Hongchao Zhang

Education

• Expected 2025 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering,
  Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
  • Advisor: Prof. Andrew Clark.
• 2020 M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering,
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
• 2018 B.E. in Automation Engineering,
  Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Research Interest

• Learning-enabled System;
• Cyber-physical Systems (CPS)
• Safe Control
• Robotics
• CPS Security

Professional Experience

• 2022-Present Graduate Research Assistant, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
• 2019-2022 Graduate Research Assistant, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Teaching Experience

• Mentoring in Washington University Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
  • 2024 Mario Rodriguez-Montoya, Dzenan Zecevic
  • 2023 Nicolas Hernandez, Keyron Linarez
• Mentoring Graduate Directed Research (Mark Charnot, Seifeldin I. Elkhashab) in 2023.
• Mentoring in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Major Qualifying Project (MQP)
  • 2022 Noelle Johnson
  • 2019 Minh Le and Christopher Letherbarrow

Service

• Reviewer of IEEE TAC, IEEE TRO, IEEE T-IFS, IEEE L-CSS, IEEE CDC
• WUSTL ESE PhD Advisory Board
• Public Demonstration at WPI TouchTomorrow 2019, 2022

Awards and Fellowship

• 2023 General Motors AutoDriving Security Award at the inaugural ISOC Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
• Shao-Fang and Tsu-Chin Lee Endowed Fellowship (2022)

Software Tools

• Python, PyTorch, Matlab, Linux, ROS, C/C++

Hardware Platform

• Raspberry Pi, Arduino, F1Tenth Car, Quadrotors