{"id":29,"date":"2013-02-26T21:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T21:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/template\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:31:47","slug":"faculty-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Kong, Zhaodan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Associate Professor Zhaodan Kong<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>(pronounced as \u201c<\/em><em><span class=\"IPA\" title=\"Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)\">d\u0292<\/span><\/em><em>-ao-Dan Kong\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<br \/>\n2094 Bainer Hall<br \/>\nUniversity of California<br \/>\nDavis, CA 95616<\/p>\n<p>Email: zdkong@ucdavis.edu<br \/>\nPhone: 530-752-2796<\/p>\n<p>Office Hour (Spring 2026): 11:00-11:50 am Mondays<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests:<\/h3>\n<p>Control theory, machine learning, formal methods, and their applications to autonomous systems, human-autonomy teaming, cyber-physical systems, and neural engineering<\/p>\n<h3>Laboratory Website:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cphslab.com\/index.html\">\u00a0Cyber-Human-Physical Systems Lab<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Zhaodan Kong (pronounced as \u201cd\u0292-ao-Dan Kong\u201d) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 2094 Bainer Hall University of California Davis, CA 95616 Email: zdkong@ucdavis.edu Phone: 530-752-2796 Office Hour (Spring 2026): 11:00-11:50 am Mondays Research Interests: Control theory, machine learning, formal methods, and their applications to autonomous systems, human-autonomy teaming, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}