Lin Zhao

I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

I received my PhD degree in ECE and MSc in Mathematics from The Ohio State University, USA, in 2017, supervised by Prof. Wei Zhang and Prof. Ghaith A. Hiary, respectively. Before that, I received my B.S. and M.S. in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, supervised by Prof. Huijun Gao. Before joining NUS, I was a research scientist at Aptiv Pittsburgh Technology Center (now Motional).

My research intersects control theory, optimization, and machine learning, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). One recent focus is on design and analysis of reinforcement learning algorithms, to boost training efficiencies and control performance with theoretical guarantees. On the UAV side, our group develop AI-assisted planning and control algorithms to enable more intelligent and robust autonomous operations and multi-agent collaborations.

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2020)
• Research Scientist Aptiv (2018 — 2020)
• Research Assistant The Ohio State University (2012 — 2017)
• Ph.D. intern Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - PNNL (2016 — 2016)
• Instructor and Graduate Teaching Assistant The Ohio State University (2014 — 2015)
• Visiting Student University of Agder (2012 — 2012)
• Graduate Research Assistant Harbin Institute of Technology (2009 — 2012)
• Visiting Student National Tsing Hua University (2010 — 2010)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD The Ohio State University (2012 — 2017)
• Master of Science - MS The Ohio State University (2016 — 2017)
• Master of Science - MS Harbin Institute of Technology (2010 — 2012)
• Bachelor of Science - BS Harbin Institute of Technology (2006 — 2010)