Bai Li received his B.S. degree in 2013 from Beihang University, China, and his Ph.D. degree in 2018 from Zhejiang University, China. He is currently an associate professor at Hunan University, China. Prof. Li has been the first author of nearly 90 papers and two books in numerical optimal control and robotics. He was a recipient of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 2014–2016 Best Journal Paper Prize for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. He received the 2022 Best Associate Editor Award for IEEE Tansacrions on Intelligent Vehicles. His research interest is numerical optimal control-based motion planning for autonomous driving.