💡Passionate about Intelligent Transportation Systems,
I bring AI&ML techniques to Human-Like Autonomous Driving, broadly including four key research themes:
(1) Trajectory Prediction & Planning,
(2) Multimodal Grounding,
(3) Accident Anticipation,
(4) End-to-end Autonomous Driving.
I have published 20+ papers as the first/co-first author in prestigious journals such as
Transportation Science, IEEE (T-PAMI,
T-RO,
T-ITS,
T-AI,
T-IV),
COMMTR,
Information Fusion,
and AAP,
and at leading AI conferences like ICCV,
AAAI (Oral),
ACM MM (Oral),
IJCAI,
ECAI,
and ICRA.
⭐We are looking for self-motivated RAs to join HUMAN LAB! If interested, please don't hesitate to email me!
Over the years, we've mentored 10+ outstanding students, many of whom have advanced to top-tier institutions
like Tsinghua University (THU), Peking University (PKU), Purdue University (PU), Zhejiang University (ZJU),
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and Tongji University (TJU).
👉If you are interested in collaborating or sharing thoughts, please feel free to reach out via Email or WeChat.🚗
Selected Publications
(*): I am the co-first author; (†): Corresponding author
[TRC'30] "Towards Human-like Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Cognitive-inspired Lightweight Model."
- The 30th Anniversary of Transportation Research Part C (TRC-30) (Transportation Conf., Oral Presentation)
- Haicheng Liao, Yongkang Li, Yanchen Guan, Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wang, Zilin Bian, Ziyuan Pu, Jia Hu, Zhiyong Cui
[CICTP'23] "An Efficient Bayesian Robit Model for Traffic Safety Modeling."
- COTA (Chinese Overseas Transportation Association) International Conference of Transportation Professionals (Transportation Conf.)
- Haicheng Liao, Huanming Shen, Bonan Wang, Chengyue Wang, Bin Rao, Hao Yu, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
- [Paper]
[CICTP'25] "Improving Visual Grounding for Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models."
- COTA (Chinese Overseas Transportation Association) International Conference of Transportation Professionals (Transportation Conf., Best Paper Award)
- Haicheng Liao, Huanming Shen, Bonan Wang, Chengyue Wang, Bin Rao, Hao Yu, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li
- [Paper]
[TRB'24] "Achieving Human-Like Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles: A Behavior-Aware Approach."
- The 103th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (Top Transportation Conf., Oral Presentation, AR: 174/4385 ≈ 3.6%)
- Haicheng Liao, Hanlin Kong, Huanming Shen, Zhenning Li, Ruru Tang, Ziyuan Pu, Shengbo Li, Chengzhong Xu
- [Paper]
[TRB'24] "Lightweight Human Observation-inspired Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving."
- The 103th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (Top Transportation Conf.)
- Yongkang Li*, Haicheng Liao*, Shangqian Liu, Zhenning Li, Wenyu Li, Kai Zhang, Shengbo Li, Chengzhong Xu
[AAP'24] "Efficient and robust estimation of single-vehicle crash severity: A mixed logit model with heterogeneity in means and variances."
- Accident Analysis & Prevention (Transportation Journal)
- Zhenning Li, Chengyue Wan, Haicheng Liao, Guofa Li, Chengzhong Xu
- [Paper]
[Chain'24] "Steering the Future: Redefining Intelligent Transportation Systems with Foundation Models."
- Chain(Transportation Journal)
- Zhenning Li, Zhiyong Cui, Haicheng Liao, John Ash, Guohui Zhang, Chengzhong Xu, Yinhai Wang
- [Paper]
[MM'25] "Eyes on the Road, Mind Beyond Vision: Context-Aware Multi-modal Enhanced Risk Anticipation."
- The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (AI Conf.)
- Jiaxun Zhang, Haicheng Liao, Yumu Xie, Chengyue Wang, Yanchen Guan, Bin Rao, Zhenning Li
- [Paper]
[MM'25] "Learning New Concepts, Remembering the Old: Continual Learning for Multimodal Concept Bottleneck Models."
- The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (AI Conf.)
- Songning Lai, Mingqian Liao, Zhangyi Hu, Jiayu Yang, Wenshuo Chen, Hongru Xiao, Jianheng Tang, Haicheng Liao, Yutao Yue
- [Paper]
Mentored Students
2025
Huanming Shen: UESTC (B.S.) ---> Tsinghua University (Ph.D.)
Yuxing Jiao: BIT (B.S.) --> Fudan University (Ph.D.)
Xinyi Li: UESTC (B.S.) ---> Peking University (Shenzhen) (M.S.)
Yongjie Qin: WHU (B.S.) ---> Wuhan University (Shenzhen) (M.S.)
2024
Yongkang Li: UESTC (B.S.) --> Purdue University (Ph.D.)
Hanlin Kong: UESTC (B.S.) --> Zhejiang University (Ph.D.)
Haoyu Sun: UESTC (B.S.) --> AI Lab Joint Projecty (Ph.D.)
Xinpeng Qin: UESTC (B.S.) ---> Tsinghua University (M.S.)
Kewei Xu: UESTC (B.S.) --> Nanjing University (M.S.)
Yuxuan He: UESTC (B.S.) --> Shanghai Jiao Tong University (M.S.)
Junxian Yang: UESTC (B.S.) --> University of Science and Technology of China (M.S.)
Xuelin Li: UESTC (B.S.) --> Shanghai Jiao Tong University (M.S.)
2023
Wenxuan Zeng: UESTC (B.S.) --> Peking University (Ph.D.)
Shengzhe Lin: HFUT (B.S.) --> Southeast University (M.S.)
