About Us

Driven by societal challenges, the goal of the Zardini Lab at MIT is to develop efficient computational tools and algorithmic approaches to formulate and solve complex, interconnected system design and autonomous decision-making problems. Applications feature society-critical problems in mobility, logistics, autonomy, automotive, aerospace, energy, and complex systems in general. The lab, comprised of researchers equipped with strong mathematical skills and diverse engineering backrounds, solves such problems by employing and enhancing techniques from optimization, control theory, game theory, domain theory, and applied category theory.

Check out our latest publications here!

Upcoming talks by Prof. Zardini:

• 05/23/25: Invited Seminar at the Singapore Maritime Institute, Singapore
• 06/10/25: Invited Seminar at the Séminaire Systèmes Complexes, Télécom Paris (and others), France
• 06/12/25: Plenary at the Rice Paris Summit on Large Scale Learning and Optimization, Paris, France
• 06/25/25: Talk at the RSS 2025 Workshop on Multi-Objective Optimization and Planning in Robotics, LA, CA, USA

News

5/14/2025 - We are extremely proud of our UROPs: Wonu has received the Juan Hermosilla (1957) Prize, and Rita has received the Leo (Class of 1924) and Mary Grossman Award!!
5/7/2025 - Gioele gave a talk at the University of Malta Platform Conference, talking about the newly established MIT Maritime Consortium!
4/28/2025 - Check out this new article on MIT News about our work on compositional architectures!
4/25/2025 - Gioele gave the Dynamic Systems and Control Seminar at UC San Diego!
4/23/2025 - Youngseo will start as an Assistant Professor at UCLA in the Fall. We are extremely proud of her!!!
4/12/2025 - Our paper on Compositional Uncertainty in Symmetric Monoidal Categories has been accepted to the Seventh International Applied Category Theory Conference!
3/28/2025 - Gioele gave a seminar at DTU, Denmark!
3/10/2025 - Our paper on Task-Driven Co-Design of Perception and Decision Making for Mobile Robots Applied to Autonomous Vehicles has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Check it out here!
3/5/2025 - Gioele was in a panel on the future of systems engineering at CAS 2025 at MIT.
2/28/2025 - Check out this new article on MIT News (featured as spotlight today!!!) about our work on co-opetitive network design!
2/24/2025 - Gioele gave a short keynote at the CEE Research Day. More importantly, Rita won the second place at the annual Best Posters Competition. She did a great job with her UROP!
2/14/2025 - Our paper on diagrammatic formalization of architectures has been accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research! Check it out!
2/7/2025 - Gioele gave the EEE Keynote Address at Columbia University, NYC, USA.
1/27/2025 - Mingjia is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at ACC'25 with our paper on Strategic Interactions in Network Design. Winners to be announced in July.
1/24/2025 - Gioele gave the ITS Seminar at University of California, Berkeley, USA.
1/17/2025 - Two papers and a workshop on compositional decision-making accepted at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC) in Denver, Colorado! Check them out here (mobility) and here (robotics)!
1/14/2025 - Check out the CEE news about our ACT4ED class at MIT!
1/9/2025 - Check out the CEE news about our new M-CATS project with U.S. DoE!
1/7/2025 - Congrats to Yujun for being awarded the OGE Ho-Ching and Han-Ching Fund Award!
1/1/2025 - If you are at TRB in DC, check out our work 'Estimate then Predict: Convex Formulation for Travel Demand Forecasting', led by Youngseo!

For the entire list of news, please refer to news!