👋 Here is Bonan Wang. I am currently a Research Assistant at the iDLab, School of Vehicle and Transportation Engineering, Tsinghua University, and a joint intern at DiDi Chuxing, advised by Prof. Shengbo Eben Li. Previously, I obtained my Master’s degree in Computer Science from the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC), University of Macau, where I was a research assistant in the Human Lab under the supervision of Prof. Zhenning Li. Before that, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the School of Mathematics and Data Science, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology.

Education

• Univeristy of Macau

  08/2023-10/2025
  M.S in Computer Science

• Shaanxi University of Science & Technology

  09/2019-06/2023
  B.S in Data Science and Big Data Technology (Mathematics)

Research Experiences

• Tsinghua University & DiDi

  11/2025-Present
  Research Assistant, Supervisor: Prof. Shengbo Eben Li

• State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City

  08/2023-11/2025
  Research Assistant, Supervisor: Prof. Zhenning Li

Selected Publications

For a complete list of my publications, please refer to my Google Scholar profile.

Beyond Patterns: Harnessing Causal Logic for Autonomous Driving Trajectory Prediction. Bonan Wang, Haicheng Liao,Chengyue Wang, Bin Rao, Yanchen Guan, Guyang Yu, Jiaxun Zhang, Songning Lai, Chengzhong Xu and Zhenning Li International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025

Addressing Corner Cases in Autonomous Driving: A World Model-based Approach with Mixture of Experts and LLMs. Haicheng Liao*, Bonan Wang*, Junxian Yang, Chengyue Wang, Zhengbing He, Guohui Zhang, Chengzhong Xu and Zhenning Li Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (TR Part C), 2025

NEST: A Neuromodulated Small-world Hypergraph Trajectory Prediction Model for Autonomous Driving. Chengyue Wang*, Haicheng Liao*, Bonan Wang, Yanchen Guan, Bin Rao, Ziyuan Pu, Zhiyong Cui, Chengzhong Xu and Zhenning Li The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI oral), 2025

Think Before You Drive: World Model-Inspired Multimodal Grounding for Autonomous Vehicles Haicheng Liao*, Huanming Shen*, Bonan Wang, Yongkang Li, Yihong Tang, Chengyue Wang, Dingyi Zhuang, Kehua Chen, Hai Yang, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

Cot-drive: Efficient motion forecasting for autonomous driving with llms and chain-of-thought prompting. Haicheng Liao*, Hanlin Kong*, Bonan Wang, Chengyue Wang, Wang Ye, Zhengbing He, Chengzhong Xu and Zhenning Li IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (T-AI), 2025

A Domain-Enhanced Dual-Branch Model for Efficient and Interpretable Accident Anticipation. Yanchen Guan, Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang, Bonan Wang, Jiaxun Zhang, Jia Hu and Zhenning Li Communications in Transportation Research, 2025

AMD: Adaptive Momentum and Decoupled Contrastive Learning Framework for Robust Long-Tail Trajectory Prediction. Bin Rao, Haicheng Liao, Yanchen Guan, Chengyue Wang, Bonan Wang, Jiaxun Zhang and Zhenning Li The 20th International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV) 2025

Honors and Awards

• 2025, The 25th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2025), Best Paper Award
• 2024, China Graduate Contest on Smart-City Technology and Creative Design, National Second Prize
• 2022, The International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Outstanding Winner (23/15,105=0.15%)
• 2021, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, National Second Prize (1,197/45,075=2.6%)

Professional Services

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
• Knowledge-based Systems (KBS)
• Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA)
• Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (JTTE)
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
• Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (TR PartC)
• Applied Soft Computing