About Me

My name is Guanrui Li（Chinese Characters: 李冠睿), pronounced as “Guan(冠) Ray(睿) Li(李)”. You can call me Rui(Ray) for short.

Currently I am an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and director of Aerial-robot Control and Perception Lab (ACP Lab).

I got my PhD degree at New York University, supervised by Prof. Giuseppe Loianno, Principle Investigator of Agile Robotics and Perception Lab(ARPL). I obatined my master degree of Robotics at the University of Pennsylvania. During my time at UPenn, I participated in research projects supervised by Prof. Vijay Kumar and Prof. Mark Yim at the GRASP Lab. After master graduation, I stayed working as a full time research assistant in the ModLab, supervised by Prof. Mark Yim for half year. Then I moved to Carnegie Mellon University working as a full time research staff for another half year in the AirLab at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Prof. Sebastian Scherer.

Before coming to the US, I got my bachelor degree at the Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in China majoring Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

You can check my publication and some interesting photos in my life on this website.

Latest News

Apr, 2024. Honored to have been awarded the NYU University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Awards!!
Apr, 2024. Honored to have been awarded the Alexander Hessel Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Electrical Engineering!!
Feb, 2024. I was invited to give a talk at Worcester Polytechnical Institute (WPI) Robotics Engineering
May, 2023. I was selected as NSF CPS Rising Star
May, 2022. LMPC is selected as Outstanding Deployed System Paper Award Finalist at IEEE ICRA 2022
Apr, 2022. Honored to have been awarded the Dante Youla Award for Graduate Research Excellence at NYU Tandon
Feb, 2022. LMPC featured on IEEE Spectrum Video Friday
May, 2021. My RA-L paper featured in and IEEE Spectrum Video Friday
Mar, 2021. PCMPC featured in IEEE Spectrum article