👨🎓 About Me
Hi! I am currently a Ph.D. student in Transportation Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Sikai Chen. Before that, I received my master’s from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and bachelor’s from Xi’an Jiaotong University.
My research interests focus on leveraging foundation models and reinforcement learning to enhance autonomous driving performance. Specifically, I explore how foundation models can be used for reward design, personalized learning, and policy generalization, to enable more intelligent, efficient, and safer autonomous vehicles.
🔥 News
- 2025.03: We are invited by Li Auto AD team to present on our latest work VLM-RL 🎉🎉
📝 Selected Publications view all
Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, Yansong Qu, Yue Leng, Sikai Chen
CVPR 2025 WDFM-AD
Zihao Sheng*, Zilin Huang*, Yansong Qu, Yue Leng, Sruthi Bhavanam, Sikai Chen
Preprint, 2025
Zilin Huang*, Zihao Sheng*, Yansong Qu*, Junwei You, Sikai Chen
Preprint, 2024
Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, Sikai Chen
Communications in Transportation Research, 2024
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2023 Student Research Grants Competition (SRGC) Award of University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2022 Best Dissertation Award of Shanghai Association of Automation (SAA)
- 2022 Outstanding Master Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
📖 Educations
- 2023.01 - Present, PhD, Univerity of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
- 2019.09 - 2022.03, MS, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- 2015.09 - 2019.06, BS, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
💡 Services
- Reviewer for Conferences (TRB, ITSC, SMC) and Journals (IEEE RA-L, IEEE T-ITS, T-VT, T-IV, T-MC, TRR).
- Spring 2025, TA, CEE 370 Transportation Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Spring 2024, TA, CEE 370 Transportation Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Fall 2020, TA, Digital Signal Processing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University