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Youzhi Zhang

Assistant Professor
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR)
Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

I am looking for highly motivated Ph.D students/Research Assistants/Postdocs to join our team. If you want to work with me, feel free to email me.

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E-mail: youzhi dot zhang dot lgc@gmail dot com
Address: Room 301-303, 305-309, 317-320, 3/F, 17W, Science Park West Avenue, Hong Kong Science Park, Pak Shek Kok, New Territories, Hong Kong

Brief Biography

Dr. Zhang is an assistant professor of CAIR, HKISI-CAS. 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 focuses on equilibrium computation and the application of game theory. 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.

Top News

  • [May 2024] Two paper was accepted to ICML 2024.

  • [April 2024] One paper was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.

  • [January 2024] One paper was accepted to WWW 2024 (TheWebConf24).

  • [December 2023] One paper was accepted to AAMAS 2024.

  • [November&December 2023] Visit Nanyang Technological University and attend DAI 2023.

  • [September 2023] One paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2023 and one paper was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

  • [August 2023] Distinguished Program Committee Member at IJCAI 2023 (the top 3% of reviewers).

  • [July 2023] One paper was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (a top journal on security).

  • [July 2023] Visit Nanjing University, Southeast University, and HUAWEI NOAH'S ARK LAB.

  • [July 2023] Attend IJCAI YES 2023.

  • [June 2023] Visit Southern University of Science and Technology and Sun Yat-sen University.

  • [May 2023] Attend AAMAS 2023.

  • [January 2023] One paper was accepted to AAMAS 2023.

  • [November 2022] Invited talk at the Southeast University.

  • [November 2022] Invited talk at the Huawei–CAIR AI and Robotics Workshop.

  • [November 2022] Two papers were accepted to AAAI 2023.

  • [September 2022] The Best Paper Award at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC 2022).

  • [July 2022] Outstanding Reviewer at ICML 2022 (the top 10% of reviewers).

  • [April 2022] One paper was accepted to IJCAI 2022 as Long Oral Presentation (3.75% rate).

Awards & Honors

  • Distinguished Program Committee Member Award, IJCAI, 2023.

  • The Best Paper Award, IEEE DASC, 2022.

  • Outstanding Reviewer Award, ICML, 2022.

  • The Ph.D Best Thesis Award, NTU SCSE, 2021.

  • Finalist (25/1000+), KDD'20 Reinforcement Learning Competition Track, 2020.

  • Student Travel Award, AAAI, 2019 & 2020.

  • Research Scholarship, NTU, 2016-2020.

  • National Scholarship for Graduate Students, Ministry of Education of China, 2014 & 2015.

  • Outstanding Graduates Award, Sun Yat-sen University, 2013.

  • Outstanding Thesis Award, Sun Yat-sen University, 2013.

Research Appointments

  • Assistant Professor (August 2022 - Present)

    • Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (September 2021 - August 2022)

    • Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, USA

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (August 2020 - August 2021)

    • Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA

  • Research Assistant (March 2020 - July 2020)

    • Agent Mediated Intelligence Research Group, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore




Invited Talks

  • Computing optimal Nash equilibria in multiplayer games (December 2023 )

    • Nanyang Technological University and DAI 2023

  • Solving network pursuit games: challenge and the state-of-the-art (July 2023 )

    • HUAWEI NOAH'S ARK LAB, Hong Kong SAR, China

  • Solving network pursuit games: challenge and the state-of-the-art (July 2023 )

    • Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  • Solving network pursuit games: challenge and the state-of-the-art (July 2023 )

    • Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  • Solving network pursuit games: challenge and the state-of-the-art (June 2023 )

    • Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  • Solving network pursuit games: challenge and the state-of-the-art (June 2023 )

    • Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

  • Correlation-based algorithm for team-maxmin equilibrium in multiplayer extensive-form games (November 2022 )

    • Southeast University of Science and Technology, Online

  • Correlation-based algorithm for team-maxmin equilibrium in multiplayer extensive-form games (November 2022 )

    • Huawei--CAIR AI and Robotics Workshop, Online

  • Converging to team-maxmin equilibria in zero-sum multiplayer games (December 2020 )

    • Dartmouth College, Online

  • Computing team-maxmin equilibria in zero-sum multiplayer games (November 2020 )

    • University of California, Berkeley, Online

  • Converging to team-maxmin equilibria in zero-sum multiplayer games (October 2020 )

    • DAI, Online



Professional Services

  • Conference Program Committee Member (Reviewer)

    • ICML (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024); NeurIPS (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023); AAAI (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024); IJCAI (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024); ICLR (2022, 2023, 2024)

  • Journal Reviewer

    • IEEE Intelligent Systems; Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; INFORMS Journal on Computing


Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (July 2016 - July 2020)


    • The Ph.D Best Thesis Award, NTU SCSE, 2021. Supervised by Professor Bo An.

  • Master of Philosophy in Logic. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (August 2013 - June 2016)

  • Bachelor of Philosophy in Logic. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Sep 2009 - June 2013)

    • Outstanding Graduate of Sun Yat-sen University and Outstanding Thesis of Sun Yat-sen University.

Supervising

  • Changyi Ma, Postdoc


  • Rong Feng, Ph.D student


  • Runsheng Yu, Ph.D student@HKUST


  • Jiazhi Zhang, Master student@HKUST


  • Wenrong Li, Master student@HKU


  • Shangkun Zheng, Remote, Undergraduate student@CityU (Incomming Ph.D student)


  • Shuxin Zhuang, Remote, Master student@SEU (Incomming Ph.D student)


  • Tianji Yang, Remote, Undergraduate student@ECNU


  • Muheng Li, Remote, Undergraduate student@NJU


  • Xianjie Shi, Remote, Undergraduate student@NJU


  • Yihe Chen, Remote, Undergraduate student@NJU


  • Hao Chen, Remote, Ph.D student@UCAS


  • Shuxin Li, Remote, Ph.D student@NTU


  • Jingxiang Ma, Remote, Ph.D student@BIT


  • Jintao Xue, Remote, RA@HKUST

    Now Ph.D student at HKU