Saeid Bayat

Saeid Bayat

Postdoc at the University of Michigan. Interested in control co-design, floating offshore wind turbines, wave energy conversion, and renewable energy systems.

About me

I am Saeid Bayat, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, working under the supervision of Prof. Lei Zuo. My research focuses on Control Co-Design (CCD), floating offshore wind turbines, and wave energy converters. I earned my Ph.D. in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. James Allison, where I worked on multidisciplinary design optimization and control of complex engineering systems.

My work spans control co-design, optimization, optimal control, model predictive control, simulation-based design optimization, floating offshore wind turbines, and wave energy conversion systems. I enjoy developing computational tools and frameworks to address real-world challenges in renewable energy and marine systems.

Here is my CV and feel free to contact me for collaboration or opportunities.

News

  • Jul ‘25: Our paper titled “Development of a Scaled Hydrofoil-Based Marine Energy Converter: Design, Modeling, and Parametric Optimization” won 1st Place Best Student Paper Award at the ASME IDETC2025 VIB Conference in Anaheim.
  • Jun ‘25: Our manuscript “Impact of Control Strategies on the Control Co-Design of Spar Floating Offshore Wind Turbines” is published in Ocean Engineering.
  • May ‘25: Our paper “Wind turbine control co-design using dynamic system derivative function surrogate model (DFSM) based on OpenFAST linearization” is published in Applied Energy.
  • Apr ‘25: Our paper “Design of Experiments-Based Analysis of a Hybrid Wind–Wave Energy System With a Spar-Torus Combination” is published in ASME IDETC/CIE2025.
  • Mar ‘25: Our paper “Nested Control Co-Design of a Spar Buoy Horizontal-Axis Floating Offshore Wind Turbine” is published in Ocean Engineering.
  • Feb ‘25: Our paper titled “Extracting Design Information From Optimized Designs of Power Flow Systems: Application to Multisplit Thermal Management System Configuration” is published in Journal of Mechanical Design.
Older News
  • Jan '25: Our paper *“Multi-Split Configuration Design for Fluid-Based Thermal Management Systems”* was published in **Journal of Mechanical Design**.
  • Jan '25: Our paper *“A Practical Open-Source Approach to Model Predictive Control Using the Legendre–Gauss–Radau Pseudospectral Method”* was published in **Software Impacts**.
  • Aug '24: Joined the NAME department at UMich as a postdoctoral researcher.
  • Jun '24: Defended my Ph.D. dissertation at UIUC titled “Optimization, Control, and Knowledge Extraction in Engineering Systems: Applications in Vehicle Suspension, Thermal Management, and Floating Offshore Wind Turbines.”