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Di Ni, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Director of the DI Lab

I am an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Lehigh University and the director of the Distributed Intelligence (DI) Laboratory. Before joining Lehigh, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University.

My research focuses on developing small-scale robotic collectives that are scalable, robust, and adaptive, enabling new modes of robotic operation in dynamic, unstructured environments. I study how these systems can be designed to perceive, decide, and act collectively, expanding how we observe and interact with complex surroundings. My work targets field deployment, including autonomous inspection, minimally invasive monitoring, and parallelized sensing and detection.

Email din226@lehigh.edu