Hi! I am a Tenure-Track Full Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology(BIT), Beijing, China, where I earned my Ph.D. degree in 2018, receiving the Best Dissertation Award. During my academic journey, I have had the privilege of collaborating with J. Karl Hedrick, Changliu Liu, Xuanlong Nguyen. Before joining BIT, I held the position of Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2023) with McGill University, UC Berkeley, DeepDrive and Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, from 2015 to 2018, I engaged as a visiting graduate student at UC Berkeley and University of Michigan.

My primary research focus is on BehAvioral intElligence for autonomous Systems (BAYES), a multidisciplnary field that combines insights from computational cognitive science with machine learning theory. I am dedicated to enhancing AI-based agents’s efficiency, safety, and intelligence when interacting with humans. My research endeavors are guided by the objective of developing theoretical frameworks and practical algorithms to better understand human interactions. I employ Bayesian learning and optimization, underpinned by computational cognitive sciences to contribute to the realization of Socially Interactive Autonomous Mobility (SIAM). SIAM aims to create a truly safe and reliable system that centers on the human experience, particularly in the domain of driving. My research interests encompass the following areas:

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