Yanyan Chen (Cheyenne)

Yanyan Chen (Cheyenne)

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PhD Candidate in Traffic Engineering at Beihang University. Research interests include Autonomous Driving, End-to-end frameworks, Foundation Models, and World Models

Yanyan Chen - PhD Candidate at Beihang University

About Me

👋 Welcome!

I am a PhD candidate in the School of Transportation Science and Engineering at Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, with a research focus on Autonomous Driving (AD), End-to-end (E2E) frameworks, Foundation Models (FMs), and World Models (WMs) in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Positioned at the intersection of artificial intelligence and transportation engineering, my work aims to improve the efficiency and safety of future transport systems.

Currently, I am also a visiting PhD student at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2026–2027).

Research Interests

  • 🤖 Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning
  • 🖼️ Vision Perception & Future modelling
  • 🚗 Autonomous Driving Applications

Education

  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Visiting PhD Student (2026-2027)

  • Beihang University
    PhD in Department of Transportation (2023–2027)
    Research areas: E2E Autonomous Driving, Deep Learning, Foundation Models, World Models

  • Jiangsu University
    Master’s degree in Vehicle Engineering (2020–2023)
    Research areas: Autonomous Driving, Environmental Perception

  • Nanjing Institute of Technology
    Bachelor’s degree in Vehicle Service Engineering

Selected Publications

E3AD: Expert-based End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Task Adapters

Y Chen, C Lin, L Yang, Xu Duan, K Qu, J Zhou, D Cao, D Tian. (2026) IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Under Review)

DMP: Difference-Guided Motion Prediction for Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving

Y Chen, C Lin, Xu Duan, J Zhou, K Guo, D Zhao, D Cao, D Tian. (2025) IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 📄 Paper

IDS-MODEL: An Efficient Multitask Model of Road Scene Instance and Drivable Area Segmentation for Autonomous Driving

T Luo, Y Chen, T Luan, B Cai, L Chen, H wang. (2024), IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
📄 Paper (Corresponding author)

SFNet-N: An Improved SFNet Algorithm for Semantic Segmentation of Low-Light Autonomous Driving Road Scenes

H Wang, Y Chen, Y Cai, L Chen, Y Li, M. Sotelo, Z Li. (2022), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
📄 Paper (Student first)

For a full and up-to-date list of my publications: Google Scholar profile.

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