January 2024–present: Tenure-track Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

February 2021–December 2023: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

2019–2021: Employment in industry.

September 2014–February 2019: PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics, specialising in Optimization and Systems Theory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

September 2011–March 2014: MSc in Control Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

September 2007–July 2011: BEng in Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Projects as Principal Investigator

National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program (62573286): Inverse Optimal Control Identification Algorithms for High-Dimensional Control-Affine Systems.

Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (25ZR1401208): Theory and Methods for Nonlinear Inverse Optimal Control Identification Based on Infinite-Dimensional Linear Representations.

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund (62103276): Linear-Quadratic Inverse Dynamic Games for Indistinguishable Agents.

Industrial Collaborations

Nanjing Kingyoung Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.: Motion Control of Legged–Wheeled Robots.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL): Humanoid Robot Motion Control.

ZF (China) Investment Co., Ltd.: Path Planning Algorithms for Heavy Commercial Vehicles.

ZF (China) Investment Co., Ltd.: Millimetre-Wave Radar-Based SLAM and Vehicle State Estimation.

ZF (China) Investment Co., Ltd.: Pedestrian Behaviour Prediction Algorithms Based on Dynamic Games.

Contributing Projects

National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFC3601403): Technology and Product Development for Intelligent Out-of-Bed Care Robots. Responsible for navigation and SLAM research.

National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFC2007500): Development of Multimodal Intelligent Mobility Aids. Responsible for navigation and SLAM research.

Motion Control Systems: Undergraduate course, 32 class periods. Designated a Shanghai Municipal First-Class Undergraduate Course in 2024; ranked second among the course contributors.

Comprehensive Robotics Practice: Undergraduate course, 32 class periods. Responsible for course development, teaching and assessment; course lead for the 2025 Shanghai Municipal Key Course development programme.

Nonlinear Control Theory: MSc and PhD course, 32 class periods, taught annually in English. Responsible for course development, teaching and assessment.

Academic Writing, Norms and Ethics: Postgraduate course. Co-developer, co-lecturer and examiner.

2026: First Prize, Young Teachers’ Teaching Competition, School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Third Prize, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Young Teachers’ Teaching Competition.

2025: First Prize, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Teaching Achievement Award (ranked fifth among seven contributors).

2024: First Prize, China University Teachers’ Robot Teaching Innovation Competition, Chinese Association of Automation.

2022: Honorable Mention, Guan Zhao-Zhi Award, 41st Chinese Control Conference. Award-winning paper: “Statistically Consistent Inverse Optimal Control for Linear-Quadratic Tracking with Random Time Horizon.”

Journal Articles

1. Ziliang Wang, Han Zhang and Xiaoming Hu, “Long-Run Average-Cost Nonlinear Inverse Optimal Control,” Journal of Systems Science & Complexity, accepted for publication.

2. Xingyi Li, Han Zhang, Ziliang Wang, Yukai Yang and Weidong Chen, “Registering the 4D millimeter wave radar point clouds via Generalized Method of Moments,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 204, article 105590, 2026.

3. Zehao Wang, Han Zhang, Jingchuan Wang and Weidong Chen, “Optimization-Based Trajectory Planning for Tractor-Trailer Vehicles on Curvy Roads: A Progressively Increasing Sampling Number Method,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 17194-17202, 2025.

4. Xiaotao Ren, Wenxiao Zhao and Han Zhang, “Recursive identification of nonlinear nonparametric systems under event-triggered observations,” Systems & Control Letters, vol. 196, article 106013, 2025.

5. Xinghan Li, Jianqi Chen, Han Zhang, Jieqiang Wei and Junfeng Wu, “Error Dynamics in Affine Group Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 2607-2614, 2025.

6. Han Zhang and Axel Ringh, “Statistically consistent inverse optimal control for discrete-time indefinite linear-quadratic systems,” Automatica, vol. 166, article 111705, 2024.

7. Han Zhang and Axel Ringh, “Inverse optimal control for averaged cost per stage linear quadratic regulators,” Systems & Control Letters, vol. 183, article 105658, 2024.

8. Kai Li, Han Zhang and Hesheng Wang, “Nonlinear Observer-Based Visual Servoing and Vibration Control of Flexible Robotic Manipulators With a Fixed Camera,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 4100-4110, 2024.

9. Kai Li, Fan Xu, Han Zhang and Hesheng Wang, “Visual servoing of flexible manipulators with unknown camera intrinsic parameters and vibration states,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 510-520, 2024.

