Bio
Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2022M.S., University of Alberta, 2018B.S., Fudan University, 2016Shangtong Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, he received his DPhil degree at the University of Oxford, MSc degree at the University of Alberta, and BSc degree at Fudan University. The goal of his research is to solve sequential decision making problems in a scalable and reliable way. Currently, he focuses on reinforcement learning as a solution method. His work won the best paper award at AAMAS. He spent some time at Microsoft Research and DeepMind during his DPhil.