Publications


Mixed Traffic Control and Coordination

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    Mixed Crowd Navigation: Perception, Interaction, Planning, and Control
    Jia Pan​, Weizi Li​, Wenxi Liu​, Iftekharul Islam​, Ke Guo​, Yajue Yang​, Shuai Zhang​, Xuebo Ji​, ​and​ Dawei Wang
    Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems​, 2025
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    Large-Scale Mixed-Traffic and Intersection Control using Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
    Songyang Liu​, Muyang Fan​, Weizi Li​, Jing Du​, ​and​ Shuai Li
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2025
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    Heterogeneous Mixed Traffic Control and Coordination
    Iftekharul Islam​, Weizi Li​, Xuan Wang​, Shuai Li​, ​and​ Kevin Heaslip
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2025
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    Origin-Destination Pattern Effects on Large-Scale Mixed Traffic Control via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Muyang Fan​, Songyang Liu​, Shuai Li​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)​, 2025
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    Learning to Control and Coordinate Mixed Traffic Through Robot Vehicles at Complex and Unsignalized Intersections
    Dawei Wang​, Weizi Li​, Lei Zhu​, ​and​ Jia Pan
    International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)​, 2024
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    EnduRL: Enhancing Safety, Stability, and Efficiency of Mixed Traffic Under Real-World Perturbations Via Reinforcement Learning
    Bibek Poudel​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Kevin Heaslip
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2024
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    CARL: Congestion-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Imitation-based Perturbations in Mixed Traffic Control
    Bibek Poudel​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Shuai Li
    International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER)​, 2024
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    Large-scale Mixed Traffic Control Using Dynamic Vehicle Routing and Privacy-Preserving Crowdsourcing
    Dawei Wang​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Jia Pan
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)​, 2024
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    Analyzing Emissions and Energy Efficiency in Mixed Traffic Control at Unsignalized Intersections
    Michael Villarreal​, Dawei Wang​, Jia Pan​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE Forum for Innovative Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS)​, 2024
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    Mixed Traffic Control and Coordination from Pixels
    Michael Villarreal​, Bibek Poudel​, Jia Pan​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)​, 2024
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    Can ChatGPT Enable ITS? The Case of Mixed Traffic Control via Reinforcement Learning
    Michael Villarreal​, Bibek Poudel​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)​, 2023


Traffic Simulation and Reconstruction

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    LASIL: Learner-Aware Supervised Imitation Learning For Long-term Microscopic Traffic Simulation
    Ke Guo​, Zhenwei Miao​, Wei Jing​, Weiwei Liu​, Weizi Li​, Dayang Hao​, ​and​ Jia Pan
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)​, 2024
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    A Survey on Visual Traffic Simulation: Models, Evaluations, and Applications in Autonomous Driving
    Qianwen Chao​, Huikun Bi​, Weizi Li​, Tianlu Mao​, Zhaoqi Wang​, Ming C. Lin​, ​and​ Zhigang Deng
    Computer Graphics Forum​, 2020
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    City-Scale Traffic Animation Using Statistical Learning and Metamodel-Based Optimization
    Weizi Li​, David Wolinski​, ​and​ Ming C. Lin
    SIGGRAPH Asia​, 2017
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    Virtualized Traffic at Metropolitan Scales
    David Wilkie​, Jason Sewall​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Ming C. Lin
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI​, 2015


Traffic Prediction, Estimation, and Analysis

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    MIAT: Maneuver-Intention-Aware Transformer for Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Prediction
    Chandra Raskoti​, Iftekharul Islam​, Xuan Wang​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2025
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    Beacon: A Naturalistic Driving Dataset During Blackouts for Benchmarking Traffic Reconstruction and Control
    Supriya Sarker​, Iftekharul Islam​, Bibek Poudel​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2025
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    Data-driven Graph Filter based Graph Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Network-Level Multi-Step Traffic Prediction
    Lei Lin​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Lei Zhu
    Sustainability​, 2022
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    Assessing Inequality, Irregularity, and Severity Regarding Road Traffic Safety During COVID-19
    Lei Lin​, Feng Shi​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    Nature Scientific Reports​, 2021
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    Black-box Adversarial Attacks on Network-wide Multi-step Traffic State Prediction Models
    Bibek Poudel and Weizi Li
    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)​, 2021
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    Efficient Data Collection and Accurate Travel Time Estimation in A Connected Vehicle Environment via Real-Time Compressive Sensing
    Lei Lin​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Srinivas Peeta
    Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation​, 2019
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    Estimating Urban Traffic States Using Iterative Refinement and Wardrop Equilibria
    Weizi Li​, Meilei Jiang​, Yaoyu Chen​, ​and​ Ming C. Lin
    IET Intelligent Transport Systems​, 2018
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    Citywide Estimation of Traffic Dynamics Via Sparse GPS Traces
    Weizi Li​, Dong Nie​, David Wilkie​, ​and​ Ming C. Lin
    IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine​, 2017


