Sarah H.Q. Li

Sarah H.Q. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and a member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral scholar at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Control Lab and earned her Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington (advised by Behçet Açıkmeşe and Pierre-Loïc Garoche) and a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia.

• Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington
• B.A.Sc., Engineering Physics, University of British Columbia
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Autonomous Control Lab, ETH Zurich

Her research focuses on multi-agent models and algorithms for future air/space mobility systems, combining game theory, stochastic control, and optimization. Key applications include urban transportation, advanced air mobility, and space collision avoidance. She has contributed to congestion-aware path coordination, Markovian network equilibrium, and safety-critical operations under uncertainty.

Recent scientific awards include the 2020 Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellow and the 2022 University of Washington Condit Graduate Fellow. She has presented invited seminars at institutions like UT Austin, University of Michigan, and ETH Zurich.

Her lab (IRIM) explores large-scale autonomy, with software tools such as a Python package for ride-hail driver competition models. She actively seeks graduate students interested in advanced air mobility, supply chains, and space traffic.