Bonan Wang

Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University

Email: bonanwang@tamu.edu

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About

👋 Hi! I am Bonan Wang, a first-year Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University, co-advised by Prof. Yang Zhou and Prof. Yunlong Zhang. Previously, I received my Master's degree from the University of Macau, advised by Prof. Zhenning Li. and my Bachelor's degree from Shaanxi University of Science and Technology.

My research interests lie in Physical AI and autonomous driving, with a focus on enabling intelligent agents to perceive, reason, and act in complex, dynamic environments.

Education

• Texas A&M University 08/2026 – Present
  Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
• University of Macau 08/2023 – 10/2025
  M.S in Computer Science (Outstanding Graduate)
• Shaanxi University of Science & Technology 09/2019 – 06/2023
  B.S in Mathematics (Outstanding Undergraduate)

Experience

Tsinghua University

Research Intern

Nov. 2025 – Apr. 2026

Mentor: Prof. Shengbo Eben Li

DiDi Chuxing

Research Intern

Nov. 2025 – Apr. 2026

Mentor: Dr. Yang Guan

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, Zhenning Li

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2026

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, Zhenning Li

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 Oral (600/12957 = 4.6%)

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

SWIFT: A Small-World Interaction Framework for Flow-Aware Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving.

Chengyue Wang, Bin Rao, Haicheng Liao, Bonan Wang, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenning Li

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026

Selected Awards

• FST MSc Graduate Dean's Honors List, 2026
• Best Paper Award, The 25th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP), 2025
• National Second Prize, China Graduate Contest on Smart-City Technology and Creative Design, 2024
• Outstanding Winner, The International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2022
• National Second Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2021

Professional Services

• Journal Reviewer: IEEE TNNLS, IEEE OJ-ITS, TR-C, EAAI, ESWA, KBS, Neurocomputing, PRL, JTTE, NN.
• Conference Reviewer: IJCAI, ICRA.