Ya Zhang was born in China, in 1988. She received the B.Sc. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2011, and the M.Eng. degree and PDEng degree both from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2013 and 2015 respectively. Since then she has been with the same specialty in Eindhoven University of Technology and now she is a Ph.D. student in the group of Electromechanics and Power Electronics. Her interest focuses on power converters and digital control techniques applied in power electronics.