Autonomous Driving, Planning, and Control

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    Robust Online Calibration for UWB-Aided Visual-Inertial Navigation with Bias Correction
    Yizhi Zhou​, Jie Xu​, Jiawei Xia​, Zechen Hu​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Xuan Wang
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​​, 2025
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    AutoJoin: Efficient Adversarial Training for Robust Maneuvering via Denoising Autoencoder and Joint Learning
    Michael Villarreal​, Bibek Poudel​, Ryan Wickman​, Yu Shen​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​​, 2024
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    Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Using LSTMs with Spatial-Temporal Attention Mechanisms
    Lei Lin​, Weizi Li​, Huikun Bi​, ​and​ Lingqiao Qin
    IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine​, 2022
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    Learning to Control DC Motor for Micromobility in Real Time with Reinforcement Learning
    Bibek Poudel​, Thomas Watson​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)​, 2022
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    Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Hybrid-weight Trust-region Optimization and Curriculum Learning for Autonomous Maneuvering
    Yu Shen​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Ming C. Lin
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2022
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    Gradient-Free Adversarial Training Against Image Corruption for Learning-based Steering
    Yu Shen​, Laura Zheng​, Manli Shu​, Weizi Li​, Tom Goldstein​, ​and​ Ming C. Lin
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)​, 2021
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    ADAPS: Autonomous Driving Via Principled Simulations
    Weizi Li​, David Wolinski​, ​and​ Ming C. Lin
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)​, 2019


Multi-agent System and Simulation

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    Swarm Robotic Flocking With Aggregation Ability Privacy
    Shuai Zhang​, Yunke Huang​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Jia Pan
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering​, 2025
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    Biologically-Inspired Visual Simulation of Insect Swarms
    Weizi Li​, David Wolinski​, Julien Pettré​, ​and​ Ming C. Lin
    Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics)​, 2015


Reinforcement Learning Applications

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    Joint Pedestrian and Vehicle Traffic Optimization in Urban Environments using Reinforcement Learning
    Bibek Poudel​, Xuan Wang​, Weizi Li​, Lei Zhu​, ​and​ Kevin Heaslip
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2025
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    Reinforcement learning based multi-perspective motion planning of manned electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle in urban environment with wind fields
    Songyang Liu​, Weizi Li​, Haochen Li​, ​and​ Shuai Li
    Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)​, 2025
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    PulseRide: A Robotic Wheelchair for Personalized Exertion Control with Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning
    Azizul Zahid​, Bibek Poudel​, Danny Scott​, Jason Scott​, Scott Crouter​, Weizi Li​, ​and​ Sai Swaminathan
    IEEE/ACM conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE)​, 2025
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    Efficient Quality-Diversity Optimization Through Diverse Quality Species
    Ryan Wickman​, Bibek Poudel​, Michael Villarreal​, Xiaofei Zhang​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)​, 2023
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    A Generic Graph Sparsification Framework using Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Ryan Wickman​, Xiaofei Zhang​, ​and​ Weizi Li
    IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)​, 2022


Human-centered Computing

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    VibRun: Real-time Unobtrusive Gait Analysis for Treadmill Running Via Footstep Vibrations
    Tianhao Wu​, Yi Wu​, Bibek Poudel​, Syed Irfan Ali Meerza​, Rajasi Gore Athawale​, Weizi Li​, Zan Gao​, Çağdaş Karataş​, ​and​ Jian Liu
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)​, 2025
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    Human-Robot Co-Transportation using Disturbance-Aware MPC with Pose Optimization
    Al Jaber Mahmud​, Amir Hossain Raj​, Duc M. Nguyen​, Weizi Li​, Xuesu Xiao​, ​and​ Xuan Wang
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)​, 2025