Zhi-Hong Mao

Education

• Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Cambridge, MA
• Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from HST, June 2006 (expected); or as Ph.D. in Electrical and Medical Engineering from MIT, September 2005
• Supervisors: Steve G. Massaquoi and Eric M. Feron
• The other advisor in the committee: Munther A. Dahleh
• Dissertation: Modeling the role of the basal ganglia in motor control and motor programming
• GPA: 5.0/5.0. Courses

• MIT, Cambridge, MA
• S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, September 2000
• Supervisor: Eric M. Feron
• Thesis: Stability and performance of intersecting aircraft flows under decentralized conflict resolution
• GPA: 5.0/5.0. Courses

• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• M.Eng. with Honors in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control, July 1998
• Supervisor: Yan-Da Li
• Thesis: Function approximation capabilities of fuzzy systems and random neural networks
• GPA: 92/100 (ranked 1st in a class of 76). Courses

• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• Dual Bachelor's Degrees with Honors in Automatic Control and Applied Mathematics, July 1995

• Advisors: Liang-Jie Zhang and Xu-Guang Lu

• GPA: 90/100 (ranked 1st in a class of 31). Courses

Experience

• Research Assistant, Harvard-MIT HST, Cambridge, MA, 9/2000-8/2005
• Clerk in clinical medicine with elective in neurology, Mount Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 1/2003-2/2003 and 5/2003-7/2003
• Research Assistant, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 9/1998-8/2000

Publications

Journal Papers

• E. Gelenbe, Z.-H. Mao, and Y.-D. Li, Function approximation by random neural networks with a bounded number of layers, Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, vol. 12, no. 1 and 2, pp. 143-170, 2004.
• Z.-H. Mao, E. Feron, and K. Bilimoria, Stability of intersecting aircraft flows under decentralized conflict avoidance rules, IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 101-109, 2001.
• E. Frazzoli, Z.-H. Mao, J.-H. Oh, and E. Feron, Resolution of conflicts involving many aircraft via semidefinite programming, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 79-86, 2001.
• E. Gelenbe, Z.-H. Mao, and Y.-D. Li, Function approximation by spiked random networks, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 3-9, 1999.
• Z.-H. Mao, Y.-D. Li, and X.-F. Zhang, Approximation capability of fuzzy systems using translations and dilations of one fixed function as membership functions, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 468-473, 1997.
• Z.-H. Mao, Y.-D. Li, and Z.-R. Sun, Comments on fuzzy systems approximation by frames - SISO case, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 100, pp. 373-375, 1998.
• Z.-H. Mao, X.-F. Zhang, and Y.-D. Li, On universal approximation capability of fuzzy systems, Science in China (Series E), vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 6-12, 1998.
• L.-J. Zhang, Z.-H. Mao, and Y.-D. Li, Mathematical analysis of mutation operator in genetic algorithms and its improved strategy, Journal of Electronics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 154-158, 1997.
• Z.-H. Mao and Y.-L. Lin, Extended random neural network model and its probability structure features, Journal of Tsinghua University, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 100-103, 1998. (in Chinese)
• T. Zhang, Z.-H. Mao, and S.-W. Xia, A new method to extract handwritten numerals overlapping position lines, Journal of Chinese Information, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 25-30, 1998. (in Chinese)

Selected Conference Papers

• Z.-H. Mao and E. Feron, Stability of intersecting aircraft flows under sequential conflict resolution, in Proc. of 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, USA, no. 2, pp. 722-729, 2001.
• D. Dugail, Z.-H. Mao, and E. Feron, Stability of intersecting aircraft flows under centralized and decentralized conflict avoidance rules, in AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 6-9, 2001.
• K. Bilimoria, H. Q. Lee, Z.-H. Mao, and E. Feron, Comparison of centralized and decentralized conflict resolution strategies for multiple-aircraft problems, in AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Denver, USA, Aug. 14-17, 2000.
• L.-J. Zhang, Z.-H. Mao, and Y.-D. Li, Mathematical analysis of crossover operator in genetic algorithm and its improved strategy, in IEEE Int. Conf. on Evolutionary Computing, Australia, pp. 412-417, Dec. 1995.
• L.-J. Zhang, Z.-H. Mao, and Y.-D. Li, An improved genetic algorithm based on combinatorial theory and fuzzy reasoning and its applications, in Proc. of Int. Conf. on Neural Information Processing, Korea, pp. 180-185, Nov. 1994.

Honors and Awards

• Medical Engineering and Medical Physics Fellowship, Harvard-MIT HST, 2003
• Zakhartchenko Fellowship, MIT, 2002 and 2001
• David and Beatrice Yamron Fellowship, Harvard-MIT HST, 2000
• Outstanding Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 1999
• Outstanding M.Eng. Graduate, Tsinghua University, 1998
• Tsinghua Top Grade Scholarship (highest honor for students of Tsinghua University), 1997
• Outstanding B.Eng. Graduate, Tsinghua University, 1995
• IBM Scholarship, 1994
• Second Prize, National Electronics Design Contest for College Students, China, 1994
• First Prize, National Mathematical Contest in Modeling for College Students, China, 1993
• First Prize (ranked 1st), Physics Competition for High School Students, Hebei Province, China, 1989
• First Prize, Mathematical Competition for High School Students, Hebei Province, China, 1989