- 07/2026 Talk at the Chair of Econometrics and Statistics, TU Dresden, hosted by Dr. Martin Treiber: “Beyond White Noise: What Naturalistic Data Reveal About Memory, Heterogeneity, and Latent Regimes in Car-Following.”
- 05/2026 Defended my Ph.D. thesis, From Micro Interactions to Traffic Flow: Stochastic Driver Models for Realistic Traffic Simulation, at McGill University. My thanks to my advisor Prof. Lijun Sun, to my committee, and to everyone who supported me along the way.
- 04/2026 Online talk at MIT Senseable City Lab, hosted by Prof. Carlo Ratti: “Discovering Urban Mobility Patterns from Human Behavior to City-Scale Dynamics with Interpretable AI.”
- 04/2026 Online talk at MIT AgeLab, hosted by Dr. Pnina Gershon: “Modeling Human Driving as a Dynamic Interaction Process: Uncertainty-Aware Learning from Naturalistic Driving Data.”
- 02/2026 Talk at the TOPS Lab, Department of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, hosted by Prof. Jian Sun: “From Micro Interactions to Traffic Flow: Stochastic Driver Models for Realistic Traffic Simulation.”
- 02/2026 New preprint on scaling Bayesian calibration beyond MCMC: “Active Simulation-Based Inference for Scalable Car-Following Model Calibration” [arXiv: 2602.05246].
- 01/2026 Two papers accepted at IEEE IV 2026: “Online Calibration of Context-Driven Car-Following Models” and “AutoTune: A Unified Benchmark for Highway Traffic Microsimulation Calibration.”
- 11/2025 “When Context Is Not Enough: Modeling Unexplained Variability in Car-Following Behavior” accepted at the 26th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT26). See you in Munich. [arXiv] [poster]
- 10/2025 Online talk at MIT Wu Lab, hosted by Prof. Cathy Wu: “From Micro Interactions to Traffic Flow: Stochastic Driver Models for Realistic Traffic Simulation.”
- 10/2025 Three papers accepted for poster presentation at TRBAM 2026. See you in Washington, D.C.
- 06/2025 New preprint on separating driving regimes from traffic context: “Markov Regime-Switching Intelligent Driver Model for Interpretable Car-Following Behavior” [arXiv: 2506.14762].
- 02/2025 Online talk at the JTL Urban Mobility Lab, MIT, hosted by Prof. Xinyu Chen of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning: “Stochastic Modeling and Simulations of Car-Following Behaviors.” [slides] [web]
- 02/2025 “Forecasting sparse movement speed of urban road networks with nonstationary temporal matrix factorization” accepted at Transportation Science. [TranSci] [arXiv] [code] [blog I] [blog II] [slides]
- 12/2024 Awarded the CIRRELT Doctoral Scholarship of Excellence, Final Stages [Link].
- 11/2024 Talk at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, hosted by Prof. Wenshuo Wang: “Bayesian Calibration of Car-Following Models.”
- 10/2024 Talk at the Artificial Intelligence Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, hosted by Prof. Yanyan Xu: “Bayesian Calibration of Car-Following Models.”
- 04/2024 “Learning Car-Following Behaviors Using Bayesian Matrix Normal Mixture Regression” accepted at IEEE IV 2024. [IEEE IV24’] [arXiv]
- 03/2024 “Calibrating Car-Following Models via Bayesian Dynamic Regression” selected for podium presentation at the 25th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT25), and accepted at Transportation Research Part C (TR PartC). See you in Ann Arbor. [arXiv] [slides]
- 01/2024 The same paper received an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Clifford Spiegelman Student Paper Competition, awarded by the Transportation Statistics Interest Group of the American Statistical Association.
- 12/2023 “Bayesian Calibration of the IDM” accepted at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. [IEEE TITS] [arXiv] [code] [presentation] [poster]
- 12/2023 Awarded the Ron Rice Memorial Award by McGill University.
- 11/2023 Co-organizing the 2nd International Workshop on Socially Interactive Autonomous Mobility (SIAM) at IV24’, Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea. Join us on June 2nd, 2024. [CFP]
- 11/2023 “A Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Model for Probabilistic Modeling of Car-Following Behaviors” accepted at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- 10/2023 Passed the CIVE 702 Ph.D. Research Proposal Examination.
- 10/2023 Our Chinese-language book “LaTeX论文写作教程 (Academic Writing with LaTeX)” is out. [ebook] [清华大学出版社京东自营官方旗舰店]
- 07/2023 “Interactive Car-Following: Matters but NOT Always” accepted at IEEE ITSC 2023. [IEEE ITSC23’] [arXiv]
- 07/2023 “Discovering dynamic patterns from spatiotemporal data with time-varying low-rank autoregression” accepted at IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. [paper]
- 06/2023 Co-organized the 1st International Workshop on Socially Interactive Autonomous Mobility (SIAM) at IV23’ in Anchorage, Alaska. Join us on June 4th, 2023.
- 04/2023 Awarded the FRQNT B2X Doctoral Scholarship.
- 02/2023 Invited to present “Bayesian Calibration of the IDM” in the 2023 Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (ACP50) general webinar series. [flyer] [recording]
- 01/2023 First time at TRBAM, and a memorable week in Washington, D.C.
- 01/2023 Awarded the Graduate Mobility Award by McGill University.
- 12/2022 Awarded the CIRRELT Doctoral Scholarship of Excellence, Early Stages.
- 11/2022 Our review, Social Interactions for Autonomous Driving, accepted at Foundations and Trends® in Robotics.
- 09/2022 One paper accepted at The Montreal AI Symposium 2022.
- 09/2022 Our NSERC proposal on driving behavior interaction, with Prof. Changliu Liu, was funded.
- 09/2022 Awarded the Mitacs Globalink Research Award, Abroad.
- 06/2022 Awarded the FRQNT B1X Master’s Scholarship.
- 12/2021 Awarded the CIRRELT Excellence Master Scholarship.
- 10/2021 Passed the CIVE 701 Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination for the master-to-Ph.D. fast-track application.
