Shuai Zhou (David) 🎧
Shuai Zhou (David)

Junior undergraduate student

About Me

I am a junior undergraduate student at South China University of Technology, majoring in Robotics Engineering. My research focuses on Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), and I am currently working with Dr. Shizhe Zhao and Prof. Zhongqiang Ren at the RAP Lab of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Our team is collaborating with Prof. Sven Koenig at the IDM Lab of University of California, Irvine. Additionally, I am remotely working with Prof. Jiaoyang Li at the ARCS Lab of the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
I am seeking a Ph.D. position starting in Fall 2026.

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Interests
  • Robotics
  • Multi agent system
  • Motion Planning
Education
  • Undergraduate

    South China University of Technology, CHN

  • Semester Visiting Student

    University of California, Berkeley, USA

🤖 My Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of multi-agent systems and robotics. Currently, I focus on Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) with asynchronous actions—an NP-hard problem that presents significant challenges due to the curse of dimensionality. I am open to collaborations in MAPF, as well as in extending MAPF techniques to other areas of robotics, such as multi-robot arm collaboration. While I appreciate the guarantees provided by search-based methods, I am also keen to explore the potential of learning-based approaches.

My previsous and ongoing projects are about search based method. At the moment, I’m still rapidly getting up to speed with multi-agent motion planning and multi-robot arm motion planning, as well as delving into reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and diffusion models. I’m thinking about whether search-based MAPF approaches, could spark some fresh ideas in these related areas. I am open to discuss。

I am seeking a Ph.D. position starting in Fall 2026 and plan to apply to programs in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering.

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