Zhen Gao earned her BSc from Shandong Technology and Business University in 2015, her MSc from Qingdao University in 2018, and her PhD from Chongqing University in 2024. She was a visiting PhD candidate at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2022 to 2023. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests encompass neural networks, adaptive control, fault-tolerant control, quantitative control, and event-triggered mechanisms.