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Fan Zhang
Mid-level Robotics & Control Researcher specializing in safe control for UAVs and manipulators
Houston, TXGraduate Research Assistant (Robotics & Safe Control)9 years experienceMid-LevelRoboticsAerospace & DefenseAviation
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Robotics software engineer who led an end-to-end learning-based UAV controller project, addressing oscillation issues through simulation, gain tuning, and a shift to geometric control. Has ROS experience spanning UAV mocap-based perception and an autonomous driving stack (LiDAR, mapping, AMCL, controller), plus real-world distributed ROS communication over WiFi with performance troubleshooting.
Experience
Graduate Research Assistant (Robotics & Safe Control)University of Houston
Visiting Scholar / Robotics ResearcherCarnegie Mellon University (DRIVE Lab)
Research AssistantCleveland State University
Graduate Research & Teaching AssistantIowa State University
System Engineer InternAVIC Leihua Rockwell Collins Avionics Company
Research Assistant (Haptics & Robotics)Virtual Reality Application Center (VRAC)
Education
University of Houstondoctorate, Electrical Engineering (2026)
Iowa State Universitymaster, Electrical and Computer Engineering (2019)
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunicationsbachelor, Telecommunications Engineering (2016)
Key Strengths
- Led end-to-end development of a learning-based UAV controller
- Systematic debugging workflow: simulation-first, safe hardware tuning, extensive logging
- Resolved controller oscillation via simulation, gain tuning, and switching to geometric control design
- Hands-on ROS integration across UAV perception (mocap) and autonomous driving stack (LiDAR, mapping, AMCL, controller)
- Practical experience troubleshooting distributed ROS over WiFi under high-frequency/embedded constraints
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