Chi Zhang is a Master’s student in Robotics at the University of Michigan with a focus on robot learning for locomotion and planning, and plans to pursue a PhD. He is currently conducting research on morphology-aware reinforcement learning for tensegrity robot locomotion in HDR Lab advised by Prof. Xiaonan Huang. Chi received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), where he worked in the CIUS Lab developing a pipeline for sensing-augmented UAV obstacle-aware trajectory planning.

Education

University of Michigan
MS, Robotics
Aug 2024 - May 2026 (expected)         GPA: 4.0/4.0

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering - Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Sep 2020 - June 2024         GPA: 3.71/4.3