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09/2026: Three papers are accepted to Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026)!
08/2026: We received an Amazon Research Award to investigate world action models for robotic manipulation. Thanks Amazon!
08/2026: Prof. Li is invited to give a keynote talk at the IROS 2026 Workshop on Social Robot Navigation!
08/2026: We received an NSF Award to investigate smart collaborative aerial logistics ecosystem for urban on-demand delivery!
07/2026: We will be organizing a CoRL 2026 Workshop on Human-Centered Robot Learning and Interaction: Toward Reliable and Scalable Autonomy in Human Environments!
07/2026: Prof. Li is invited to serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2027 and Associate Editor for ICRA 2027!
06/2026: Four papers [1][2][3][4] are accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026)!
05/2026: Prof. Li is invited to serve as an Area Chair for CoRL 2026!
04/2026: Prof. Li is invited to give a keynote talk at the IROS 2026 Workshop on Foundation Models in Multi-Robot Systems!
03/2026: We received an NVIDIA Academic Grant to investigate long-tail generalization for VLA driving. Thanks NVIDIA!
03/2026: Prof. Li is invited to serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026!
03/2026: One survey paper about Motion Prediction is accepted to Foundations and Trends in Robotics!
02/2026: Two papers [1][2] are accepted to the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026)!
02/2026: Prof. Li is invited to give a keynote talk at the ICRA 2026 Workshop on Shared Challenges in Human-Centered and Resilient Robotic Autonomy!
02/2026: Prof. Li is invited to give a keynote talk at the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Multi-Agent Embodied Intelligent Systems Meet Generative AI Era!
01/2026: Five papers [1][2][3][4][5] are accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026)!
01/2026: Prof. Li is invited to serve on the Management Committee of the new IEEE Transactions on Robot Learning!
01/2026: Prof. Li is invited to serve as a Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Robot Learning!
12/2025: We received a U.S. DOT NCST Grant (National UTC) to support our research!
12/2025: We received two RAISE Seed Grants to support our research!
12/2025: Prof. Li is invited to serve as an Area Chair for ECCV 2026!
12/2025: One paper is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!
11/2025: Our paper received the Best Paper Award at the ACM MM 2025 Workshop on Multimodal Foundation Models for Spatial Intelligence!
10/2025: One paper is accepted to AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)!
09/2025: One paper is accepted to Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)!
09/2025: Prof. Li is invited to serve on the Organizing Committee for RSS 2026!
08/2025: We received an NSF Award to investigate Trustworthy and Resilient Intelligence for Multi-Agent Systems!
08/2025: Prof. Li will give an invited keynote talk at the DriveX Workshop on Foundation Models for V2X-Based Cooperative Autonomous Driving at ICCV 2025!
08/2025: Prof. Li is invited to serve as an Area Chair/Associate Editor for CVPR 2026, ICLR 2026, ICRA 2026, and IV 2026!
08/2025: One paper is accepted to Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2025)!
08/2025: One paper is accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025 Findings)!
08/2025: Prof. Li will co-organize ICCV 2025 Workshop on End-to-End 3D Learning!
07/2025: Prof. Li is invited as a Guest Editor for a IEEE T-RO Special Issue on Foundation Models for Robotics!
06/2025: Our paper is selected as a Best Paper Award Finalist at the RSS 2025 Workshop on Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Robotics!
06/2025: Prof. Li gave an invited talk at the 2nd MEIS Workshop at CVPR 2025!
06/2025: Two papers [1][2] are accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2025)!
06/2025: Two papers [1][2] are accepted to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) as oral presentations!
05/2025: One paper is accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)!
04/2025: One paper is accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2025)!
03/2025: One paper is accepted to IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)!
02/2025: One paper is accepted to International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)!
02/2025: One paper is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!
01/2025: Prof. Li received two research grants from SoCal OASIS!
01/2025: One paper is accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)!
12/2024: Prof. Li is invited to serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics!
