Qing Zhao is the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

. Prior to joining Cornell, she held positions as a Systems Engineer at Aware, Incorporated (2001–2003) and on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the

University of California at Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. She is expert on sequential decision-making under uncertainty with a focus on infrastructure networks and communication systems.

Education

B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Sichuan University, 1994 M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Fudan University, 1997 Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Cornell University, 2001 Postdoc (Electrical Engineering), Cornell University, 2004

Awards

Zhao was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 ''for contributions to learning and decision theory in dynamic systems with applications to cognitive networking''. Other awards include the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow 2018–2019 and the Chancellor's Fellow 2010.

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