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Yongyong Wei is a researcher at the forefront of intelligent robotics and autonomous environmental sensing. His work focuses on developing reinforcement learning frameworks to solve the critical challenge of informative path planning for mobile robots. Wei’s core contributions address a fundamental bottleneck in spatial data collection: how to maximize the utility of gathered data—such as air quality, temperature, and location signatures—while operating under severe constraints of limited battery life and travel budgets. His most cited work, "Informative Path Planning for Mobile Sensing with Reinforcement Learning" (2020, 39 citations), pioneered the use of RL to enable a single robot to autonomously plan efficient, data-rich trajectories. Building on this, his 2021 paper "Multi-Robot Path Planning for Mobile Sensing through Deep Reinforcement Learning" (25 citations) extended the paradigm to coordinated multi-robot teams, significantly accelerating data collection over large geographical areas. By replacing tedious manual data gathering with intelligent, adaptive robotic swarms, Wei’s research has direct implications for smart cities, precision agriculture, and disaster response. His work stands as a key enabler for the next generation of autonomous, energy-aware environmental monitoring systems.