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.
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.
Editorial Board: Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Area: Visual Perception and Learning)
Review for journals: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation Journal of Field Robotics, Statistics and Computing
Review for conferences: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), European Control Conference (ECC), IFAC World Congress (IFAC), IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)
Program committee: Co-organizing the Special Session on Directional Estimation at conferences FUSION (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022) and MFI (2020, 2021)
Review for journals: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation Journal of Field Robotics, Statistics and Computing
Review for conferences: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), European Control Conference (ECC), IFAC World Congress (IFAC), IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)
Program committee: Co-organizing the Special Session on Directional Estimation at conferences FUSION (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022) and MFI (2020, 2021)
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