Zheng Gong

Email: zhgong (at) ucsd.edu

Zheng Gong is a Ph.D. student in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His research interest lies in safety-critical systems. Currently, he focuses on finding connections between Control-Lyapunov Functions and Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis. He also has a broad interest in reinforcement learning and robotics.

Before joining UCSD, he received his master’s degree from Duke University, May 2021, where He studied stability for LTI systems with time delays. In June 2019, he completed his bachelor’s degree at the Beijing Institute of Technology.

In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, video games (CIV 5/6, 2K22, RDR2), and cooking (home-style Chinese food).

Related Papers

• Ganai, Milan, et al. "Iterative Reachability Estimation for Safe Reinforcement Learning." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (2023).

• He, Chong,* Gong,* Zheng, et al. "Efficient and Guaranteed Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability via Self-Contained Subsystem Decomposition and Admissible Control Sets." IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) and the American Control Conference (ACC), 2024.

• Gong,* Zheng, Zhao,* Muhan Thomas Bewley, and Sylvia Herbert. "Constructing Control Lyapunov-Value Functions using Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis" Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) and the American Control Conference (ACC), 2022.

• Gong, Zheng, and Leila Jasmine Bridgeman. "Conic Sector Based Stability Criteria for Time-Delay Systems." 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE, 2021.

*co-first authors