Dayi Dong is an undergraduate student in the Intelligent Autonomy Lab. He is currently a senior pursuing a B.S. in Engineering Sciences (Mechanical) and a B.S. in Computer Science. He joined the lab in November of 2022 and has since been working on search-based planning and trajectory optimization, specifically ergodic search. He is also the co-recipient of the 2023 Best Paper Award at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference alongside Henry Berger and Dr. Ian Abraham.