Haosheng Zhou

Haosheng

Instructor
Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Princeton University
Sherrerd Hall, 98 Charlton Street
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Email: hz9769@princeton.edu
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About me

I am an incoming instructor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics and Applied Probability in June 2026 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I had the privilege of being advised by Professor Ruimeng Hu. My research focuses on stochastic control and games, multi-agent systems, and learning methods for decision-making problems.

Research Interests: Education: Publications (code available on GitHub):
  1. Optimal Design of Stealthy Attacks in Partially Observed Linear Systems: A Likelihood-Based Approach, joint work with R. Hu
    Submitted
  2. Deception in Linear-Quadratic Control, joint work with Y. Kim, A. Benvenuti, R. Hu, M. Hale
    Submitted
  3. Strategic Inference in Stackelberg Games: Optimal Control for Revealing Adversary Intent, joint work with D. Ralston, X. Yang, R. Hu
    Submitted
  4. Learning Mean-Field Games through Mean-Field Actor-Critic Flow, joint work with M. Zhou, R. Hu
    Submitted
  5. Finite-Agent Stochastic Differential Games on Large Graphs: II. Graph-Based Architectures, joint work with R. Hu, J. Long
    Accepted by Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
  6. Adversarial Decision-Making in Partially Observable Multi-Agent Systems: A Sequential Hypothesis Testing Approach, joint work with D. Ralston, X. Yang, R. Hu
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2026.3690569 [arXiv] [Journal]
  7. Integrating Sequential Hypothesis Testing into Adversarial Games: A Sun Zi-Inspired Framework, joint work with D. Ralston, X. Yang, R. Hu
    In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2025, DOI: 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312291 [arXiv] [Conference]
  8. Finite-Agent Stochastic Differential Games on Large Graphs: I. The Linear-Quadratic Case, joint work with R. Hu, J. Long
    Applied Mathematics & Optimization, DOI: 10.1007/s00245-025-10309-8 [arXiv] [Journal]
  9. Detecting Boolean Asymmetric Relationships with a Loop Counting Technique and its Implications for Analyzing Heterogeneity within Gene Expression Datasets, H. Zhou, W. Lin, S.R. Labra, S.A. Lipton, J.A. Elman, N.J. Schork, A.V. Rangan
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2024.3487434 [bioRxiv] [Journal]
  10. Approximation Algorithms and PTAS of the Minimum Dominating Set and the 3-Path Vertex Cover Problem on Unit Disk Graphs, H. Zhou, J. Tu, Y. Kong
    Bachelor Thesis, not to be published
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