Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Prof. Zhenyu Gao obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His doctoral dissertation received the 2023 Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. Prior to joining HKUST, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin.
Last updated: 4/10/2026