🎓 About Me
Welcome to Finley’s personal page!
My name is Fandi Gou (苟凡棣). I was born in Sichuan Chengdu, China, in Mar 2001. I am currently a Ph.D. student in Control Science and Engineering at the School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a visiting scholar in Computer Science at King’s College London for the 2026–2027 academic year. I graduated as Shanghai Municipal Outstanding Graduate (top 5% of graduates) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Jun 2023 with a B.E. degree from the Department of Automation, SEIEE school. Prior to that, I graduated from Chengdu No.7 High School with honor.
I was nominated as the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Annual Person of the Year on behalf of School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing in 2025. I have twice received the National Scholarship (in 2022 and 2025), a prestigious award granted to the top 0.2% of students nationwide, and the SJTU A-Grade Merit Scholarship (2020). Beyond academics, my contributions to the student community have been acknowledged through the Outstanding Student Cadre and Merit Student honors. I had served as the Chair of CAA-SJTU Student Branch from 2024 to 2026.
My research focuses on developing efficient and reliable solutions for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). I have widely investigated cooperative and competitive tasks including encirclement control, formation control, navigation, three-party confrontation, and coverage control–by integrating Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) or traditional methods. I am particularly interested in addressing challenges in MAS like limited communication and agent safety by incorporating Graph Neural Networks and Safe DRL techniques.
Looking forward, I aim to enhance the Sample Efficiency of RL algorithms by leveraging control-theoretic Guide Policy, and construct a rigorous mathematical framework that bridges reinforcement learning and control theory from a novel perspective. Also, I have a strong interest in Continual Reinforcement Leanring (CRL).
☎️ Contact
800 Dongchuan RD. Minhang District, 200240, Shanghai, China
+86 18280193345
Mail me: [SJTU] / [QQ] / [KCL]
WeChat: Finley-Gou3
🔥 News
- 2026.10: 🎉 Going to King’s!!! A new journey begins~🤩😎💖
- 2026.09: 🎉 Our paper accepted by Neurocomputing!
- 2026.07: 🎙 Awarded the Most Thoughtful Award at the 2026 RL Summer School by Richard Sutton.
- 2026.05: 🎉 Receive a scholarship from China Scholarship Council!
- 2026.04: 🎉 Our paper accepted by IFAC World Congress 2026!
- 2026.02: 🎉 Our paper accepted by Neural Networks(NN)!
- 2025.12: 🎉 Awarded as the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Annual Person of the Year (nominee)!
- 2025.10: 🎙 Represented the CAA-SJTU Student Branch at the CAC and delivered a presentation.
- 2025.09: 🎉 Received the National Scholarship for Graduate Students!
- 2025.06: 🎉 Our paper accepted by IROS 2025!
- 2025.04: 🎉 Our paper accepted by TNNLS!
- 2024.11: 🎉 Won the First Prize at the 19th “Challenge Cup” National Academic Science and Technology Works Competition!
- 2023.12: 🎙 Addressed the assembly at the 65th Anniversary Celebration of the Department of Automation
- 2023.06: 🎓 Graduated from SJTU with outstanding graduate award!
🏆 Honors and Awards
- Awarded a scholarship from China Scholarship Council, May 2026.
- Nominated as Shanghai Jiao Tong University Annual Person of the Year, Nov 2025
- National Scholarship; 2×recipient, Nov 2022 and Oct 2025
- SJTU Outstanding Leadership Award; May 2025
- SJTU Outstanding Student Cadre; Oct 2024
- Shanghai Municipal Outstanding Graduate, Jun 2023
- Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Honorable Mention; Apr 2020 and Apr 2022
- SJTU Merit Student; Nov 2020, Oct 2021
- SJTU A-Grade Merit Scholarship; Dec 2020