Dr. Zheng is a Tenured Associate Professor at Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), under the supervision of Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras (IEEE/AIAA/AAS Fellow). He obtained his Master's degree in Control Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supervised by Prof. Wang Hesheng, and his Bachelor's degree in Automation from Northeastern University.
His research interests include robot planning and control, autonomous robots, multi-robot systems, visual servoing, etc. He has been awarded the National Young Talent Program, Shanghai Young Talent Program, and Shanghai Pujiang Program. He is the principal investigator of the Youth Project of Natural Science Foundation under Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan. As a key team member, he has participated in US NSF projects, Georgia Tech/Ford Alliance projects, and collaborative research projects with Sandia National Laboratories.
His research works as the first author have been published in journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), ICRA, and IROS.
He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO) and Associate Editor for IEEE ICRA 2027. He is a regular reviewer for journals and conferences such as TRO, TIE, TII, TAC, RAL, TASE, RAS, ICRA, and IROS.