🤖 About Me

  • I’m an Associate Professor working at NUDT in China. I’m also an Associate Editor for IEEE RA-L, ICRA, and IROS.

  • My research topics are Robotics, Robot Perception, Localization, SLAM, and Navigation.

  • I have published 70+ peer-reviewed academic papers at the top international robotics journals and conferences,
    such as TRO, RAL, RSS, ICRA, IROS, and CVPR.

  • Here is my extended CV (pdf).

🔥 News

  • I’m recruiting master’s and Ph.D. students in robot perception and navigation.
    If you’re interested in joining my team, please email me your CV and a brief statement at chenxieyuanli@hotmail.com.

  • I obtained my Ph.D. degree with a thesis entitled “Exploration and Mapping with Mobile Robots”,
    supervised by Cyrill Stachniss at the University of Bonn, Germany.

  • I was a member of the Technical Committee of RoboCup Rescue Robot League (RRL).

📝 Publications

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🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024 World’s Top 2% Scientists
    Stanford and Elsevier

  • 2024 Finalist of Best Paper in Robot Learning
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)

  • 2022 Summa cum laude (Doctoral degree with distinction, best possible grade)
    University of Bonn

  • 2021 RSS Pioneer
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)

  • 2020 Finalist of Best System Paper
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)

  • 2021, 2022, 2023 Best‑in‑Class in Rescue Robot League
    Rescue Robot League (RRL), RoboCup

📖 Educations

  • 2018.09 - 2022.08, Dr.‑Ing., University of Bonn, ‑ summa cum laude (with distinction, best possible grade)
    Bonn, Germany, SUPERVISOR: Prof. Dr. Cyrill Stachniss
    THESIS: LiDAR‑Based Semantic Perception for Autonomous Vehicles

  • 2015.09 - 2017.12, M.S. in Robotics, National University of Defense Technology
    Hunan, China, SUPERVISOR: Prof. Dr. Hui Zhang
    THESIS: Binary Visual Feature‑based Monocular SLAM

  • 2011.09 - 2015.07, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Automation, Hunan University
    Hunan, China, SUPERVISOR: Prof. Dr. Jianhao Tan
    THESIS: Control for a Quadrotor UVA

👨‍🔧 Working Experience

ACADEMIC WORKING EXPERIENCE

  • 2022.12 ‑ Present Associate Professor
    National University of Defense Technology

  • 2019.09 ‑ 2022.09 Research Assistant
    University of Bonn

RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

  • 2022.09 ‑ Present Associate Editor
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA‑L)

  • 2023, 2024, 2025 Associate Editor
    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics & Automation (ICRA)

  • 2023, 2024 Associate Editor
    IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS)

  • 2019.07 ‑ 2023.07 Technical Committee
    RoboCup Rescue Robot League