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About me
I am a PhD student at ROAS Thrust, HKUST(GZ), supervised by Prof. Jun MA. My research interests center around motion planning in Autonomous Driving and Robotics.
News
2024-12-02 Our paper Hierarchical prediction uncertainty-aware motion planning for autonomous driving in lane-changing scenarios accepted to Transportation Research Part C.
2024-03-31 Our conference paper Hierarchical Uncertainty-aware Autonomous Driving in Lane-changing Scenarios: Behavior Prediction and Motion Planning accepted to IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium 2024.
2022-11-21 One paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.
2022-01-27 Addmission to HKUST as a PhD student, under the Guangzhou Pilot Scheme. Congrats!
2022-01-22 A manuscript submitted to Transportation Research Part C. Click here to view the preprint version.
2021-09-22 One paper accepted to Transportation Research Part C!
Recent Publications
Preprints
Yao, R., Wang, Y., Liu, H., Yang, R., Peng, Z., Zhu, L., & Ma, J.* (2024). CALMM-Drive: Confidence-Aware Autonomous Driving with Large Multimodal Model. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04209.[link]
Liu, H., Yao, R., Huang, Z., Shen, S., & Ma, J.* (2024). LMMCoDrive: Cooperative Driving with Large Multimodal Model. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11981.[link]
Published / Accepted Papers
Yao, R., & Sun, X.* (2025). Hierarchical prediction uncertainty-aware motion planning for autonomous driving in lane-changing scenarios. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 171, 104962.[link]
Yao, R., & Sun, X.* (2024, June). Hierarchical Uncertainty-aware Autonomous Driving in Lane-changing Scenarios: Behavior Prediction and Motion Planning. In 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) (pp. 715-721). IEEE.[link]
Lin, Z., He, Z.*, Yao, R., Wang, X., Liu, T., Deng, Y., & Xie, S. (2022). Deep dual attention network for precise diagnosis of covid-19 from chest ct images. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. [link]
Yao, R., Zeng, W.*, Chen, Y., & He, Z. (2021). A deep learning framework for modelling left-turning vehicle behaviour considering diagonal-crossing motorcycle conflicts at mixed-flow intersections. Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, 132, 103415. [link]