Kailai Li

Assistant Professor
CS Department
Bernoulli Institute
University of Groningen

Email: kailai.li[at]rug.nl
Address: Room 5161.0594, Nijenborgh 9, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands


Fostering High-Tech Intellectual Resources Beyond State of the Art: A Pilot of Research-Oriented Education in Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
Funded within the Comenius programme Teaching Fellows 2025 by NRO (Netherlands Initiative for Education Research)
Acquired amount: 50K EUR (2025-2026)
Role: Principal investigator (PI)

Collaborative Multi-Agent Multi-Modal Exploration (CoMUX)
UG-Macquarie Cotutelle Project 2025
Acquired amount: 1 PhD position (2025-2028)
Role: Principal investigator (PI)
In collaboration with Prof. Ming Cao (UG, NL), Dr. Yan Li (MQ, AUS) and Prof. Michael Sheng (MQ, AUS)

Cybersecurity with Focus on Realiable Sensing and Autonomy
Subject area including 1 Asst. Prof, 2 PhD students and 2 postdocs funded by WASP, Sweden
Acquired amount: about 20M SEK in total (2024-2028)
Role: Principal investigator (PI)
Granted but declined by myself due to relocation to the Netherlands

Computational Agile Sensing and Inference for Intelligent Systems
Funded within the ZENITH Program by Linköping University, Sweden
Acquired amount: 600,000 SEK/year for 5 years (2024-2028)
Role: Principal investigator (PI)
Granted but discontinued since 2025 due to relocation to the Netherlands

Gaussian Process Modeling on Directional Manifolds for Data-Driven Estimation of Rigid Body Motion
Funded within the Individual Research Grant Program by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
Acquired amount: 300,000 EUR (2021-2024)
Roles: Author of the proposal. PI: Uwe D. Hanebeck

ULearn4Mobility – Ubiquitous Spatio-Temporal Learning for Future Mobility
Funded within the Helmholtz AI Project Program by the Helmholtz Association, Germany
Acquired amount: 400,000 EUR (2021-2024)
Joint project of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(KIT) & German Aerospace Center(DLR)
Roles: Author of the proposal and project execution. PI: Uwe D. Hanebeck

POMAS – Pose Estimation and Mapping Using Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Funded within the Software Campus Program by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Acquired amount: 100,000 EUR (2021-2024)
In cooperation with Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG as industrial partner
Roles: Principal investigator (PI)
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