Jiarui Li

Walt Disney World, 2023

I am a PhD candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), affiliated with the Zardini Lab in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Gioele Zardini. Before joining MIT, I obtained my Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics Engineering from the College of Engineering at Peking University, and worked as a visiting undergraduate student in the Computational Robotics Group, advised by Prof. Heng Yang at School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University.

My research interests encompass a range of topics, including complex and interconnected system design, autonomous decision-making problems, multi-agent systems and game theory.

News

May 05, 2026	Happy to announce that I passed the PhD qualification exam, I am now officially a PhD candidate at MIT!
Jun 07, 2025	One paper Multi-Agent Path Finding via Finite-Horizon Hierarchical Factorization accepted to RSS 2025 Workshop on Fast motion planning and control in the era of parallelism and Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Multi-Robot Systems: Decision-Making, Coordination, and Learning. Looking forward to presenting the work in LA 🌴
Aug 19, 2024	I’m joining the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a grad student. Looking forward to future endeavors!
Jun 14, 2024	Happy to share that I received the (NAE) Grand Challenges Scholar Award and the Honor Graduates Award (Bachelor’s) from Peking University.
Feb 16, 2024	Honored to share that I received the Schoettler Fellowship from MIT CEE.
Sep 28, 2023	Thrilled to announce that the paper Sequential Manipulation Planning for Over-actuated Unmanned Aerial Manipulators on aerial manipulation at IROS 2023 won the Best Paper Finalist Award on Mobile Manipulation! Looking forward to presenting it at IROS!
Sep 20, 2023	Happy to announce that I have received the Chinese National Scholarship (top 0.2% among all the Chinese undergrads) for 2023.
Jul 03, 2023	Hello Boston! Grateful to be advised by Professor Heng Yang to start working as a visiting undergraduate researcher at the computational robotics research group at the SEAS, Harvard University.