Bowen Li's Website
Ph. D. student, Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, U.S.
Education
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Ph. D. in Robotics
Sept. 2022 -- presentCarnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
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Master of Science in Robotics
Sept. 2022 -- Dec. 2024Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
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B.Eng. of Mechanical Engnieering
Sept. 2018 -- Jul. 2022Tongji University, Shanghai
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High School Student
Sept. 2015 -- Jun. 2018No.1 Middle School Attached to Central China Normal University
News
- 01/2026: Flax has been accepted by RA-L, stay tuned!
- 01/2026: SLAP has been accepted by ICLR'26, stay tuned!
- 01/2026: One paper submitted to RSS'26, fingers crossed.
- 01/2026: One paper submitted to ICML'26, fingers crossed.
- 12/2025: One paper submitted to TR-O-FoundationModel, fingers crossed.
- 11/2025: I gave a talk at PRPL@Princeton, great discussion!!
- 10/2025: I gave a talk at SBPL@CMU, great discussion!!
- 08/2025: I gave a talk at NSSS'25. Super excited to share the same research interest with Prof. Richard Sutton!
- 06/2025: I am attending RSS'25 to present one workshop and one conference paper! Happy to meet you there!
- 04/2025: IVNTR has been accepted by RSS'25, stay tuned!
Selected Publications
LogiCity: Advancing NeSy AI with Abstract Urban Simulation
Bowen Li,
Zhaoyu Li,
Qiwei Du,
Jinqi Luo,
Wenshan Wang,
Yaqi Xie,
Simon Stepputtis,
Chen Wang,
Katia Sycara,
Pradeep Ravikumar,
Alexander Gray,
Xujie Si,
Sebastian Scherer*
NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track
[Project]
[Paper]
[Code, Data]
"A flexible First-Order Logical abstraction-based multi-agent urban simulator, where LLMs fail."
Selected Pre-Prints
Awards
- Gibbons-Newell Graduate Fellowship 2023@RI, Carnegie Mellon University
- National Scholarship (top 1%, twice) for Undergraduates
- Shanghai Scholarship (top 2%) for Undergraduates
- Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS2021), Carnegie Mellon University
- Excellent Student (top 1%), Tongji University
- Academic Star Model of Tongji University (Ranking 1st)
Service
Academic Reviewer
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Area Chair
- ICRA 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models and Neural-Symbolic AI for Robotics (FMNS)
Current and Past Affiliations
Mentors and Collaborators
Prof. Sebastian Scherer@CMU
Prof. Tom Silver@Princeton
Dr. Alexander Gray@Centaur AI
Prof. Chen Wang@Buffalo
Prof. Changhong Fu@Tongji
Prof. Hang Zhao@Tsinghua
Contact
- bowenli2@cs.cmu.edu
- +1-412-608-2217
- 1723 Murray Ave, Robotics Institute SQH, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA