Director

Prof. Gioele Zardini


Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Assistant Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (PI)

Institute for Data, Systems and Society (Affiliate Faculty)

MIT Maritime Consortium (Steering Committee, leading Optimization Vertical)

MIT Mobility Initiative (Affiliate Faculty)

Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (Affiliate Faculty)

Doctor of Science ETH Zurich, December 2023

Email: gzardini at mit dot edu

Administrative Assistant: Katie O’Reilly

Gioele is the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a PI in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), and an affiliate faculty with the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS).

He received his doctoral degree in 2024 from ETH Zurich, and holds both a BSc. and a MSc. in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Systems and control from ETH Zurich.

Before joining MIT as a faculty, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University (January to June 2024), and held various visiting positions at nuTonomy Singapore (then Aptiv, now Motional), Stanford, and MIT.

Driven by societal challenges, the goal of his research is to develop efficient computational tools and algorithmic approaches to formulate and solve complex, interconnected system design and autonomous decision making problems.

His interests include the co-design complex systems, all the way from future mobility systems to autonomous systems, compositionality in engineering, planning and control, and game theory.

He is the recipient of the ETH Silver Medal for his Doctoral Thesis, the 2025 DARPA Young Faculty Award, an award (keynote talk) at the 2021 Applied Category Theory Conference, the Best Paper Award (1st Place) at the 2021 24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), and Amazon, DoE, AFOSR, and MISTI-UK awards.

He created the Autonomy Talks. Check out the webpage, and have a look at the (over 200) recorded talks.

Research Team

Vincent Abbott
Vincent Abbott

Graduate Student (CEE)


Meshal Alharbi
Meshal Alharbi

Graduate Student (EECS)


Yubo Cai
Yubo Cai

Graduate Student (CEE)


Kameron Dawson
Kameron Dawson

MEng Student (EECS)


Riccardo Fiorista
Riccardo Fiorista

Graduate Student (TR)


Andrew Grabowski
Andrew Grabowski

MEng Student (SDM + EECS)


Yujun Huang
Yujun Huang

Graduate Student (CEE)


Jiarui Li
Jiarui Li

Graduate Student (CEE)


Xinling Li
Xinling Li

Graduate Student (TR)


Diego Temkin
Diego Temkin

SuperUROP


Visiting Students

Maximilian Stralz
Maximilian Stralz

Visiting MSc student from ETH Zurich

Research Affiliates

Avalpreet Singh Brar
Avalpreet Singh Brar

Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Luigi Di Lillo
Luigi Di Lillo

intersection of creativity and technology

Mingjia He
Mingjia He

ETH Zurich

Dejan Milojevic
Dejan Milojevic

EMPA and ETH Zurich

Alumni

Wonuola Abiodun
Wonuola Abiodun

UROP

Currently: MIT

Marius Furter
Marius Furter

Visiting Ph.D. student from University of Zurich

Currently: Ph.D. at University of Zurich

Johannes Gaber
Johannes Gaber

Visiting MSc student from ETH Zurich

Currently: MSc at ETH Zurich

Youngseo Kim
Youngseo Kim

Visiting Ph.D. student from Cornell University

Currently: Assistant Professor at UCLA

Cecilia McCarthy
Cecilia McCarthy

Mini-UROP

Currently: MIT

Natasha Parker
Natasha Parker

UROP

Currently: MIT

Maximilian Stölzle
Maximilian Stölzle

Visiting Ph.D. student from TU Delft

Currently: Postdoc at MIT

Cassandra Tafuri Del Vecchio
Cassandra Tafuri Del Vecchio

UROP

Currently: MIT

Emily Tran
Emily Tran

Mini-UROP

Currently: MIT

Kiwan Wong
Kiwan Wong

Rotating student at MIT ME

Currently: MIT

Jiaying Yang
Jiaying Yang

Visiting student from Tongji University and UC Berkeley

Currently: UC Berkeley

Rachel Yang
Rachel Yang

UROP

Currently: MIT



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