publications

Peer-reviewed work in AI-enabled formulation design, experimental decision-making and industrial process intelligence.

2026

  1. Pharm. Res.
    Domain Knowledge Constrained Symbolic Regression for Optimising Dermal Drug Formulations
    Yu Zhang, Xilu Wang, Dimitrios Tsaoulidis, and 1 more author
    Pharmaceutical Research, 2026
  2. Active learning-based adaptive optimisation for developing dermal drug formulations
    Yu Zhang, Yongrui Xiao, Xilu Wang, and 2 more authors
    Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2026
  3. AID
    Autonomous AI-Driven Design for Skin Product Formulations
    Yu Zhang, Yongrui Xiao, Chunlin Chen, and 3 more authors
    Advanced Intelligent Discovery, 2026
  4. Confidence-Bound Early Stopping of Experiments with Sequential Calibration
    Yongrui Xiao, Mengjia Zhu, Yu Zhang, and 2 more authors
    Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2026
  5. A modelling-based comparison of IVRT and synthetic-membrane permeation for early formulation screening
    Yongrui Xiao, Chunlin Chen, Yu Zhang, and 2 more authors
    RSC Pharmaceutics, 2026

2025

  1. An early decision-making algorithm for accelerating topical drug formulation optimisation
    Yu Zhang, Yongrui Xiao, Dimitrios Tsaoulidis, and 1 more author
    Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2025

2024

  1. JFI
    Data augmentation using improved conditional GAN under extremely limited fault samples and its application in fault diagnosis of electric submersible pump
    Xiaoyong Gao, Yu Zhang, Jun Fu, and 1 more author
    Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2024

2023

  1. CJCE
    Improved dynamic kernel PCA based on local preserving projections and its application for electric submersible pump fault diagnosis
    Xiaoyong Gao, Yu Zhang, and Junfeng Zhou
    The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2023
  2. IVC
    Improving metric-based few-shot learning with dynamically scaled softmax loss
    Yu Zhang, Xin Zuo, Xuxu Zheng, and 3 more authors
    Image and Vision Computing, 2023

2022

  1. CIE
    Green scheduling optimization of shuttle tanker route considering carbon emissions
    Yue Zhao, Xiaoyong Gao, Guofeng Kui, and 1 more author
    Chemical Industry and Engineering, 2022