Ruixiang Du is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He currently works in the Autonomy, Control, and Estimation Laboratory, with a research focus on the motion planning and control of autonomous mobile robots in cluttered and dynamic environments.

Ruixiang has general interests in robotics and in real-time and embedded systems. He has worked on various robotic projects with robot platforms, ranging from medical robots and unmanned aerial/ground vehicles to humanoid robots. He was a member of Team WPI-CMU for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.