Publications: Multiple papers accepted by AAAI 2026, IEEE TASE, CAAI TIT, NeurIPS 2025, ACSAC 2025, Frontiers of Computer Science, Autonomous Robots, ICML 2025 Spotlight (top 2.6% of 12,107 submissions), WWW 2025, DAI 2024, ICML 2024, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, WWW 2024 (Oral presentation), AAMAS 2024, NeurIPS 2023, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IJCAI 2023, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, AAMAS 2023, AAAI 2023.
Awards: Distinguished Program Committee Member Award, IJCAI, 2023; The Best Paper Award, 20th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC 2022); Outstanding Reviewer, ICML 2022 (top 10% of reviewers).
Research Experience
Currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was an Assistant Professor from August 2022 to April 2025. Before joining CAIR, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University, USA, and Dartmouth College, USA, working with Professor V.S. Subrahmanian.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, advised by Professor Bo An; Bachelor and Master degrees from Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Background
Research interests include Agentic AI, multi-agent systems, computational game theory, multi-agent reinforcement learning, LLM for game theory, AI governance, AI for science, AI for drug discovery, and decision making in complex environments including security and healthcare.
Miscellany
Email: youzhi dot zhang dot lgc@gmail dot com
Address: Room 301-303, 305-309, 317-320, 3/F, 17W, Science Park West Avenue, Hong Kong Science Park, Pak Shek Kok, New Territories, Hong Kong