CV
Here is my full CV: Yilin Wang’s Resume
Education
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Intelligent Transportation System), Purdue University, Spring 2027 (expected)
- Research Area: Connected and Automated Vehicle, Cooperative Perception, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Network Operation and Control
- GPA: 3.8/4.00
- M.S. in Advanced Infrastructure System, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020
- Area: Smart City, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
- Courses: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Geo-Informatics System
- GPA: 3.87/4.00
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, 2019
- Major: Geo-technical and Underground Engineering
Work Experience
- Dec 2025 - Jun 2026: Simulation Development Engineer Intern
- Inchor (SaferDrive AI), Ann Arbor, MI
- Developed and maintained TeraSim, an open-source city-scale traffic simulation platform for autonomous vehicle safety validation
- Implemented a full-stack Driving Foundation Model into product
- Led a joint project with NVIDIA and the City of San Jose on agent-driven Smart City operation
- Initiated and developed Agent-Sim, an agentic world model for autonomous driving safety validation
- Supervisor: Professor Henry Liu
- Fall 2021 - Present: Research Assistant
- Purdue University
- Research Area: Connected and Automated Vehicle, Cooperative Perception, V2X Communication
- Supervisor: Professor Yiheng Feng
- Jan 2020 - Dec 2020: Research Assistant
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Research Area: Natural Language Processing, Smart City
- Supervisor: Professor Pingbo Tang
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, C++, MATLAB, JavaScript
- Data Science & Machine Learning: PyTorch, CUDA, Hugging Face
- Cloud Technologies: AWS, SSH
- DevOps & Version Control: Linux, Docker, Conda
- Cooperation Platform & Project Management: Jira, Slack, GitHub
- Other Tools & Technologies: Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, ArcGIS
- Research Skills: Critical Thinking, Research Talk, Comprehensive Writing, Literature Review
Honors and Awards
Publications
Yilin Wang, Yiheng Feng* (2026). "A Cooperative Perception Based Dynamic Vehicle Routing Framework for Urban Traffic Monitoring." Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2026, Poster Presentation.
Hanlin Chen, Vamsi K Bandaru, Yilin Wang, Mario A Romero, Andrew Tarko, Yiheng Feng* (2024). "Cooperative Perception System for Aiding Connected and Automated Vehicle Navigation and Improving Safety." Transportation Research Record, 2678(12), 1498-1510.
Yilin Wang and Yiheng Feng* (2024). "IDM-Follower: A Model-Informed Deep Learning Method for Car-Following Trajectory Prediction." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 5014-5020.
Yilin Wang, Yiheng Feng* (2024). "Dynamic Routing of Connected and Automated Vehicles for Improving Network Coverage." Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2024, Poster Presentation.
Ya-Dong Xue, Wei Zhang, Yilin Wang*, et al. (2023). "Serviceability evaluation of highway tunnels based on data mining and machine learning: A case study of continental United States." Tunneling and Underground Space Technology, Volume 142, 105418.
Talks
November 03, 2026
Conference Presentation at INFORMS 2026 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA
January 01, 2026
Poster Presentation at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2026, Washington, D.C., USA
June 01, 2024
Conference Presentation at IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2024, Jeju Island, South Korea
January 01, 2024
Poster Presentation at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2024, Washington, D.C., USA
Peer Review & Service
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies — Journal Reviewer (2024, 2025)
- Multimedia Tools and Applications — Journal Reviewer (2023-2025)
- IEEE Transaction of Intelligent Vehicle — Journal Reviewer (2024, 2025)
- Journal of Intelligent Transportation System — Journal Reviewer (2023-2025)
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Conference (ITSC) — Conference Reviewer (2024)
- IEEE-IV24 Workshop on Socially Interactive Autonomous Mobility — Committee Member (2024)
