Shuang Gao is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal. Before joining Polytechnique Montreal, he was a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University and a research fellow at the Simons Institute at University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.

His research aims to discover fundamental properties of dynamics and control of systems that involve large populations of network-coupled decision makers, and achieve intelligent decision-making for such systems. Broadly, his research interests include control, game and learning theories for large networks, and their applications in social networks, epidemic networks, smart renewable energy grids and neuronal networks.