Anjian Li

Hi! I am a 5th year PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, advised by Prof. Ryne Beeson. I also work closely with Prof. Adji Bousso Dieng and Prof. Bartolomeo Stellato. My research focuses on generative AI and world models for safe, reliable reasoning and decision-making in complex environments, with applications to autonomous systems and robotics. I’m also interested in developing machine learning methods to accelerate non-convex optimization.

Over the past summer, I interned with Waymo planning team, where I worked on post-training a generative foundation model that is currently running on thousands of fully autonomous vehicles.

Previously I did an internship at Honda Research Institute USA, working on consistency models. I did my master in computing science at Simon Fraser University, advised by Prof. Mo Chen. Before that, I received my bachelor in mathematcis at Beijing Normal University.