Prof. Zhan Gao is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. He received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (Luogeng Hua Mathematics Class) from Beihang University, M.Eng. degree in Signal and Information Processing from Peking University, and M.S.E. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong in 2026, he worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London and a Visiting Academic in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Prof. Gao’s research mainly focuses on multi-robot systems, with particular interests in their safety-critical control and intelligent coordination. He has received several awards such as the Ganster Engineering Fellowship, the Manjushri Fellowship, and the Best Paper Award Finalist in IEEE MRS 2023.