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.

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News

10/12/2025 - Jiarui and Maximilian have presented their work, and Runyu gave a Rising Star spotlight talk at NERC'25!
10/10/2025 - Gioele gave an IDS.900 Doctoral Seminar.
10/2/2025 - Gioele gave a talk at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in NYC!
10/2/2025 - We are the MIT News Homepage Spotlight today, with the article Accounting for uncertainty to help engineers design complex systems
09/25/25 - Our work on contact-aware safety for soft robotics has been accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
09/24/25 - Gioele gave a talk at the MIT–Amazon Science Hub Robotics Research Day 2025!
9/5/2025 - Gioele gave a virtual AVIATE seminar at UIUC. Check it out here!
9/4/2025 - Gioele is a recipient of the DARPA YFA for 2025: Exciting things ahead! Read more here.
9/3/2025 - Gioele gave a surprise talk at the Swiss CLOCK Summit!
8/11/2025 - Congrats to Mingjia for winning a Smart City Techology Innovation Merit Award from the International Society for Urban Informatics for her work on network design!
7/30/2025 - Our Invited Session on Control Architectures Theory (CAT) has been accepted to IEEE CDC 2025! Stay tuned for more info.
7/25/2025 - The second edition of our Workshop on Control Architectures Theory (CAT) has been accepted to IEEE CDC 2025! Stay tuned for more info.
7/15/2025 - Two papers accepted at IEEE CDC 2025. Rio here we come!
7/8/2025 - The workshop on ACT for Compositional Decision-Making was a blast, stay tuned for more!
7/1/2025 - Two papers accepted at IEEE ITSC 2025!
6/25/2025 - Gioele gave a talk at the RSS 2025 Workshop on Multi-Objective Optimization and Planning in Robotics, LA, CA, USA
6/12/2025 - Gioele had a great time in Paris, where he gave an invited seminar at the Séminaire Systèmes Complexes, Télécom Paris and a plenary at the Rice Paris Summit on Large Scale Learning and Optimization!
6/7/2025 - New papers accepted at RSS 2025 workshops, CCTA 2025, and AGI 2025!
5/23/2025 - As usual in southeast Asia, Gioele had a blast! It was great to be on the SAC at SD Guthrie in Kuala Lumpur, as well as delivering a seminar at the Singapore Maritime Institute!
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!!

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