Qing Zhao is the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University.[1] Prior to joining Cornell, she held positions as a Systems Engineer at Aware, Incorporated (2001–2003) and on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the University of California at Davis. She is expert on sequential decision-making under uncertainty with a focus on infrastructure networks and communication systems.
B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Sichuan University, 1994
M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Fudan University, 1997
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Cornell University, 2001
Postdoc (Electrical Engineering), Cornell University, 2004
Zhao was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013[2] for contributions to learning and decision theory in dynamic systems with applications to cognitive networking.
Other awards include the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow 2018–2019 and the Chancellor's Fellow 2010.