Yuanji Zou

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities . Mobile 612-552-8249 Email bobby150928@outlook.com.

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2-127 Kenneth H.Keller Hall

200 Union Street Se

Minneapolis, MN 55455

I’m a Ph.D. candidate at University of Minnesota, advised by Dr. Elia with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. My research focus on the Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning problems and Partially Observable Markov Decision Process. I’m interested in how model-based reinforcement learning techniques—and the resulting policies—can significantly enhance the performance of multi-agent systems, with potential applications in large-scale cooperative tasks. Aware of the inherent limitations and modeling inaccuracies in such approaches, I also investigate robustness guarantees to ensure reliable performance under uncertainty. Any discussions with me on the topics and applications are warmly welcomed.

news

Sep 11, 2025 It’s my pleasure to announce that my recent work on distributed \(\ell_1\) control has been accepted by CDC 2025.
Apr 07, 2025 My work on \(\ell_1\) optimal feedback control of distributed system is submitted for review to CDC 2025.
Dec 15, 2024 My recent work "Algebraic Riccati equation approach for network distributed optimal H2 synthesis" was presented on Conference of Decision and Control, 2024 in Milan, Italy.
Jul 06, 2022 Due to the pandamic, I remotely presented my new work “Robust Mean Square Stability” on European Control Conference, 2022.

latest posts

selected publications

  1. A quadratic programming approach for network distributed l1 optimal control
    Yuanji Zou, and Nicola Elia
    In 2025 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2025
  2. Algebraic Riccati equation approach for network distributed optimal H2 synthesis
    Yuanji Zou, and Nicola Elia
    In 2024 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2024
  3. A Synthesis Approach for Distributed H2 Control Problems with Communication Delays
    Yuanji Zou, and Nicola Elia
    In 2024 60th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2024
  4. Robust mean square stability
    Yuanji Zou, and Nicola Elia
    In 2022 European Control Conference (ECC), 2022