Mr. Dongen Li serves as a visiting student associate at T2 (Intuitive Interfaces Between Humans and Machines) of the interdisciplinary research program Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). 

He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore, with a research focus on autonomous mobile robots and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). He has published several papers in the leading journals & conferences in the field of autonomous mobile robots, including IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and International Symposium of Robotics Research.