Max Z. Li

Max (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also has courtesy appointments in Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Max’s research and teaching interests include air transportation systems, airport and airline operations, Advanced Air Mobility, networked systems, as well as optimization and control: At the University of Michigan, he leads the Laboratory for Air Transportation, Infrastructure, and Connected Environments (LATTICE). Max is the recipient of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section Best PhD Dissertation Prize, the FAA RAISE Award (2018), a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2018), as well as several best paper awards from ICRAT and ATM R&D Seminar, two joint FAA-EUROCONTROL conferences.

But most of all, Max is incredibly proud of, and grateful to be working with all of the fantastic student researchers in LATTICE, within the University of Michigan, and beyond!

Max received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021. He earned his MSE in Systems Engineering and BSE in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, both from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. 

Please feel free to reach out to Max via email (maxzli@umich.edu). If you are interested in joining LATTICE, please visit this page (Joining LATTICE).

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