Hi, I'm Andrew!

I'm a first-year MS in Robotics (MSR) student at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. I obtained my BASc in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, majoring in Robotics.

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Current Imitating Human Videos with VLM Captions, advised by Florian Shkurti and Shuang Li
Previous On-Device AI, Machine Learning Systems at Qualcomm
Task and Motion Planning, advised by Florian Shkurti at RVL
Autonomous Driving Dataset, advised by Tim Barfoot at ASRL
Publications
STAMP: Differentiable Task and Motion Planning via Stein Variational Gradient Descent

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

Yewon Lee, Andrew Zou Li, Philip Huang, Eric Heiden, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Fabian Damken, Kevin Smith, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Fabio Ramos, Florian Shkurti

[paper]   [website]  
Stepping Forward on the Last Mile

NeurIPS, 2024

Chen Feng, Shaojie Zhuo, Xiaopeng Zhang, Ramchalam Kinattinkara Ramakrishnan, Zhaocong Yuan, Andrew Zou Li

[paper]  

With Qualcomm AI Research

Chemistry Lab Automation via Constrained Task and Motion Planning

arXiv, 2022

Naruki Yoshikawa*, Andrew Zou Li*, Kourosh Darvish*, Yuchi Zhao*, Haoping Xu*, Artur Kuramshin, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Animesh Garg, Florian Shkurti

[paper]   [website]

Large Language Models for Chemistry Robotics

Autonomous Robots, 2023

Naruki Yoshikawa*, Marta Skreta*, Kourosh Darvish*, Sebastian Arellano-Rubach, Zhi Ji, Lasse Bjørn Kristensen, Andrew Zou Li, Yuchi Zhao, Haoping Xu, Artur Kuramshin, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Florian Shkurti, Animesh Garg

[paper]  
Boreas: A Multi-Season Autonomous Driving Dataset

International Journal of Robotics Research, 2023

Keenan Burnett, David J. Yoon, Yuchen Wu, Andrew Zou Li, Haowei Zhang, Shichen Lu, Jingxing Qian, Wei-Kang Tseng, Andrew Lambert, Keith Y.K. Leung, Angela P. Schoellig, Timothy D. Barfoot

[paper]   [website]   [code]
Projects
Autonomous Drone for First-Aid Delivery and Exploration

University of Toronto Capstone Project, 2025

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Arts

Outside of robotics, I enjoy music, photography, and design. Some of my favorite photos are in this [portfolio].

2018 Associate Diploma (ARCT) in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music
2020 Published in Canadian Geographic's Canadian Parks Calendar Series
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