Yuchao Li
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Yuchao Li |
About me
I am a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University (ASU). My mentors are Prof. Dimitri P. Bertsekas and Prof. Xuesong Zhou.
I received my Ph.D. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Jonas Mårtensson and Prof. Karl H. Johansson. My M.Sc. degree was obtained from the same institute in 2016 with my thesis supervised by Prof. Lei Feng. I obtained my B.Eng. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2015.
My research interests include optimal control, reinforcement learning, network optimization, and their application to mechatronic and transportation systems.
News
- July 1st, 2025: I moved to the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at ASU, supported by Prof. Xuesong Zhou.
- May 7th, 2025: I presented our upcoming work on feature-based aggregation (via Zoom) at IDS Lab, Cornell University, hosted by Prof. Andreas Malikopoulos. Check out the slides.
- March 27th, 2025: I presented our recent work on semilinear dynamic programming (via Zoom) at Australian National University hosted by Prof. John Stachurski.
- October 16th, 2024: I gave an invited talk on our recent research on chess at the GameSec Conference held in New York.
- June 10th, 2024: I presented part of my recent work at Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH. Check out part of the recording and the slides.
- August 14th, 2023: I started as a postdoctoral research scholar in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at ASU with Prof. Dimitri P. Bertsekas being my mentor.
- June 8th, 2023: I started a five-day research visit to Lund University hosted by Prof. Anders Rnatzer.
- May 17th, 2023: I presented part of my thesis and recent research at Chalmers University hosted by Prof. Nikolce Murgovski and Prof. Jonas Sjöberg.
- May 12th, 2023: I presented part of my thesis and previous work at Uppsala University hosted by Prof. André Teixeira.
- April 24th, 2023: I presented part of my thesis (via Zoom) at New York University hosted by Prof. Quanyan Zhu.
- March 21st, 2023: I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Approximate Methods of Optimal Control via Dynamic Programming Models," after stimulating discussions with my opponent Prof. Moritz Diehl, and my committee members, Prof. Melanie Zeilinger, Prof. Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, and Prof. Pontus Giselsson.
- March 10th, 2022: I started my research visit to ETH Zürich hosted by Prof. John Lygeros. I will stay in Zürich till the end of August.
- December 20th, 2021: I successfully defended my Licentiate thesis, entitled "Approximate Solution Methods to Optimal Control Problems via Dynamic Programming Models," after a helpful discussion with Prof. Pontus Giselsson.
- May 9th, 2019: I received a scholarship from the KTH Scholarship Council, for attending the European Control Conference (ECC).
- Januray 10th, 2019: I received a scholarship from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, for attending the Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles.
- Auguest 4th, 2017: I started my Ph.D. studies in the Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH, under supervision of Prof. Jonas Mårtensson and Prof. Karl H. Johansson.
- Auguest 1st, 2016: I started my reseach associate position in the Department of Machine Design, KTH, hosted by Prof. Lei Feng.