Hao Zhu is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg. He is a member of the Neurorobotics group led by Prof. Joschka Boedecker. His current research topics involve the application of convex optimization in machine learning and scientific computation.

Hao Zhu received a B.Sc. degree in computational Chemical Biology from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) in 2020, with advisors Prof. Xin Wen and Prof. Zhen Xi. He received a M.Sc. degree in Neuroscience from University of Freiburg in 2023, with advisors Prof. Ilka Diester and Prof. Joschka Boedecker. He began his Ph.D. in 2024.