Hi, I'm Andrew!

I'm a MS in Robotics (MSR) student at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. Andrea Bajcsy. I obtained my BASc in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, where I was advised by Prof. Florian Shkurti.

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Previous
  • Planner Post-Training, Waymo
  • Adaptive Test-Time Scaling with Reinforcement Learning, Intent Robotics Lab
  • Policy Steering with VLM Captions, BASc Thesis
  • On-Device Machine Learning Systems, Qualcomm
  • Task and Motion Planning, RVL
  • Autonomous Driving Dataset, ASRL
Publications
ELASTIC: Efficiently Learning to Adaptively Scale Test-Time Compute for Generative Control Policies

arXiv, 2026

Andrew Zou Li, Gokul Swamy, Yonatan Bisk, Andrea Bajcsy

[paper]  
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]  
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

[blog]   [code]  
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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