Jinchang Zhang
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Georgia
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Jinchang Zhang is a robotics researcher at the University of Georgia working with Guoyu Lu on embodied control, legged locomotion, and biologically inspired communication architectures. His work addresses how distributed sensorimotor modules in a physical robot can coordinate under strict internal bandwidth budgets.
As first author of the September 2026 paper “FlyCNS: Connectome-Grounded Dynamic Sparse Communication for Embodied Control” (arXiv:2609.28816), Zhang extracted a directional effective-rank prior $(\tilde{p}^\uparrow, \tilde{p}^\downarrow)$ from the Drosophila central nervous system connectome and paired it with NeuroRoute, a Lagrangian primal-dual actor-critic router trained across 206.4 million environment interactions on a 12-joint Unitree Go1 quadruped. At a 25 percent communication budget, the connectome-guided router used only 1,755 to 1,823 bits per step out of 8,224 while reaching a 0.882 tracking score, outperforming periodic and unguided asymmetric baselines by wide margins.
Zhang’s profile is Builder, covered for translating insect connectome pathway organization into a quantitative, reproducible control law for embodied hardware.
Known for. FlyCNS connectome-grounded embodied control and NeuroRoute Lagrangian sparse communication for quadruped locomotion
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