Jingyao Ren

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2024, where I was advised by Nora Ayanian and Sven Koenig. Before that, I received my M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2017, and my B.Eng. from Sun Yat-Sen University 2015. My research interests lie in artificial intelligence, robotics, planning, and multi-agent systems, with a focus on Multi-Agent Path Finding. I study what makes MAPF instances hard and develop methods to predict, analyze, and generate challenging instances using machine learning and graph-theoretic tools.