Yingying Li

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Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
• M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
• B.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China

Academic Positions

• Assistant professor in Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering 
• Assistant professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL)
• Affiliate professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Affiliate professor in Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering 
• Affiliate professor in School of Information Sciences

Research Interests

• Intersection of control theory, learning theory, and optimization theory
• Learning-enabled control
• Online learning, reinforcement learning
• Multi-agent/network decision making
• Applications in robotics and computer vision.

Journal Editorships

• Area Chair for NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, L4DC, AAAI, etc.

Honors

• CVPR 2026 Workshop Best Paper Award (2026)
• Outstanding Reviewer by European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (2026)
• National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Award (2026)
• Lambda AI Research Award (2026)
• CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) Rising Star (2022)
• Editor's Choice of Automatica (2020)

Teaching Honors

• Facilitating Learning Excellence (FLEX) Award for SE 320: Control Systems (2026 Spring)
• Facilitating Learning Excellence (FLEX) Award for For IE 598 Reinforcement Learning and Learning based Control (2025 Fall)