Group

I am actively looking for motivated PhD students to join my research group at Southeast University. I particularly welcome applicants with strong backgrounds in control theory, optimisation, reinforcement learning, or robotics who are enthusiastic about developing advanced control and decision-making methods for complex autonomous systems.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD under my supervision, please feel free to reach out to me via email at zhongguo.li@seu.edu.cn.

Hanbo Ma — 2025–Present
hanbo.ma@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Research Topic: Distributed resource allocation for learning agents, LLM
Publications: IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, Information Fusion (under review), IFAC2026 (accepted)

Donglin Li — 2024–Present
donglin.li@manchester.ac.uk
Research Topic: Autonomous search of nuclear release, Control of multi-agent systems
Publications: CCC2026

Khalid Ibrahim — 2024–Present
khalid.ibrahim-2@manchester.ac.uk
Research Topic: Formation control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems
Publications: CDC2026 (under review)

Chunyi Cao — 2024–Present
chunyi.cao@manchester.ac.uk
Research Topic: Dual control of exploration and exploitation, MPC
Publications: CCC2025, IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics (revision)

Yongjia Huang — 2024–Present
yongjia.huang@manchester.ac.uk
Research Topic: Control and optimisation of networked systems

Junan Wang — 2024–Present
junan.wang@manchester.ac.uk
Research Topic: Learning based methods for renewable energy

Christopher Blum — 2023–Present
christopher.blum@manchester.ac.uk
Research Topic: UAV Trajectory Optimisation
Publications: TROS2025

Tengyang Gong — 2023–Present
tengyang.gong@manchester.ac.uk
Research Topic: Distributed optimisation and learning
Publications: IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, CCC2025, IEEE-ICAC2025 (Best Theory Paper Award)