AI Research

Assistant Professor

 

Dr. Youzhi Zhang（张有枝）

Assistant Professor

Email: youzhi.zhang@cair-cas.org.hk

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Computational Game Theory, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Optimization

 

Dr. Youzhi Zhang is an assistant professor at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before joining CAIR, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Northwestern University, USA, working with Professor V.S. Subrahmanian. From August 2020 to August 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Dartmouth College, USA, working with Professor V.S. Subrahmanian. He received the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he was advised by Professor Bo An. Prior to that, he received the Bachelor and Master degrees from the Sun Yat-sen University, China. His research interests include artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computational game theory, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and optimization. He has published over 20 referred conference/journal papers, including top conference papers at AAMAS, IJCAI, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML. For contributions to algorithms for equilibrium computation in multiplayer games and their applications, he won the Ph.D Best Thesis Award from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, in 2021. He won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE DASC 2022. For outstanding contributions to top AI conferences, he won the ICML 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award and the IJCAI 2023 Distinguished Program Committee Member Award.