Yuzhen Qin

Office: MM 02.364

Email: yuzhen.qin@ru.nl

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Machine Learning and Neural Computing in Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University, the Netherlands. I am also a member of Dutch Brain Interface Initiative (DBI2), a multi-institute consortium.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Dec. 2019 from University of Groningen, the Netherlands, advised by Prof. Ming Cao. I received my M.E. from Wuhan University in 2015. From 2020 to 2023, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside.

Curent Research Topics

Modelling and Control for Brain Disorders Dynamics
Control of Complex Networks
Efficient Online Decision-Making (Reinforcement Learning and Bandits)
Data-Driven Control

News

Dec 9, 2025	We have submitted two papers to IFAC Congress 2026.: Control of Discrete-Time Linear Systems with Charge-Balanced Inputs Using Seminorms To Analyze Contraction of Switched Systems With Only Non-Contracting Modes
Aug 21, 2025	Our paper “Vibrational Control of Complex Networks” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.
Jun 10, 2025	Our paper entitled “Synchronization and Control in Bistable Oscillator Networks: Towards Epilepsy Regulation” has been accepted to IEEE L-CSS and IEEE CDC 2025.
Mar 7, 2025	Our paper has been accepted to IEEE ECC 2025.
Feb 5, 2025	I gave a talk on “vibrational control and epileptic modeling” to the Jan C. Willem Center for Systems and Control at the University of Groningen. It was a great pleasure to go back to Groningen. Thanks, Ming, for hosting me!

Selected Publications

Y. Qin, Y. Li, F. Pasqualetti, M. Fazel, and S. Oymak, Stochastic contextual bandits with long horizon rewards, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Feb 2023 arXiv Bib HTML

@article{2023:AAAI:bandits,
  title = {Stochastic contextual bandits with long horizon rewards},
  doi = {10.1609/aaai.v37i8.26140},
  number = {8},
  journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  author = {Qin, Yuzhen and Li, Yingcong and Pasqualetti, Fabio and Fazel, Maryam and Oymak, Samet},
  year = {2023},
  month = feb,
  pages = {9525-9533},
  volume = {37},
}

Y. Qin, T. Menara, D. Bassett, and F. Pasqualetti, Phase-amplitude coupling in neuronal oscillator networks, Physical Review Research, Jun 2021 Bib HTML

@article{2021: PRResearch,
  title = {Phase-amplitude coupling in neuronal oscillator networks},
  author = {Qin, Yuzhen and Menara, Tommaso and Bassett, Danielle S. and Pasqualetti, Fabio},
  journal = {Physical Review Research},
  volume = {3},
  issue = {2},
  pages = {023218},
  numpages = {8},
  year = {2021},
  month = jun,
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023218},
}