Zian Wang (Peter)

103M, Haking Wong Building

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

I am Zian Wang (Peter) (王梓安; Cantonese: Wong Tsz On). I am currently pursuing an M.Phil. degree with Department of Data and Systems Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Chen Sun. Our research group directed by Prof. Sun is called HKU-SAIL Lab. It is a multidisciplinary research team that combines expertise in artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, and human-machine interaction to create breakthrough technologies that advance the field of autonomous systems. My research now focuses on integration of data-driven methods with risk-aware frameworks for improved prediction and safe planning in autonomous driving, and interdisciplinary topics within intelligent transportation systems.

Prior to joining HKU, I received the B.Eng. degree (with Honors) in Electronic and Information Engineering from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2025, with thesis titled “Advancing Cooperative Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Environments with DRL-Optimized SLAM Hyperparameters for Enhanced Map Merging”, supervised by Prof. Ivan Ho Wang-Hei.

💬 My research philosophy is: pursuing 100% open-source research outputs with reproducibility, credibility, and transparency; looking for real world deployment with sim-to-real.

💻 My senior colleagues who work closely with me: Dr. Zejian Deng; Ms. Yiming Shu; Ms. Jiahui Xu.

News

Oct 2026	🎉 Our paper, Generative-Enhanced Cascaded Diagnosis for Fine-Grained Pipeline Fault Severity Recognition with Hybrid LSNet–ViT, has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Reliability! Congratulations Mingjian!
Sep 2026	🎤 HKU-SAIL Lab is organizing the Workshop on Socially Compliant and Strategic Autonomous Driving at IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) 2026 on 15 Sep. Welcome to join us for series of discussions!
Sep 2026	🎉 DREAM has been accepted by Transportation Research Part C!
May 2026	🎉 My first manuscript on autonomous driving has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) 2026! Thanks all the guidance from the senior colleagues and my supervisor. See you in Naples, Italy 🇮🇹!
May 2026	📆 I will serve as the Deputy chairperson of student committee of HKU-ITS from term 2026-2027. Stay tuned for more seminars to come!

Selected publications

TR-C

DREAM: Defensive Risk-Aware Enhanced Maneuver Planning for Autonomous Vehicles in Heterogeneous Traffic

Zian Wang, Yiming Shu, Zejian Deng, Guoshun Cai, Jiahui Xu, Jiwei Tang, Dongpu Cao, and Chen Sun^*

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies· IF: 8.4 , 2026

Accepted

DOI Code
COMMTR

SAFE-AD: Socially-aware field-enhanced reinforcement learning for autonomous driving in interactive traffic

Zian Wang, Wenjie Huang, Zejian Deng, Jiahui Xu, Yiming Shu, Yong Wong, Shen Li, Dongpu Cao, and Chen Sun^*

Communications in Transportation Research · IF: 12.7

Under revision

Code

ITSC

DRIFT: Driving Risk Inference via Field Transmission for Human-like Autonomous Driving

Zian Wang, Yiming Shu, Zejian Deng, and Chen Sun^*

In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2026

Accepted

arXiv Bib Code

@inproceedings{wang2026drift,
  title = {DRIFT: Driving Risk Inference via Field Transmission for Human-like Autonomous Driving},
  author = {Wang, Zian and Shu, Yiming and Deng, Zejian and Sun, Chen},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Accepted},
}

T-REL

Generative-Enhanced Cascaded Diagnosis for Fine-Grained Pipeline Fault Severity Recognition with Hybrid LSNet–ViT

Mingjian Yu^†, Zian Wang^†, Xiangjie Kong, and Chen Sun^*

IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2026

Accepted · Co-first author

Research hierarchy · 2026

An overview of my research hierarchy for the recent year.

HKU-SAIL Lab research demo · 2025–2026

Honors and awards

HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund – Talent Development Scholarship 2024/25
Dean’s Honours List (2023-2024, 2024-2025), Faculty of Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Best Presentation Award at the 2nd PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC 2024)
Championship at HKAES University Pitch Competition on Global Grand Challenges 2023/2024 Presentation
Best GBA Solution Award at Cathay Hackathon 2023
HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Reaching Out Award 2022/23
Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholarship 2023-2024, Graduate School, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Merit Award, EIE Microcontroller Application Design Contest 2022-2023 Interview
Dr Winnie S M Tang-PolyU Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarship, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Album

Moments from different years, on campus and beyond. Browse all photos.