Sep, 2026 Hang gave a talk as part of the MSE Colloquium Series at SFU’s School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering.
Apr, 2026 Ph.D. student Jingtao won an Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Award and Ph.D. student Zining Mao won an Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, from SFU CS! Congratulations!
Mar, 2026 Our paper on Constraint-Release Execution for Multi-Robot Warehouse Rearrangement was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ! Congratulations to Jiaqi , Yudong , and Yifan !
Nov, 2025 Our paper on Solving the TSP on GCSs was accepted to AAAI 2026 ! Congratulations to Jingtao !
Jun, 2025 paper on Space-Time Graphs of Convex Sets for Multi-Robot Motion Planning received the best paper award at the RSS 2025 Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Multi-Robot Systems ! Congratulations to Jingtao , Zining , and Lufan !
Jun, 2025 Co-organized the 2025 Northwest Robotics Symposium , its first time in Canada!
Jun, 2025 Our paper on Space-Time Graphs of Convex Sets for Multi-Robot Motion Planning was accepted to IROS 2025 ! Congratulations to Jingtao , Zining , and Lufan !
May, 2025 Our paper on Reevaluation of Large Neighborhood Search for MAPF was accepted to SoCS 2025 ! Congratulations to Jiaqi and Yudong !
May, 2025 Our research on MCPP was featured on SFU Scholarly Impact !
Apr, 2025 Our article on MCPP on Grids with Path Deconfliction was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics ! Congratulations to Jingtao and Zining !
Jul, 2024 Our paper on Tracking with Strided Memory Fusion for Consistent Vector HD Mapping was accepted to ECCV 2024 ! Congratulations to Jiaqi and other colleagues!
Jun, 2024 Our paper on Mean-Field Control with Envelope Q-Learning for Moving Decentralized Agents in Formation was accepted to IROS 2024 ! Congratulations to Qiushi !
Jun, 2024 Delivered a Master Class at SoCS 2024 !
Feb, 2024 Our paper on Multi-Robot Connected Fermat Spiral Coverage was accepted to ICAPS 2024 ! Congratulations to Jingtao !
Dec, 2023 Our paper on Local Search for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning was accepted to AAAI 2024 ! Congratulations to Jingtao !
Aug, 2023 Our paper on Mixed Integer Programming for Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ! Congratulations to Jingtao !
Jun, 2023 Our paper on Soft Actor-Critic with Heuristic-Based Attention for MAPF was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ! Congratulations to Qiushi !
Apr, 2023 Our paper on Large-Scale Multi-Robot Rearrangement was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ! Congratulations to Baiyu !
Feb, 2023 Paper accepted to ICAPS 2023 !
Jun, 2022 Paper accepted to IROS 2022 ! Congratulations to Qinghong !
Jun, 2022 A Current Robotics Review article on Graph-Based Multi-Robot Path Finding and Planning is available!
Jan, 2022 Paper accepted to ICRA 2022 ! Congratulations to Xinyi !
Aug, 2021 Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) to work on motion-coordination and human-robot interaction problems! Thank you, CFI! Read SFU FAS news and SFU CS news .
Aug, 2021 ICAPS Best Dissertation Award for my dissertation !
Aug, 2021 demo on winning the 2020 Flatland Challenge won a ICAPS 2021 People’s Choice Best System Demonstration Award ! Our demo video is lots of fun!<div id="LiICAPS21Demo" style="display:none;width:auto" align="center"><div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BAubIPTEbtY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div>
Aug, 2021 An Artificial Intelligence Journal paper on symmetry reasoning for Multi-Agent Path Finding is available!
Mar, 2021 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award Runner-Up for my dissertation !
Mar, 2021 Paper accepted to ICRA 2021 !
Feb, 2021 Two papers accepted to ICAPS 2021 !
Feb, 2021 AAAI New Faculty Highlights ! Watch my talk here.
Dec, 2020 Round 1 and Round 2 of the NeurIPS-20 Flatland Challenge (see our ICAPS paper for technical details)!
Jan, 2020 Paper accepted to ICAPS 2020 !
Jan, 2020 Paper accepted to AAMAS 2020 !
Dec, 2019 Joined the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University as an Assistant Professor!
Nov, 2019 Paper (joint work with Alibaba Cainiao ) accepted to AAAI 2020 !
May, 2019 Paper accepted to IJCAI 2019 !
May, 2019 A SoCS-19 introductory paper on Multi-Agent Path Finding available here !
Mar, 2019 Technology Commercialization Award from the USC Stevens Center for Innovation !
Feb, 2019 Paper accepted to ICAPS 2019 !
Jan, 2019 Two papers accepted to AAMAS 2019 !
Nov, 2018 Four papers accepted to AAAI 2019 !
Apr, 2018 Two papers accepted to IJCAI 2018 !
Jan, 2018 Papers accepted to AAMAS and ICAPS 2018!
Jan, 2018 Talk at Sun Yat-Sen University !
Dec, 2017 Talk at Cainiao, Alibaba !
Nov, 2017 An IEEE Intelligent Systems paper is available!
Jan, 2017 Paper accepted to AAMAS 2017 !
Nov, 2016 Paper accepted to AAAI 2017!
Jun, 2016 Outstanding Paper Award in the ICAPS-16 Robotics Track !
Jun, 2016 Talk at Sun Yat-Sen University !