Zhongguo Li is currently a Lecturer in Robotics, Control, Communication and AI at the University of Manchester. He received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Manchester, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. Before re-joining Manchester in September 2023, he worked as a Lecturer at University College London (10/2022-09/2023) and a Research Associate at Loughborough University (11/2020-10/2022).

His research interests include optimisation and decision-making for advanced control, distributed algorithm development for game and learning in network connected multi-agent systems, and their applications in robotics and autonomous vehicles. In these research fields, he has authored or co-authored more than 30 papers in well-recognised journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, etc. He has published a book Distributed Optimization and Learning (Academic Press, Elsevier, 2024).

Dr. Li serves as an Associate Editor for Drones and Autonomous Vehicles, and a Guest Editor for Machines, Frontiers in Control Engineering. He is an active reviewer for top journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Automatica, etc.

Dr. Li is currently lecturing the following units:

• EEEN30231: Control Systems II
• EEEN64401: Control Fundamentals and Process Automation
• EEEN60252: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Systems

and serving as a tutor for 

• EEEN21000 Embedded Systems Project