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

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 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 (RA-L), 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

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (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 (IJJR), 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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