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:

• 01/24/25: ITS Seminar at University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 02/07/25: Keynote Address, Earth and Environmental Engineering Department, Columbia University, New York City, USA
• 04/25/25: CCSD Seminar at University of California, San Diego, USA

News

1/17/2025 - Two papers 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!
12/19/2024 - Our paper on Strategic Pricing and Routing to Maximize Profit in Congested Roads Considering Interactions with Travelers has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. Check out the teaser!
12/18/2024 - Gioele gave a talk at Politecnico di Milano.
11/22/2024 - We were awarded the Sidara-MIT LCAU Urban Research Seed Fund, for our project on the co-design of future urban infrastructure systems. Check it out here!
11/20/2024 - Gioele gave a GRASP SFI seminar at UPenn.
11/17/2024 - Gioele was awarded the ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis from ETH Zurich! Check out the news!
10/14/2024 - Gioele gave an invited seminar at UConn!
10/11/2024 - Gioele gave the CCDC Seminar at UC Santa Barbara!
9/24/2024 - Our ITSC Tutorial on Data-Driven Control of AMoD Systems was a success, stay tuned for the recordings!
9/13/2024 - Gioele gave a talk at the IDS.900 Doctoral Seminar!
9/8/2024 - We are delighted to kick-off a project with Amazon Robotics on multi-agent motion planning, in the context of an Amazon Research Award we won through the MIT Amazon Science Hub!
9/7/2024 - Check out the faculty spotlight on Gioele.
9/4/2024 - We gave the first ACT4ED lecture. Check out the post!
7/18/2024 - Our Tutorial on Data-driven Methods for Network-level Coordination of Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems Across Scales has been accepted in the program of the 2024 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference!
7/16/2024 - Our Workshop on Control Architectures Theory (CAT) has been accepted to IEEE CDC 2024!
7/9/2024 - Our paper 'Integrated User Matching and Pricing in Round-Trip Car-Sharing' has been accepted in the 2024 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference.

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