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Zihao Sheng
Google Scholar ID: 3T-SILsAAAAJ
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Human-Centered AI
Autonomous Driving
LLMs/VLMs
Reinforcement Learning
Intelligent Transportation
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zihao.sheng@wisc.edu
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ExploreVLA: Dense World Modeling and Exploration for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
2026
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Sim2Real-AD: A Modular Sim-to-Real Framework for Deploying VLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning in Real-World Autonomous Driving
2026
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DriveVLM-RL: Neuroscience-Inspired Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language Models for Safe and Deployable Autonomous Driving
2026
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Found-RL: foundation model-enhanced reinforcement learning for autonomous driving
2026
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SafePLUG: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Pixel-Level Insight and Temporal Grounding for Traffic Accident Understanding
2025
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A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
2025
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VL-SAFE: Vision-Language Guided Safety-Aware Reinforcement Learning with World Models for Autonomous Driving
2025
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Sky-Drive: A Distributed Multi-Agent Simulation Platform for Socially-Aware and Human-AI Collaborative Future Transportation
2025
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Paper 'Talk2Traffic' accepted to CVPR 2025 with oral presentation
Publications in Transportation Research Part C and Communications in Transportation Research
Selected as one of four UW–Madison nominees for the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship
Recipient of the 2023 Student Research Grants Competition (SRGC) Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2022 Best Dissertation Award from Shanghai Association of Automation (SAA)
2022 Outstanding Master Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Reviewer for top-tier conferences (ICCV, AAAI, ITSC, etc.) and journals (RA-L, TR-C, T-ITS, etc.)
Co-authors
12 total
Sikai Chen
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Zilin Huang
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shibei Xue
Associate Professor, School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yansong Qu
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Soyoung Ahn
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bin Ran
University of Wisconsin at Madison
David Noyce
Professor of Transportation Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dezong Zhao
Professor of Autonomous Systems, Turing Fellow and Newton Advanced Fellow at University of Glasgow
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