@misc{Stanley_FromDistancesToTrajectories_AuRo26,
        author = {Jason Stanley and Zhirui Dai and Qihao Qian and Tzu-Chin Ho and Tianxing Fan and Siddharth Saha and Christopher Barngrover and Ki Myung Brian Lee and Nikolay Atanasov},
        title = {{From Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs}},
        year = {2026}
    }
    

    @misc{Dai_KernelSDF_UR26,
        author = {Zhirui Dai and Tianxing Fan and Mani Amani and Jaemin Seo and Kyungmin B. Lee and Hyondong Oh and Nikolay Atanasov},
        title = {{Kernel-SDF: An Open-Source Library for Real-Time Signed Distance Function Estimation using Kernel Regression}},
        year = {2026},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29227}
    }
    

    @misc{Lee_SafeBubble_arXiv,
        author = {Ki Myung Brian Lee and Zhirui Dai and Cedric Le Gentil and Lan Wu and Nikolay Atanasov and Teresa Vidal-Calleja},
        title = {{Safe Bubble Cover for Motion Planning on Distance Fields}},
        year = {2024},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13377}
    }
    

    @inproceedings{Stanley_FromDistancesToTrajectories_AIMI26,
        author = {Jason Stanley and Zhirui Dai and Tzu-Chin Ho and Siddharth Saha and Christopher Barngrover and Nikolay Atanasov},
        title = {{From Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs}},
        booktitle = {ICRA Workshop on Aerial Inspection for Marine Infrastructures (AIMI)},
        year = {2026}
    }
    

    @inproceedings{Dai_OREN_IROS26,
        author = {Zhirui Dai and Qihao Qian and Tianxing Fan and Nikolay Atanasov},
        title = {{OREN: Octree Residual Network for Real-Time Euclidean Signed Distance Mapping}},
        booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
        year = {2026},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18999}
    }
    

    @inproceedings{Matthews_ExpandingSafeSets_IROS26,
        author = {Trevor Matthews and Mahesh Kumar Ananthakrishnan Rameshkumar and Azra Begzadi\'{c} and Sander Tonkens and Zhirui Dai and Nikolay Atanasov and Jorge Cortes and Sylvia Herbert},
        title = {{Expanding Safe Sets with Learning-Based Barrier Functions and Reachability}},
        booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
        year = {2026}
    }
    

                            @misc{Dai_SDDF_TPAMI26,
                                author = {Zhirui Dai and Hojoon Shin and Yulun Tian and Ki Myung Brian Lee and Nikolay Atanasov},
                                title = {{Learning Scene-Level Signed Directional Distance Function with Ellipsoidal Priors and Neural Residuals}},
                                year = {2026},
                                url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20066}
                                doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2026.3688658}
                            }
                            

    @inproceedings{Kim_BiggerPicture_ICRA26,
        author = {Sunghwan Kim and Woojeh Chung and Yulun Tian and Zhirui Dai and Arth Shukla and Hao Su and Nikolay Atanasov},
        title = {{Seeing the Bigger Picture: 3D Latent Mapping for Mobile Manipulation Policy Learning}},
        booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
        year = {2026},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03885}
    }
    

    @inproceedings{Dai_SDDF_RSS25,
        author = {Dai, Zhirui and Shin, Hojoon and Tian, Yulun and Lee, Ki Myung Brian and Atanasov, Nikolay},
        title = {{Learning Scene-Level Signed Directional Distance Function for Aerial Autonomy}},
        booktitle = {Workshop on Leveraging Implicit Methods for Aerial Autonomy at RSS},
        year = {2025}
    }
    

    @inproceedings{Kim_BiggerPicture_RSS25,
        author = {Sunghwan Kim and Woojeh Chung and Yulun Tian and Zhirui Dai and Arth Shukla and Hao Su and Nikolay Atanasov},
        title = {{Seeing the Bigger Picture: 3D Latent Mapping for Mobile Manipulation Policy Learning}},
        booktitle = {Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Workshop on Learned Robot Representations at RSS},
        year = {2025}
    }
    

    @inproceedings{Rabiei_LTLCodeGen_IROS25,
        author = {Rabiei, Behrad and Kumar A. R., Mahesh and Dai, Zhirui and Pilla, Surya Lakshmi Subba Rao and Dong, Qiyue and Atanasov, Nikolay},
        title = {{LTLCodeGen: Code Generation of Syntactically Correct Temporal Logic for Robot Task Planning}},
        booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
        year = {2025},
        pages = {19240-19247},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07902},
        doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246351}
    }
    

    @inproceedings{Dai_LLMPlanning_ICRA24,
        author = {Zhirui Dai and Arash Asgharivaskasi and Thai Duong and Shusen Lin and Maria-Elizabeth Tzes and George J. Pappas and Nikolay Atanasov},
        title = {{Optimal Scene Graph Planning with Large Language Model Guidance}},
        booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
        year = {2024},
        pages = {14062-14069},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09182},
        doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610599}
    }
    

    @article{Long_DROSafeNavigation_IJRR25,
        author = {Kehan Long and Yinzhuang Yi and Zhirui Dai and Sylvia Herbert and Jorge Cortés and Nikolay Atanasov},
        title = {{Sensor-Based Distributionally Robust Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments}},
        journal = {The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)},
        year = {2025},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18251},
        doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251352000}
    }
    

    @InProceedings{Dai_2021_ICCV,
        author = {Dai, Zhirui and Jiang, Yuepeng and Li, Yi and Liu, Bo and Chan, Antoni B. and Vasconcelos, Nuno},
        title = {BEV-Net: Assessing Social Distancing Compliance by Joint People Localization and Geometric Reasoning},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
        month = {October},
        year = {2021},
        pages = {5401-5411},
        doi = {10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.00535},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04931}
    }