{"id":2289,"date":"2025-06-30T23:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:42:36","slug":"mark-zhuang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/mark-zhuang","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zhuang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_4220__2x2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_4220__2x2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_4220__2x2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_4220__2x2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_4220__2x2-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_4220__2x2-440x440.jpg 440w, https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_4220__2x2-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Mark Zhuang is an M.Eng. student with the FSC Lab during the Summer of 2025. He was also an undergraduate thesis student from 2023 to 2024. His research focuses on drone defense systems, with a particular interest in reinforcement learning and collaborative behavior in swarming robotics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Drone defense, swarming robotics, reinforcement learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>M.Eng. \u2013 University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (2024\u20132025)<br>B.A.Sc. \u2013 University of Toronto \u2013 Engineering Science, Robotics Option (2020\u20132024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Web Pages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zhuang is an M.Eng. student with the FSC Lab during the Summer of 2025. He was also an undergraduate thesis student from 2023 to 2024. His research focuses on drone defense systems, with a particular interest in reinforcement learning <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/mark-zhuang\">Continue Reading &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-meng-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flight.utias.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}