1996年毕业于黑龙江科技大学，获学士学位; 2001年、2005年毕业于哈尔滨工业大学，获硕士及博士学位

2006年-2008年在同济大学从事于博士研究工作;同年以“高层次人才”引进入北京化工大学信息科学与技术学院工作; 2014-2015 在King's College London进行学术访问。

首都科技领军人才培养工程 面向城市作战的六轮无人平台场景感知与理解技术研究 自适应地形的变刚度仿蛇搜救机器人机构设计及其柔顺控制研究 面向信息不完备的半导体制造过程动态调度理论与方法 高冗余柔性机器人机理与关键技术与样机研究 面向空间站舱内应用的蛇形机械臂机构创新设计及其柔顺

Zhengcai Cao(#)(*), Qing Xiao, Ran Huang, Mengchu Zhou, Robust Neuro-optimal Control of Underactuated Snake Robots with Experience Replay. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2017, 29(1): 208-217. (Top) Zhengcai Cao(#)(*), Qing Xiao, Mengchu Zhou(*), Distributed Fusion-based Policy Search for Fast Robot Locomotion Learning. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2019, 14(3): 19-28.(Top) Zhengcai Cao(#)(*), Xiaowen Xu, Biao Hu(*), Meng Zhou, Qinglin Li, Real-Time Gesture Recognition based on Feature Recalibration Network with Multi-Scale Information. Neurocomputing, 2019, 347: 119-130. (Top) Biao Hu, Zhengcai Cao(*), Mengchu Zhou(*). An Efficient RRT-based Framework for Planning Short and Smooth Wheeled Robot Motion under Kinodynamic Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2978701(Top) Meng Zhou, Zhengcai Cao(*), Mengchu Zhou(*), Jing Wang, Zhenhua Wang. Finite-Frequency H-/H∞Fault Detection for Discrete-Time T-S Fuzzy System with Unmeasurable Premise Variables.IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2019.2915050. (Top) Biao Hu, Zhengcai Cao(*). Minimizing Resource Consumption Cost of DAG Applications with Reliability Requirement on Heterogeneous Processor Systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2019.2959070. (Top) Meng Zhou, Zhengcai Cao(*), Mengchu Zhou(*), Jing Wang, Zhenhua Wang. Zonotopic Fault Estimation for Discrete-Time LPV Systems with Bounded Parametric Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2019, 21(2): 690-700. (Top) Biao Hu, Zhengcai Cao(*), Mengchu Zhou(*). Scheduling Real-time Parallel Applications in Cloud to Minimize Energy Consumption. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2019.2956498. Zhengcai Cao(#)(*), Chengran Lin, Mengchu Zhou(*).A Knowledge-based Cuckoo Search Algorithm to Schedule a Flexible Job Shop with Sequencing Flexibility. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2019.2945717. Zhengcai Cao(#)(*), Chengran Lin, Mengchu Zhou, Ran Huang(*). Scheduling Semiconductor Testing Facility by using Cuckoo Search Algorithm with Reinforcement Learning and Surrogate Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2019, 16(2): 825-837.