12/2024: One paper is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!
11/2024: One paper is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!
10/2024: One paper is accepted to Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024!
08/2024: Prof. Li is invited to serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2025 and CVPR 2025!
07/2024: Prof. Li received the UC Regents Faculty Fellowship!
07/2024: Prof. Li received a new research grant from NSF to investigate Integrated Perception and Planning for Autonomous Agents!
06/2024: Prof. Li is invited to serve as a Senior Program Committee for AAMAS 2025 and an Associate Editor for ICRA 2025!
05/2024: Prof. Li will organize the Southern California Robotics Symposium (SCR 2024)!
04/2024: One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)!
03/2024: One paper is accepted to the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2024)!
02/2024: Prof. Li is invited to serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2024 and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!
02/2024: One paper is accepted to the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024)!
01/2024: Two papers [1][2] are accepted to the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)!
12/2023: Prof. Li organized Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving workshop (ML4AD 2023).
11/2023: One paper is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
10/2023: One paper is accepted to the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024)!
08/2023: Prof. Li is named as an ASME DSCD Rising Star and will give a talk at MECC 2023!
07/2023: Two papers (robust policy learning; game-theoretic planning) are accepted to the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2023)!
06/2023: Prof. Li gave an invited talk at IEEE IV 2023 Workshop on Social and Interactive and Safe Behaviors for Intelligent Vehicles: Benchmark, Models, and Applications!
06/2023: Prof. Li organized three IEEE IV 2023 workshops: Workshop on Socially Interactive Autonomous Mobility (SIAM) , Workshop on Interaction-driven Behavior Prediction and Planning for Autonomous Vehicles, and Workshop on 3D-Deep Learning for Automated Driving!
01/2023: One paper about pedestrian action recognition and motion prediction is accepted to ICRA 2023!
10/2022: Prof. Li served on the program committee of RSS 2023 Pioneers Workshop at RSS 2023!
09/2022: Two papers about interaction modeling and physical dynamics modeling are accepted to NeurIPS 2022!
08/2022: Organizing NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving and NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Progress and Challenges in Trustworthy Embodies AI!
07/2022: One paper about occupancy prediction is accepted to IROS 2022!
06/2022: Invited talk in the MediaBrain Laboratory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University!
05/2022: Selected as one of the 30 Robotics Pioneers at the RSS 2022 Pioneers Workshop!
03/2022: One paper regarding diverse human motion forecasting is accepted as an Oral presentation at CVPR 2022!
01/2022: Two papers regarding scene understanding and behavior modeling are accepted to ICRA 2022!
11/2021: Serving as a member of the Program Committee for the 4th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference!
08/2021: One paper regarding continual learning for trajectory prediction is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
08/2021: Organizing NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving
07/2021: Two papers are accepted to ICCV 2021!
06/2021: One paper regarding graph-based multi-agent prediction and tracking is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems!
06/2021: Keynote talk on “Multi-Agent Relational Reasoning for Autonomous Driving” at IV 2021 workshop!
06/2021: One paper regarding self-supervised learning for trajectory forecasting is accepted to ITSC 2021!
06/2021: One paper regarding a survey of autonomous driving strategies at intersections is accepted to ITSC 2021!
06/2021: One paper regarding motion planning of mobile robots is accepted to IROS 2021!
05/2021: Organizing IROS 2021 Workshop on Multi-Agent Interaction and Relational Reasoning
04/2021: Organizing ICCV 2021 Workshop on Multi-Agent Interaction and Relational Reasoning
03/2021: Invited talk titled “Relational Reasoning for Multi-Agent Systems” at Carnegie Mellon University!
02/2021: One paper regarding shared cross-modal trajectory forecasting is accepted to CVPR 2021 (Oral)!
02/2021: One paper regarding multi-agent decision making is accepted to ICRA 2021!
02/2021: One paper regarding multi-agent trajectory forecasting is accepted to ICRA 2021!