Zilin Huang

Ph.D. Student
Research Assistant
​Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: Engineering Centers Building 1066
Email: zilin.huang@wisc.edu
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Hey, thanks for stopping by! :wave:

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student in Transportation Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the guidance of Prof. Sikai (Sky) Chen. I’m also the Co-Founder of Sky-Lab. Before joining UW-Madison, I worked with Prof. Samuel Labi at the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), Purdue University.

My research interest lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Human-computer Interactions, Traffic Flow Theory, Control Theory, Cognitive Sciences, and their applications to intelligent autonomous systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, drones, cyber-physical systems). And, I have a strong passion for bridging the gap between technical findings and their practical implementation. Before embarking on my Ph.D. journey, I established two technology companies in China. :grin:

More specifically, I am currently interested in these challenges:

  • Human-in-the-loop AI
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Human-AI Collaboration
  • Vision/Large Language Models
  • Emobodied AI
The ultimate goal of my research is to develop Human-centered, Trustworthy, Interactive, and Social Awareness autonomous embodied agents that can perceive, understand, and reason about complex transportation environments; safely interact and collaborate with road users; and efficiently coordinate with other intelligent agents so that they can benefit society in daily life by enhancing travel Safety, Mobility, Efficiency, and Sustainability.

Recent News

Oct 18, 2024 🎉 Paper Traffic expertise meets residual RL: Knowledge-informed model-based residual reinforcement learning for CAV trajectory control is published on Communications in Transportation Research.
Sep 1, 2024 📢 We currently released one paper: Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration: Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and Physics Knowledge for Safe Autonomous Driving.
Jun 13, 2024 🎉 Paper Toward C-V2X Enabled Connected Transportation System: RSU-Based Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles is published on IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Apr 8, 2024 🎉 Paper Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving is published on Communications in Transportation Research.
Jan 12, 2024 👏 I attended the TRB 2024 Annual Meeting.

Please check this webpage for more news about me.

Selected Publications

  1. Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration: Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and Physics Knowledge for Safe Autonomous Driving
    Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, and Sikai Chen*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00858 , 2024
  2. COMMTR
    Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving
    Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Chengyuan Ma, and Sikai Chen*
    Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) , 2024
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  3. IEEE-TITS
    Toward C-V2X Enabled Connected Transportation System: RSU-Based Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles
    Zilin Huang, Sikai Chen*, Yuzhuang Pian, Zihao Sheng, Soyoung Ahn, and David A Noyce
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-TITS) , 2024

Please check this webpage for more publications.