (2026). "Physics-Inspired Permutational UNet with Reference Fusion for Real-Time Thrust Modeling of Ducted-Fan eVTOLs in Ground Effect". Aerospace Science and Technology.
  3. He, Y., et al. (2025). "Data-physical modelling of eVTOL in-ground-effect thrust with physics-inspired adversarial temporal convolutional network". Propulsion and Energy.

(See Publications page for full list)

Awards & Honors

  • ChangXin Memory Technologies Scholarship (2025)
  • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Municipality (2024)
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, SVM Tsinghua (2024)
  • Interdisciplinary Award of Milan Academic Week, China-Italy Design Innovation Hub (2024)
  • Mingwei Zhang Scholarship (2023)
  • Toyota Scholarship (2022)
  • Tsinghua University Scholarship (2022)
  • Tsinghua University "Xingjian Zhiyuan" Scholarship (2021)

Skills & Personal

  • Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Proficient, 108 in TOEFL), and French (B1, everyday life)
  • Interests: Amateur transportation photography, Traveling (Visited 18 countries/regions including US, UK, France, etc.)