I am currently a lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Technology (School of Artificial Intelligence), Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.

Previously, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University, advised by Prof. Wu-Jun Li. I received my B.S. degree in Information and Computational Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University.

My research interests include:

• Reinforcement Learning
• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
• Reinforcement Learning in LLMs
• Continual Reinforcement Learning

Admissions

We are recruiting 1-2 Master’s students each year. Please send your CV and transcript to maxiao@zstu.edu.cn.

Selected Publications

• Grey-Box Adversarial Attack on Communication in Communicative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2025. [PDF]
• Clustered Reinforcement Learning. Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2024. [PDF]
• Weighted Online Decision Transformer with Episodic Memory for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning. IEEE ICRA, 2024. [PDF]
• Grey-box Adversarial Attack on Communication in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. AAMAS, 2023. [PDF]
• State-based Episodic Memory for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. Machine Learning Journal (MLJ), 2023. [PDF]

Services

Conference Reviewer

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)