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Xiangnan Zhong is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Boca Raton, FL, USA. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering from University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA, in 2017. From 2017-2019, she has worked as an assistant professor at University of North Texas, Denton, TX.

Dr. Zhong serves as the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) Technical Committee (2021-Present). She is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) from 2021 and the Guest Editor of IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications (2018).

She has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (2021) and NSF CRII Award (2019). She is also the recipient of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award (2021) and INNS Doctoral Dissertation Award (2019).

Research Interests

Current research interests focus on Cyber-Physical Systems, Computational Intelligence, Intelligent Control, Machine Learning, Adaptive Control, Autonomous Systems, Networked Systems, Multi-Agent Systems and Robotics.

Awards and Honors

• • NSF CAREER Award 2021

  • International Neural Network Society (INNS) Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award 2021

  • FAU NSF ADVANCE Summer Research Award 2020

  • NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award 2019

  • International Neural Network Society (INNS) Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019

  • URI Enhancement of Graduate Research Award 2016