Biography
Lifeng Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the GRASP lab of the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2020. Before that, he received his MS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2016 and his BS from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013. He serves as an Associate Editor for the ICRA Conference Editorial Board.
Dr. Zhou’s research focuses on designing algorithms to enable security, reliability, and long-term autonomy for multi-robot systems. His research draws from robotics, algorithms, game theory, and machine learning and is motivated by real-world applications to environmental monitoring, surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue, and urban mobility. His long-term goal is to investigate secure, reliable, and scalable autonomy when robots use machine learning techniques in the areas of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, precision agriculture, and smart cities.
Degrees / Education
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2020
- MS, Control Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016
- BS, Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2013
Research Areas
Research Interests
Robotics, algorithms, combinatorial optimization, game theory, machine learning