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:
- Human robot interaction, Human modeling, Cognition & perception
- Autonomous vehicles, Multi-agent interaction, Human-centric systems, Personalized mobility
- Bayesian learning, (Inverse) Reinforcement learning, Active inference, and Optimization & control
News
- New! 03/2024. We got the 2022 Best Paper Award of Transportation Safety and Environment (TSE)!
- New! 03/2024. I was recognized as the 2023 Best Guest Editor Award by Transportation Safety and Environment (TSE)!
- New! 03/2024. One paper about Shareable Driving Styles was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems! Congrats!
- New! 02/2024. One paper about Leveraging Knowledge into Learning for Driving Styles was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles! Congrats!
- New! 01/2024. I was assigned as an Area Chair for IEEE ICIP’2024 (IEEE International Conference on Image Processing)!
- New! 10/2023. One Chinese Patent on `A Continuous Driving Style Recognition Algorithm’ was filed! Congrats!
- New! 10/2023. I just was recognized as 2023 Top 2% of Scientists on Stanford List!
- New! 09/2023. Our journal paper on Trustworthy Decision-Making Process is accepted by IEEE T-ITS! Congrats!
- New! 09/2023. I given an invited talk entitled ‘Human-Centric & Socially Interactive Mobility’ in the SAE 2023 Intelligent and Connected Vehicles Symposium is accepted by IEEE T-ITS! Congrats!