Zhe Fu 傅哲

Hello, 你好！I’m Zhe, a Stanford Energy Fellow, co-hosted by Professor Eric Darve at Darve Lab and Professor Marco Pavone at ASL. I am also a Berkeley Lab Affiliate in the Energy Analysis Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

I completed my PhD in Transportation Engineering and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley in 2026, advised by Professor Alexandre Bayen. I was also fortunate to work with Professor Claire Tomlin. Additionally, I previously earned an MS in Transportation Engineering at UC Berkeley, a BS in Transportation Engineering at Tongji University, and a minor in Law at Fudan University.

During my time at Berkeley, I conducted research with Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Berkeley DeepDrive, and California PATH. I also completed research internships at Honda Research Institute and the Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute.

For more information, please refer to my CV .

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Research Interests

I develop physics-informed learning, control, and optimization methods for complex dynamical systems. My current research also explores agentic AI, LLM interpretability, and autonomous scientific discovery, with applications to mixed-autonomy, robotic, and multi-agent systems.

My work connects mathematical and physical structure with data-driven models to build autonomy that is interpretable, efficient, and reliable. It spans neural modeling of distributed-parameter systems, model-guided control and optimization, evidence-grounded explanation, and validation on real-world platforms.

I was a core student contributor to a 100-vehicle field operational test on I-24 in Nashville, TN, studying how a small number of automated vehicles can smooth traffic waves. Learn more about the CIRCLES field experiment, watch my three-minute UC Berkeley Grad Slam talk, which earned second place university-wide across all academic disciplines in the 2025 competition, or watch the longer version of my research talk, which won first prize in the H2H8 Research Presentation Competition.

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