Hao Zhang

Hao Zhang is a roboticist and directs the Human-Centered Robotics Laboratory (HCRLab), which conducts research in lifelong collaborative autonomy, robot adaptation and learning, and human-robot teaming. Dr. Zhang is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award for his work on robot reflection in lifelong adaptation, and a DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) for his work on Autonomous Group Introspective Learning and coopEtition (AGILE) for cross-capability multi-robot adaptation. Dr. Zhang is also directing the Program for Robotics Outreach on Gender and Racial Equity in School and Society (PROGRESS). He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) in 2014, advised by Dr. Lynne E. Parker. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, and the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2006.