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Haojia Li is a pioneering roboticist whose research focuses on pushing the boundaries of autonomous aerial systems, from micro-swarm coordination to high-speed dynamic flight. Li’s most celebrated work, “Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild” (539 citations), demonstrated the first-ever deployment of a multi-drone swarm navigating through dense, unstructured forests—a breakthrough that overcomes the twin challenges of unknown environments and tight coordination. Building on this, Li developed AutoTrans, a complete planning and control framework for autonomous UAV payload transportation (41 citations), enabling aerial robots to carry suspended loads with unprecedented agility and safety. Li also advanced perception under extreme motion with FAST-Dynamic-Vision (38 citations), fusing event and depth sensing to detect and dodge fast-moving objects, and introduced the microsaccade-inspired event camera (25 citations), which mimics biological vision to capture edges in low-texture scenes. For autonomous 3D reconstruction, Li’s PredRecon framework (28 citations) uses predictive planning to eliminate redundant flight paths, dramatically improving efficiency. With over 700 total citations and a portfolio spanning impact-aware control, neuromorphic vision, and swarm intelligence, Haojia Li is a leading force in making aerial robots truly autonomous in the wild.