Qing Zhao


Qing Zhao, is the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, she held positions as a Systems Engineer at Aware, Incorporated and on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the University of California at Davis. She is expert on sequential decision-making under uncertainty with a focus on infrastructure networks and communication systems.

Education

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

Awards

Zhao was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 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.