Ruojia Sun

Cornell University, University of Colorado Boulder

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Ruojia Sun’s research sits at the intersection of robotics, control theory, and human-machine creative interaction, with a focus on enabling autonomous systems to interpret and respond to complex, real-time inputs. Her most cited work, “Distributed Control of Robotic Swarms from Reactive High-Level Specifications” (2021, 9 citations), introduces a groundbreaking distributed strategy that automatically synthesizes controls for robotic swarms. This framework allows users to specify high-level formation and location-based tasks—including reactions to environmental events—using linear temporal logic, bridging the gap between abstract human commands and low-level robot coordination. More recently, Sun has ventured into the realm of creative AI with “BrAIn Jam: neural signal-informed adaptive system for drumming collaboration with an AI-driven virtual musician” (2025, 1 citation). This work tackles the challenge of translating the subtle, intuitive cues of human musical communication into embodied, adaptive computer-driven musicianship. By integrating neural signals to inform an AI drummer’s responses in real time, Sun pushes the boundaries of how machines can participate in dynamic, improvisational collaboration. Her contributions are notable for merging rigorous formal methods with human-centered design, offering new pathways for both autonomous swarm coordination and expressive human-AI interaction.