Lifeng Zhou
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Assistant Professor
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About me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the GRASP Lab of the University of Pennsylvania. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2020. Before that, I received my MS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2016 and my BS from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013. I serve as an Associate Editor for the ICRA Conference Editorial Board.
My research focuses on enabling security, trustworthiness, and long-term autonomy in robotics and autonomous systems. I have been working in related areas such as multi-robot coordination, approximation algorithms, combinatorial optimization, deep learning, model predictive control, and resilient and risk-aware decision making. My long-term goal is to investigate secure, reliable, and scalable multi-robot autonomy when robots use data-driven machine learning techniques in the areas of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, precision agriculture, and smart cities. I am especially interested in how collaborative intelligence and learning paradigms can help overcome challenges related to adversarial attacks and uncertainties on the perceptions and communications of decentralized multi-robot teams. Find out more.
I also share common interests with my dear wife, Dr. Tiantian Lin, in the areas of Agricultural Robotics & Food Science. She is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University. To learn more about her research, see here.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, August 2016 - May 2020
M.S. in Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, September 2013 - March 2016
B.S. in Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, September 2009 - June 2013
Recent News
Nov ‘18: I gave an invited talk (virtual) in the Robotics and Controls Seminar at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Jul ‘13: I gave an invited talk (virtual) in the WVU Summer Robotics Seminar Series at West Virginia University.
Mar ‘15: Our paper on Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning was accepted in Transactions on Robotics!
Feb ‘17: Our paper on Risk-Aware Decision Making for Multi-Robot Systems was accepted in Transactions on Robotics!
Feb ‘04: I gave an invited seminar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo.
Feb ‘04: I was awarded the DAAD AInet Fellowship!
Feb ‘02: I gave an invited seminar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University.
Feb ‘01: Our paper on Adaptive and Risk-Aware Target Tracking was conditionally accepted in RA-L+ICRA'2022.
Jan ‘31: Our paper on Robust Coordination Against Sensing and Communication Attacks was accepted as an invited paper in ACC'2022.
Jan ‘16: I gave an invited seminar in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
Jan ‘09: I gave an invited seminar in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems at the University of Hong Kong.