Kailai Li

Assistant Professor
Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Email: kailai.li[at]rug.nl



I lead the Agile Sensing and Intelligence Group (ASIG) working in the field of mobile robotics and embodied AI.

Since 2025-08, I have been a tenured assistant professor with the Department of Computer Science of Bernoulli Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. I joined the University of Groningen in 2024-05. From 2022-10 to 2024-04, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Linköping University in Sweden, collaborating with Fredrik Gustafsson. Previously, I was a postdoc at the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Department of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, where I obtained my PhD degree in computer science with highest distinction in 2022 (Defended in 2021. Adviser: Uwe D. Hanebeck). I received my MSc degree in Automation Engineering in 2017 from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, including a master’s thesis completed at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, and my bachelor degrees in 2014 from Tsinghua University (Wikipedia) in China.

My research interests focus on enabling agile and trustworthy sensing, inference, learning and control towards full-stack autonomy of mobile robotic systems in the domain of embodied AI. Please refer to my group homepage for more details.

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