Yiheng Zhu
PHD Researcher at University of Bristol
Suzhou City, Jiangsu, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYiheng Zhu is a PhD researcher in Soft Robotics with nine years of experience at the intersection of reinforcement learning, computer vision, and combinatorial optimization. Based at the University of Bristol and affiliated with FARSCOPE CDT in Autonomous Systems and Robotics, he combines academic rigor with hands-on implementation of AutoML and Neuroevolution techniques. His industry stint at Alibaba involved scaling search algorithms (GA, GP, ALNS) on distributed TensorFlow for neural architecture search, showing strength in both theory and production-aware experimentation. He has taught robotics and mathematical methods, mentoring peers through reading groups and lab preparation, which complements his research focus. Trained originally as an electrical and electronic engineer with first-class honors, he brings a hardware-aware perspective to soft-robotics problems. Outside publications, his profile signals a rare blend of combinatorial optimization expertise applied to learned robotic systems.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Class, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Class at University of NottinghamDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Soft Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Soft Robotics at University of Bristol
Github Skills (18)
gymnasium9
q-learning9
reinforcement-learning8
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
prompting5
dynamics5
simulation5
robotics4
decision-making4
python4
physics4
reasoning3
tool-kit3
large-language-models1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GitYiheng/machine_learning_from_getting_started_to_giving_up
Jul 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
GitYiheng/reinforcement_learning_test
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:145 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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