Haoran Wang, Associate Professor, has been selected for the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents, the Shanghai Sailing Program for Young Scientific and Technological Talents, and the Shanghai“Super Postdoctoral”Program. He has served as principal investigator for nine provincial-/ministerial-level or above research projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and key projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has published more than 60 academic papers in leading journals such as Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, as well as top conferences including CVPR Findings and IEEE IROS. His work has received several recognitions, including the IEEE CCDC Outstanding Young Paper Award, the IEEE CVCI Outstanding Young Paper Nomination, and the Second Prize in the IEEE CVCI Electric Vehicle Energy-Saving Algorithm Challenge. He holds 17 granted invention patents and served as an editorial board member for the China Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE-China) white paper titled“Applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Driving.”He has collaborated on multiple projects with leading companies such as SAIC, Chery, Geely, and Baidu. His research outcomes have received several awards, including the SAE International Excellence in Innovation Award (2nd contributor), the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Outstanding Application Award (2nd contributor), the Second Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the China Highway Society Science and Technology Award, and the Second Prize of the SAE-China Science and Technology Progress Award.
Educational background
2013.09-2017.06 Tongji University, Bachelor in Transportation Engineering
2017.09-2022.03 Tongji University, Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering
Work experience
2022.04-2025.03 Tongji University, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Transportation Engineering
2025.03-Present Tongji University, Associate Professor, College of Transportation Engineering
Research interests
1.Autonomous Driving Decision-making:E2E、VLA、PnC, etc.
2. Vehicle-Road Cooperative Decision-making: Cooperative driving, vehicle platooning, eco-drive, etc.
Honors & Awards
1.IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Best Application Award, 2025 (Rank 2/8)
2.SAE International Award for Excellence in Innovation, 2024 (Rank 2/5)
3.Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class Prize), 2024 (Rank 6/10)
4.China Highway and Transportation Society Science and Technology Award (First Class Prize), 2023 (Rank 5/12)
5.China-SAE Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class Prize), 2023 (Rank 6/10)
6. China Intelligent Transportation Association Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class Prize), 2022 (Rank 7/10)
Publications
1.Lian, Z.†,Wang, H.†, Yan, X., Lin, W., Zhang, X., Chen, Y., & Hu, J. 2026. Fine-tuning Is Not Enough: A Parallel Framework for Collaborative Imitation and Reinforcement Learning in End-to-end Autonomous Driving. Findings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
2.Hu, J., Lei, M.,Wang, H.*, Liu, Z., & Yang, F. (2025). Accelerating the evolution of personalized automated lane change through lesson learning. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. (SCI, Q1)
3.Wang, H., Lian, Z., Li, Z., Wang, J., Eichberger, A., Hu, J., ... & Gao, Y. (2025). Human-machine shared control approach for the takeover of cooperative adaptive cruise control. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.(SCI, Q1)
4.Yan, X., Lian, Z., Hu, J., Feng, Y., Song, B., &Wang, H.*(2025, October). Continuously Improved Reinforcement Learning for Automated Driving. In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 15268-15275). IEEE. (机器人顶会）
5.Lian, Z., Yan, X., Bi, R.,Wang, H.*, & Hu, J. (2025, October). ExpliDrive: Bridging Model Predictive Control and Transformers for Interactive Autonomous Driving. In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 13666-13673). IEEE. (机器人顶会）
6.Li, S.,Wang, H.*, & Hu, J. (2025). Ecological driving at an actuated signalized intersection: A practical solution of Vehicle-Road-Cloud Integration system. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 177, 105198. (SCI, Q1)
7.Hu, J., Wang, S., Zhang, Y.,Wang, H.*, Liu, Z., & Cao, G. (2025). Safety-aware human-lead vehicle platooning by proactively reacting to uncertain human behaving. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 170, 104941.(SCI, Q1)
8.Hu, J., Feng, Y., Li, S.,Wang, H.*, So, J., & Zheng, J. (2024). Mirroring the Parking Target: An Optimal-Control-Based Parking Motion Planner with Strengthened Parking Reliability and Faster Parking Completion. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. (SCI, Q1)
9.Wang, H., Lai, J., Zhang, X., Zhou, Y., Li, S., & Hu, J. (2022). Make space to change lane: A cooperative adaptive cruise control lane change controller. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 143, 103847. (SCI, Q1)
10.Wang, H., Hu, J., Feng, Y., & Li, X. (2022). Optimal control-based highway pilot motion planner with stochastic traffic consideration. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 15(1), 421-436. (SCI, Q1)