Yizheng Zhang
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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SeniorZhang Chong is a Senior Researcher at Robotics X (Tencent) and a postdoctoral researcher in Electronic & Computer Engineering at HKUST with a decade of experience in embodied AI. He specializes in active perception, reinforcement learning, and developmental robotics, focusing on mechanisms that enable lifelong, open-ended skill acquisition in robots. Holding a PhD and MS from HKUST and a bachelor's from Shandong University, he blends deep academic rigor with industry-scale research. Based in Guangdong, China, he has progressed from internships at ASTRI to leading research efforts at a major tech company, often bridging theory and practical robotic systems. An understated strength is his commitment to long-horizon learning problems—designing agents that not only learn tasks but continuously expand their capabilities over time.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (112)
simulator10
optimization10
robotics10
reinforcement-learning10
nvidia10
simulation10
r2d210
robot10
mujoco10
minigrid9
sdk9
cql9
pybullet9
actor-critic9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Privilger/RoboMaster-Simulator
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:109 commits, 19 pushes, 9 comments in 1 year 5 months
Privilger/robomaster_visualtag_gazebo
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Robomaster’s visual tag for gazebo
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 days
gazebopythonrobomaster
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