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Qing Zhao

Qing Zhao is an electrical engineer whose research spans machine learning, sequential decision theory and their applications in communication networks. She earned electrical-engineering degrees at Sichuan University, Fudan University and Cornell, then worked at Aware and UC Davis before joining Cornell in 2015. She coauthored a 2007 survey of dynamic spectrum access that received the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award in 2010, and IEEE named her a Fellow in 2013. Her later research included active learning for traffic-event detection and a book on multi-armed bandits, and she is the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering at Cornell.

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Timeline

  1. 1994–2001

    Electrical engineering degrees

    She earns a B.S. in electrical engineering from Sichuan University in 1994 and an M.S. from Fudan University in 1997. She completes a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Cornell University in 2001.

  2. 2001–2015

    From Aware to UC Davis

    She works as a system engineer at Aware, Inc. from 2001 to 2003, then joins the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis in 2004 and serves as a professor there through 2015.

  3. 2010

    Dynamic spectrum access

    In 2007, she coauthors “A Survey of Dynamic Spectrum Access” with Brian M. Sadler. The IEEE Signal Processing Society gives the paper its IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award in 2010.

  4. 2013

    IEEE Fellow

    IEEE elevates her to Fellow in 2013 for contributions to learning and decision theory in dynamic systems with applications to cognitive networking.

  5. 2018–2019

    Chalmers active-learning project

    During 2018–2019, she holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and joins a Chalmers project on active learning for traffic-event detection. The project aims to teach a connected vehicle safety system to detect rare events. In 2019, she serves as a Jubilee Professor hosted by Chalmers' Electrical Engineering department.

  6. 2019

    A book on multi-armed bandits

    In 2019, she publishes Multi-Armed Bandits: Theory and Applications to Online Learning in Networks. The book covers Bayesian and frequentist bandit models and uses examples from communication networks and social-economic systems.

  7. As of October 2026

    Professor at Cornell

    She is the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering in Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She joins Cornell in 2015, and her research includes sequential decision theory, machine learning, stochastic optimization and algorithmic theory with applications in infrastructure, communications, and social-economic networks.

Career

  1. NowCornell UniversityJoseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering
  2. 2004–2015University of California, DavisProfessor
  3. 2001–2003Aware, Inc.System Engineer
  4. Chalmers University of TechnologyJubilee Professor

Education

  1. 2001Cornell UniversityPh.D.
  2. 1997Fudan UniversityM.S.
  3. 1994Sichuan UniversityB.S.

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Checked career sources: en.wikipedia.org, research.chalmers.se, chalmers.se, duffield.cornell.edu, zhao.ece.cornell.edu.

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  1. Qing Zhao en.wikipedia.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. Qing Zhao | Cornell Duffield Engineering duffield.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Announced signalprocessingsociety.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. IEEE Fellows 2010-2019 comsoc.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. Active Learning for event detection in large-scale information networks. research.chalmers.se. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. Jubilee professors chalmers.se. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. Markov Decision Theory and Reinforcement Learning – Qing Zhao zhao.ece.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  8. Multi-Armed Bandits: Theory and Applications to Online Learning in Networks - Qing Zhao - Google Books books.google.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  9. Faculty and Staff | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Cornell Duffield Engineering duffield.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  10. Qing Zhao – Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering zhao.ece.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.