John Z. Zhang
70 Vassar St,
Cambridge, MA, 02142
I am a robotics Ph.D. candidate at MIT AeroAstro advised by Zac Manchester in the MIT REx Lab.
Before moving to MIT, I was a Ph.D. candidate in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a research intern at the Robotics and AI Institute. I received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master’s degree in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
research
I’m interested in making robots interact with the world with agility, dexterity, and reliability. My research focuses on computational methods by leveraging insights from numerical optimization and machine learning.
