I’m a final year PhD candidate doing research in multi-agent robotic system in CAST lab advised by Dr. Swaminathan Gopalswamy.

My research interest is about the coordination of robots in motion planning and sensor fusion.

Status

As I’m wrapping up my thesis and preparing finishing my thesis, I’m on the job market currently. My research & career interest includes:

• Algorithms: Markov Decision Process (MDP), reinforcement learning (RL), game theory, Dynamic Programming (DP)
• Coordination, target tracking/estimation and sensor fusion in the multi-robot systems
• Applications in self-driving, networked robot system, active sensing, agricultural robotics

Please contact me via email tianqili@tamu.edu or LinkedIn!

News

• [2023-02] We submitted our paper Emergent Cooperative Behavior in Distributed Target Tracking with Unknown Occlusions to IROS 2023, and will host special session Cooperative Robots.

• [2022-07] Happy to share that I was honored as the recipent of Byron H. Anderson ’54 Fellowship by TAMU!

• [2022-05] Very excited to announce that I passed my preliminary exam, and I’m a PhD candidate! Also I’ll be working as an intern in Meta this summer.

• [2021-07] I received IEEE CSS student travel award for CCTA this year! Thanks IEEE CSS! Unfortunately we are not able to see San Diego goden beach since it will be virtual :sob: But safety and health is most important!

• [2021-05] Our paper submitted to IEEE CCTA 2021 is accepted and our session Heterogeneous Autonomous System is approved! Will chair the session with @Dr. Lucas Krakow and @Dr. Swaminathan Gopalswamy.

• [2021-02] Our paper about single vehicle eco-driving in intersection is accpeted as an IEEE RAL journal! Also I’ll present it in ICRA 2021.