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Shiyu Zhao

Associate Professor

Director of the WINDY Lab, Associate Head of Department

Department of Artificial Intelligence, School of Engineering

Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

Email: zhaoshiyu[AT]westlake.edu.cn

Welcome to my homepage! More information about my research group (WINDY Lab) can be found at https://shiyuzhao.westlake.edu.cn 

Bio: Shiyu Zhao is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Engineering at Westlake University. He is the founder and director of the Intelligent Unmanned Systems Laboratory (WINDY Lab). His research interests lie in the theories of estimation, control, and reinforcement learning and their applications to intelligent robotic systems especially multi-robot systems and micro aerial vehicles. He was selected as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, and simultaneously entered both the "Career-long impact" and "Single-year impact" ranks (his rank is top 0.2%=250/113,906 in the subfield). He is currently an Associate Editor for the journals of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and Unmanned Systems.  He used to serve as Associate Editors for quite a few international conferences such as IEEE ICRA, IROS, CDC, ACC, ICCA, and ICUAS, and a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board Committee. He was the UK Regional Chair of ICCA2018 and Program Chair of ICCA2019. His new textbook "Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning" is jointly published by Tsinghua University Press and Springer Nature Press. The textbook as received 3,500+ stars on GitHub and the open course has recieved 1,000,000 views over the Internet. 

Shiyu Zhao received his BE and ME degrees from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He got his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2014. He was a postdoc researcher at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and University of California, Riverside from 2014 to 2016. In 2016, he became a Lecturer in Aerospace Systems in the Department of Automatic Control at the University of Sheffield, UK. He joined Westlake University in 2019.

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