đź’¬ About Me
I am currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in transportation under the supervision of Prof. Jian Sun at Tongji University. From Nov, 2022 to Oct, 2023, I was a visiting researcher in the Chair of Traffic Process Automation at the Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences “Friedrich List” of the TU Dresden under the supervision of Prof. Meng Wang.
Research Interests
- Interactive motion planning
- Social behaviors in driving interaction
- Computational game theory
I am open to any interest on my work or collaborative research topics (zhaoxc@tongji.edu.cn)
🔥 News
- 202412🔥  Excited to announce that our work, “InterHub: A Naturalistic Trajectory Dataset with Dense Interaction for Autonomous Driving”, is now available! Check out the [preprint paper], [dataset], and [code].
- 202407  I will be holding a workshop “Advanced Modeling, Evaluation, and Simulation of Interactions in Mixed Traffic” at ITSC 2024 during September 24- 27, 2024 in Edmonton, Canada.[workshop site]
- 202407  Our work “Towards Interactive Autonomous Vehicle Testing: Vehicle-Under-Test-Centered Traffic Simulation” has been accepted by IEEE ITSC 2024. My colleague Yiru Liu will be presenting this work at ITSC 2024 in Edmonton, Canada.[paper] [code]
- 202404  Our work “Measuring Sociality in Driving Interaction” has been published on IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. [paper]
- 202404  Our proposal “Evidence-Based Communication Channel for Autonomous Driving Technology” has been officially funded by the 2024 IEEE ITSS New Initiatives Program.
- 202401  We present our poster on “Modeling Social Interaction Behaviors and Measuring Driving Sociality in Strong Interactive Scenarios” at 2024 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.
- 202306  We present our paper on “Towards Active Motion Planning in Interactive Driving Scenarios: A Generic Utility Term of Interaction Activeness” at 2023 IEEE IV. [paper]
- 202305 Â We are awarded the golden prize on 2023 International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. [link]
- 202206 Â Our team won the championship of the Commonroad Motion Planning Competition for Autonomous Vehicles! [link] [talk]
đź“ť Selected Publications
arXiv 2024
InterHub: A Naturalistic Trajectory Dataset with Dense Interaction for Autonomous Driving
Xiyan Jiang, Xiaocong Zhao*, Yiru Liu, Zirui Li, Peng Hang, Lu Xiong, and Jian Sun
- A naturalistic driving dataset with dense interactions is extracted from multiple widely adopted public driving datasets, being unified, analyzed, and categorized to provide a user-friendly data foundation.
- A quantitative-yet-readable definition of the driving interaction using the formal method is proposed along with an open access toolkit.
IEEE ITSC 2024
Towards Interactive Autonomous Vehicle Testing: Vehicle-Under-Test-Centered Traffic Simulation
Yiru Liu, Xiaocong Zhao*, Jian Sun
- This study introduces an Vehicle-under-test-Centered environmental Dynamics Inference (VCDI) model for realistic, interactive, and diverse background traffic simulation.
T-ITS 2024
Measuring Sociality in Driving Interaction
Xiaocong Zhao, Jian Sun*, Meng Wang
- We introduce a novel framework designed to analyze social behaviors through driving trajectories.
- By understanding and quantifying social patterns in natural driving interactions, we demonstrate the potential to enhance autonomous driving technologies by incorporating human strategies in expressing sociality.
IEEE IV 2023
IEEE ITSC 2021
AA&P 2020
Xiaocong Zhao, Ren He, Jianqiang Wang*
🎖 Honors and Awards
- Graduate Student Fellowship of China Scholarship Councils (CSC), 2022-2023.
- Champion of CommonRoad Motion Planning Competition, 2022.
- National Scholarship for College Student, 2019 (Top 1%).
- National Scholarship for College Student, 2018 (Top 1%).
- National Scholarship for College Student, 2015 (Top 1%).
Services
Program Committee
- Onsite host and Lead organizer of Workshop on Advanced Modeling, Evaluation, and Simulation of Interactions in Mixed Traffic at ITSC, 2024
- Working group leader of 2024 IEEE ITSS New Initiatives Program “Evidence-Based Communication Channel for Autonomous Driving Technology”
Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Transportation Research Part C
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
- IET Intelligent Transport Systems
- Automotive Innovation
Membership
- IEEE Graduate Student Member
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Member