10. Han Zhang and Axel Ringh, “Inverse linear-quadratic discrete-time finite-horizon optimal control for indistinguishable homogeneous agents: a convex optimization approach,” Automatica, vol. 148, article 110758, 2023.

11. Xingyi Li, Han Zhang and Weidong Chen, “4D radar-based pose graph SLAM with ego-velocity pre-integration factor,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 5124-5131, 2023.

12. Han Zhang, Yibei Li and Xiaoming Hu, “Discrete-time inverse linear quadratic optimal control over finite time-horizon under noisy output measurements,” Control Theory and Technology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 563-572, 2021.

13. Han Zhang, Jack Umenberger and Xiaoming Hu, “Inverse optimal control for discrete-time finite-horizon Linear Quadratic Regulators,” Automatica, vol. 110, article 108593, 2019.

14. Han Zhang, Jieqiang Wei, Peng Yi and Xiaoming Hu, “Projected primal-dual gradient flow of augmented Lagrangian with application to distributed maximization of the algebraic connectivity of a network,” Automatica, vol. 98, pp. 34-41, 2018.

15. Han Zhang and Xiaoming Hu, “Consensus control for linear systems with optimal energy cost,” Automatica, vol. 93, pp. 83-91, 2018.

16. Junxiang Wang, Han Zhang, Zehao Wang, Huaiyuan Chen, Pu Wang and Weidong Chen, “Koopman Model Predictive Control of An Origami-Inspired Soft Exoskeleton for Knee Rehabilitation,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, accepted for publication, 11 September 2026. Preprint: arXiv:2510.11094.

Conference Papers

1. Chuan Cao, Xiaoning Wang, Wenqian Xi, Han Zhang, Weidong Chen and Jingchuan Wang, “A 4D Radar Camera Extrinsic Calibration Tool Based on 3D Uncertainty Perspective N Points,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 8735-8740, 2025.

2. Zehao Wang, Han Zhang and Jingchuan Wang, “K-BMPC: Derivative-based Koopman Bilinear Model Predictive Control for Tractor-Trailer Trajectory Tracking with Unknown Parameters,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5808-5813, 2024.

3. Guanfeng Yu, Han Zhang, Zehao Wang and Jingchuan Wang, “A Real-time Local Planner Design for Smart Wheelchairs Based on Koopman Bilinear Model Predictive Control,” IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), pp. 504-509, 2024.

4. Weihan Jiang, Han Zhang and Ziliang Wang, “Identifying Tracking Motion Pattern in Rehabilitation Using Inverse Optimal Control,” China Automation Congress, pp. 8399-8404, 2023.

5. Han Zhang, Axel Ringh, Weihan Jiang, Shaoyuan Li and Xiaoming Hu, “Statistically Consistent Inverse Optimal Control for Linear-Quadratic Tracking with Random Time Horizon,” 41st Chinese Control Conference, pp. 1515-1522, 2022. Honorable Mention, Guan Zhao-Zhi Award.

6. Han Zhang, Yibei Li and Xiaoming Hu, “Inverse Optimal Control for Finite-Horizon Discrete-time Linear Quadratic Regulator Under Noisy Output,” 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6663-6668, 2019.

7. Yibei Li, Han Zhang, Yu Yao and Xiaoming Hu, “A Convex Optimization Approach to Inverse Optimal Control,” 37th Chinese Control Conference, pp. 257-262, 2018.

8. Han Zhang and Xiaoming Hu, “Optimal energy consensus control for linear multi-agent systems,” 36th Chinese Control Conference, pp. 2663-2668, 2017.

Preprints

1. Zehao Wang, Yuxuan Tang, Han Zhang, Jingchuan Wang and Weidong Chen, “U-OBCA: Uncertainty-Aware Optimization-Based Collision Avoidance via Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Chance Constraints,” arXiv:2603.04914, 2026.

2. Ziliang Wang, Axel Ringh and Han Zhang, “Consistent inverse optimal control for infinite time-horizon discounted nonlinear systems under noisy observations,” arXiv:2602.07874, 2026.

3. Ziliang Wang, Han Zhang and Axel Ringh, “Consistent inverse optimal control for discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems,” arXiv:2511.22579, 2025.

4. Yizhe Liu and Han Zhang, “Terrain-Awared LiDAR-Inertial Odometry for Legged-Wheel Robots Based on Radial Basis Function Approximation,” arXiv:2509.26222, 2025.

Textbook

Jingchuan Wang, Han Zhang, Hongshan Yu and Weidong Chen, Intelligent Robots and Motion Control, China Machine Press, 2024. ISBN 978-7-111-77669-7. (In Chinese.)