Faculty (Principal Investigator)

Dr. Jiachen Li is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (by courtesy) at the University of California, Riverside. He is the Director of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Laboratory (TASL) and a faculty member in the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS). Before joining UCR, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Li received an RSS Robotics Pioneer Award in 2022 and was selected as an ASME DSCD Rising Star in 2023. He is an associate editor or a reviewer for over 25 premier journals and conferences. He has organized multiple workshops on robotics, machine learning, computer vision, and intelligent transportation systems at premier international conferences, including ICRA, IROS, NeurIPS, ICCV, IV, and ITSC. More details about his research and activities can be found on his website (https://jiachenli94.github.io/).

Dr. Li’s research interest lies in the broad intersection of robotics, trustworthy AI & ML, reinforcement learning, control, and optimization as well as their applications to intelligent autonomous systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, drones, cyber-physical systems), especially human-robot interactions and multi-agent systems. 

•  UC Riverside Profile: HERE
•  E-mail: jiachen.li@ucr.edu
•  Google Scholar: HERE
•  Twitter: HERE
•  Office: 344 Winston Chung Hall (WCH)

Graduate Students 

Xiaopan Zhang (Ph.D. in EE, Spring 2024 -- Present)

Jianpeng Yao (Ph.D. in EE, Spring 2024 -- Present)

Zhixu Li (Ph.D. in CS, Spring 2024 -- Present)

Anirudh Nittur Venkatesh (M.S. in CS, Winter 2024 -- Present)

Fnu Heman (M.S. in Robotics, Winter 2024 -- Present)

Yu Xia (M.S. in Robotics, Spring 2024 -- Present)

Albert Dang (M.S. in Robotics, Spring 2024 -- Present)

Undergraduate Students

Ethan Ortega (B.S. in EE, Winter 2024 -- Present)

Visiting Scholar/Students

Kanghoon Lee (Ph.D. at KAIST, Winter 2024 -- Present)