Ruolin Li
WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Computer Science
Designs control and game-theoretic methods for future mobility systems with autonomous vehicles and human behavior models.
Ruolin Li's lab at USC works on autonomous vehicles & drones, planning, control & multi-robot systems and embodied & active vision. 11 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly ICRA. 3 PhD students and 1 master's student. 9 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 9%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 9
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 1
- 0 papers2024 · T1 0
- 2 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems3 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones2 papers
- Embodied & active vision0 papers
- future0 papers
- environmental engineering0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- TRBA Wardrop-Equilibrium-Based Model for Multi-Lane Merging Behavior at Highway On-Ramp Areas
- IFAC WorkshopAgent-Based Evolutionary Dynamics for Mixed Autonomy Weaving Ramps (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS AIWILD · TRBBounded Mediation: Limiting LLM Execution Authority in Cyber-Physical Systems
- TRBInterpretable Cost Modeling for Strategic Driving Decisions via LLM-Guided Symbolic Reasoning
- BTRMAPLE: Macro–Micro Aligned Pigouvian Lane Control for Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Efficiency Best Paper (opens in a new tab)
- INFORMSStackelberg Routing in Mixed-Autonomy Networks with Heterogeneous User Preferences
- TRBThe Regime-Dependent Cost of Equity in Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Rebalancing
20252 papers
- ICRA (T1)Realistic Extreme Behavior Generation for Improved AV Testing (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)To Stay or to Bypass: Unraveling Mainline Vehicles’ Aggregate Strategic Decision-Making at Highway Weaving Ramps (opens in a new tab)
20232 papers
- · RSS Workshop on Symmetries in Robot LearningRobotic Manipulation Learning with Equivariant Descriptor Fields: Generative Modeling, Bi-Equivariance, Steerability, and Locality (opens in a new tab)
- · Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 171, 29-43Submodularity of Optimal Sensor Placement Problems for Traffic Networks (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went9 listed
Apply to USCFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
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