Faculty

Jian Zhao

Jian ZhaoAssistant Professor

Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Advisor at Zhongguancun Academy, and Researcher at the Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2018 and 2023, . The doctoral dissertation was nominated for the 2024 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Agents and Multi-Agent Systems(only 5 nominees nationwide). Published over 40 papers in leading international conferences and journals, including NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR. Winner of several academic competitions, including the inaugural Tencent Kaiwu Global Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Competition and multiple RLChina Agent Challenges. Led industry collaboration projects with companies including Tencent and NetEase.
Fandi Meng

Fandi MengAssistant Professor

Assistant Professor at Zhongguancun Academy and Researcher at the Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Received a B.Eng. degree from Tianjin University, a master’s degree from the University of the Arts London, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen Mary University of London. Research focuses on game AI and intelligent agents, with publications at conferences including AAAI, IEEE COG, and ACM FDG. Also experienced in teaching, student supervision, and research mentoring.

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