Song Zhang
Grid Solution Leader Sr. SA - Energy & Utilities at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSong Zhang is a power systems and cloud engineering leader with 10+ years of experience blending electric-grid research, cloud-native architecture, and AI/analytics to modernize utility operations. Currently Head of Grid AI & Analytics after leading energy and utility solutions at AWS, he has built cloud Centers of Excellence, architected HPC and serverless grid platforms, and managed O&M budgets while driving cross-functional adoption. A published researcher, IEEE senior member and repeat award winner, Song holds a PhD and co-invented a granted patent, bridging rigorous control theory and pragmatic production systems. He’s as comfortable designing microservice and IaaS/FaaS solutions as prototyping ML and big-data pipelines in PySpark, and is known for translating cutting-edge research into operational grid resiliency and market applications. An unexpected thread through his career is sustained impact across industry and academia—editorial, standards and chapter leadership that accelerate cloud-first grid modernization.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Certificate Data Science and Big Data Analytics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Arizona State UniversityCertificate Machine Learning, Certificate Machine Learning at CourseraBS (2008) and MS (2011) degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS (2008) and MS (2011) degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Github Skills (52)
pdc10
cim9
complex-event-processing9
stream-processing8
time-series8
storage8
power-systems8
electrical-engineering8
streaming-data8
communications8
data-stream7
javascript7
aws-s37
aws7
grid7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hinfsynz/EZName
Dec 2019 - Oct 2023
Create an easy-to-pronunce and meaningful name from chinese ancient poems for newborns
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 years 10 months
nlpchinesepoemsancientmeaningful
IEEE-PES-TF-Cloud4PowerGrid/cloud_adoption_tutorials
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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