Jianzhuang Zhao received his PhD from the Italian Institute of Technology and Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2024. Previously, he earned his B.Eng degree in mechanical engineering from Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, in 2018, and the M.Eng degree in the same major from the Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robots, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 2021. He is a postdoctoral researcher with the Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction (HRII) Lab at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy.
He was a finalist for the best paper on mobile manipulation at IROS 2022. His research focuses on robot learning, mobile manipulation, and human-robot interaction and collaboration.