Anni Li, Ph.D.

Education:

• Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, MA, 2025
• M. Sc., Tongji University, China, 2020
• B.Sc., Central China Normal University, China, 2017

Research Area:

• Control Theory
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Robotics

Selected Publications:

1. Li, A., Armijos, A.S.C. and Cassandras, C.G., 2025. Robust optimal lane-changing control for Connected Autonomous Vehicles in mixed traffic. Automatica, 174, p. 112169.
2. Armijos, A.S.C., Li, A., Cassandras, C.G., Al-Nadawi, Y.K. Araki, H., Chalaki, B., Moradi-Pari, E., Mahjoub, H.N. and Tadiparthi, V., 2024. Cooperative energy and time-optimal lane change maneuvers with minimal highway traffic disruption. Automatica, 165, p. 111651.
3. Xiao, W., Li, A., Cassandras, C.G. and Belta, C., 2024. Toward model-free safety-critical control with humans in the loop. Annual Reviews in Control, 57, p. 100944.
4. Li, A., Armijos, A.S.C. and Cassandras, C.G., 2023, December. Cooperative lane changing in mixed traffic can be robust to human driver behavior. in 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 5123-5128). IEEE.
5. Li, A., Cassandras, C.G. and Xiao, W., 2024, July. Safe optimal interactions between automated and human-driven vehicles in mixed traffic with event-triggered control barrier functions. In 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp. 1455-1460). IEEE.

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