Weihang Guo

I am a first year Ph.D. student at Rice University advised by Prof. Lydia Kavraki. I am also honored to collaborate with Prof. Zak Kingston and Prof. Kaiyu Hang.

My research interests include robot safety, high-performance robotic systems, and multi-robot planning.

I am a maintainer of The Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL).

Honors and Awards

Jason Chahin Innovation Scholar, Rice University (Feb 2025)
Donald J. Hillman Memorial Award in AI, Lehigh University (Apr 2023)
Recognition for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Lehigh University (Aug 2022)
Blue Robotics Special Awards, Robosub 2022 (Aug 2022)
2^nd place on 10^th F1TENTH Autonomous Grand Prix, ICRA 2022 (Jul 2022)
Mountaintop Research Fellowship, Lehigh University (May 2022)

Publications

Preprints

Invited Talks

Texas Regional Robotics Symposium (TEROS), Spotlight Talk (April 2025)

Reviewing

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
Workshop on Motion Planning and Control via Parallelization (Workshop @ RSS), 2025
Workshop on Robot Planning in the Era of Foundation Models (FM4RoboPlan @ RSS), 2025