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Chengyue Wang
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Macau
State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City
I study embodied agents capable of understanding, anticipating, and interacting with the physical world.
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About
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau, advised by Prof. Zhenning Li. Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree from Chang'an University and my Master's degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
My current research interests include Autonomous Driving, Embodied AI, and Physical AI. As a (co-)first author, I have published in leading journals and AI conferences, including Engineering, IEEE TPAMI, and other venues.
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News
I successfully passed the Thesis Proposal Assessment and officially became a PhD candidate!
I will be attending APTE 2026. See you in Jeju, Korea!
I will be attending AAAI 2026. See you in Singapore!
I will be attending CICTP 2025. See you in Guangzhou, China!
I successfully passed the Qualification Exam.
I began this wonderful academic journey at the University of Macau.
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Publications
For the complete record, please visit Google Scholar.
SWIFT: A Small-World Interaction Framework for Flow-Aware Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026

End-to-End Traffic Accident Anticipation and Localization for Autonomous Vehicles.
Engineering, 2026 CAE Flag Journal
STAR: Structure-Aware Representation Learning for Efficient and Robust UAV-based Geo-Localization.
Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR), 2026

Adaptive Large Language Model Reasoning for Autonomous Driving Decision-Making.
Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), 2026
WAKE: Towards Robust and Physically Feasible Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles with WAvelet and KinEmatics Synergy.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025
NEST: A Neuromodulated Small-world Hypergraph Trajectory Prediction Model for Autonomous Driving.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 Oral (600/12957 = 4.6%)
Minds on the Move: Decoding Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving with Cognitive Insights.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 2025
Physics-Informed Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving under Missing Observation.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024
Efficient and robust estimation of single-vehicle crash severity: A mixed logit model with heterogeneity in means and variances.
Accident Analysis & Prevention (AAP), 2024
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Selected Awards
Doctoral Student Program of the Young S&T Talents Cultivation Project
China Association for Science and Technology · Inaugural Hong Kong and Macau cohort; one of 46 awardees
港澳地区首届中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生专项计划
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Taihu Scholarship
One of 6 awardees at the University of Macau
Best Paper Award
The 25th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP)
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Academic Service
Nature Communications, TR Part C, IEEE-(TNNLS, TCSVT, TITS), and ...
ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, ACM MM, ICRA, IJCAI, and ...







