Zhiqi Tang

Zhiqi Tang is a Digital Futures Postdoctoral Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Division of Decision and Control Systems (EECS Department), supervised by Professors Jonas Mårtensson and Karl Henrik Johansson. She previously held positions as a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Portugal and as an Invited Assistant Professor in their Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She holds a double Ph.D. in Automatic Control and Robotics from IST and I3S-CNRS (Université Côte d'Azur), receiving the EDSTIC Ph.D. thesis prize, and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Macau (2015).

Her research focuses on estimation, control, and decision-making in multi-agent systems, with applications in Robotics and Transportation Systems. Key areas include cooperative estimation, networked systems, nonlinear dynamics, and formation control. She teaches the Nonlinear Control (EL2620) course at KTH.

Her recent work emphasizes safe platooning for autonomous vehicles, collision avoidance in UAV formations, and distributed localization under dynamic conditions. Notable contributions include barrier function-based control for CAVs and bearing-rigidity theory for multi-agent coordination. Her research bridges theoretical control frameworks with practical implementations in robotics and transportation.

• Awards: EDSTIC Ph.D. thesis prize (2021)
• Grants/Advising: Supervises postdoctoral and doctoral research in multi-agent systems
• Labs/Teams: Involved with KTH's Decision and Control Systems group and IST's Institute for Systems and Robotics