Zhang, Kaiqing
The Institute for Systems Research
Maryland Robotics Center
Dr. Zhang is currently an assistant professor at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. During the deferral time before joining UMD, he was a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with LIDS and CSAIL at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Research Fellow at Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley.
Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in 2021 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL). Prior to his Ph.D., Dr. Zhang received two M.S. degrees in 2017, one in ECE and the other in Applied Math from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Zhang holds a B.E. in Automation with a second degree in Economics from Tsinghua University in China.
His research interests lie broadly in control theory, game theory, reinforcement learning, robotics, and their intersections. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship, CSL PhD Thesis Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) TC Best-Paper Award, ICML Outstanding Paper Award, AAAI New Faculty Highlights, ICML Outstanding Meta Reviewer, Cisco Research Award, JP Morgan Faculty Research Award, Open Philanthropy AI Safety Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR YIP Award, and Donald P. Eckman Award.
ENEE769L: Decision Making Under Uncertainty -- Reinforcement Learning, Control, and Games, Spring 2023
ENEE460: Control Systems, Fall 2023, 2024; Spring 2025; Fall 2025
ENEE664: Optimal Control, Spring 2024