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Basics

Name Huao Li
Label Postdoctoral Fellow
Email huaol@mit.edu
Phone 412 613 9978
Url https://www.huao-li.com
Summary Human-AI Teamwork; Multi-agent Systems; Human-centered AI.

Work

  • 2025.09 - Present
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Advised by Prof. Chuchu Fan.
    • Develop reinforcement learning algorithms for agents to learn from social interaction in multi-agent settings.
    • Enable natural and adaptive human-robot interaction using VLMs and control algorithms in industrial environments.
  • 2024.01 - 2024.08
    Research Scientist Intern
    Honda Research Institute USA
    Research Scientist Internship, Ann Arbor, MI.
    • Develop techniques for MARL agents to collaborate and communicate with humans using representation learning and LLMs.
    • Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to design and implement solutions.
  • 2017.08 - 2025.08
    Research Assistant
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Advised by Prof. Katia Sycara and Prof. Michael Lewis.
    • Apply human-centered methods to facilitate human–agent interaction.
    • Researched mutual adaptation and proposed a computational framework for RL agents to adopt complementary policies in real time.
    • Evaluated LLM-based agents' embodied interaction and Theory of Mind capabilities in multi-agent collaboration.
    • Designed visual and natural language explanations to improve transparency of RL agents' decision making.
  • 2015.12 - 2016.08
    User Experience Researcher Intern
    International User Experience Design, Alibaba Group
    Hangzhou, China.
    • Collaborated with engineers, designers, and PMs to locate UX issues of AliExpress.com.
    • Designed user study protocols and ran tests/interviews with over 90 users from 14 countries.
    • Analyzed mixed-method data and delivered design suggestions.

Education

  • 2019.08 - 2025.08

    Pittsburgh, PA

    Ph.D.
    University of Pittsburgh
    Intelligent Systems
    • Thesis: A Computational Framework for Efficient Human-agent Teamwork
    • Committee: Michael Lewis; Na Du; Daqing He; Katia Sycara (CMU)
  • 2017.08 - 2019.05

    Pittsburgh, PA

    M.S.
    University of Pittsburgh
    Information Science
    • Thesis: A Computational Model of Human Trust in Supervisory Control of Robotic Swarms
  • 2013.09 - 2017.06

    Hangzhou, China

    B.S.
    Zhejiang University
    Applied Psychology
    • Thesis: The Influence of Pictorial Realism on the Comprehension of Safety Briefing Cards

Awards

Publications

Skills

Human-AI Teamwork
Adaptation
Communication
Trust
Theory of Mind
Multi-agent Systems
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Embodied LLM Agents
Human-centered AI
Explainable AI
Trustworthy AI
Normative Reasoning

Interests

Research Interests
Human-AI Teamwork
Multi-agent Systems
Human-centered AI

References

Prof. Chuchu Fan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
chuchu@mit.edu
Prof. Michael Lewis, University of Pittsburgh
ml@sis.pitt.edu
Prof. Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University
sycara@andrew.cmu.edu
Dr. Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub, Honda Research Institute
hossein_nourkhizmahjoub@honda-ri.com

Volunteer

  • 2026.01 - Present
    Co-chair
    MIT LIDS Student Conference
    Organizer
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    Reviewer
    Academic Community
    Journals: Behaviour & Information Technology, Scientific Reports, IJCHI, T-HMS, PLOS One. Conferences: ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, EMNLP, ICRA, IROS, SMC, HFES.