publications | Zian Wang (Peter)

An asterisk (*) indicates the corresponding author; a dagger (†) indicates a co-first author.

First-authored and co-first-authored

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

Collaborative work

Beyond Scene Priors: Fine-Grained Traffic Scene Reasoning with Benchmarking and Query-Guided Small-Object Focus

Waikit Xiu, Qiang Lu, Zian Wang, Zhiwei Chen, Chen Sun, and Xiying Li

Under review

arXiv Bib

@misc{xiu2026scene,
  title = {Beyond Scene Priors: Fine-Grained Traffic Scene Reasoning with Benchmarking and Query-Guided Small-Object Focus},
  author = {Xiu, Waikit and Lu, Qiang and Wang, Zian and Chen, Zhiwei and Sun, Chen and Li, Xiying},
  note = {Under review},
}

Nash Game MPC With Inexact Equilibrium Computation and Intermittent Information Update

Guoshun Cai, Chen Sun, Zejian Deng, Jiahui Xu, Zian Wang, Guodong Yin, and Chao Huang

Under second round of review
GameDiffusion: A Diffusion Models with Adaptive Game-Inspired Guidance

Jiahui Xu, Guoshun Cai, Jiaru Zhong, Yong Wang, Yiming Shu, Zian Wang, Lap-Pui Chau, and Chen Sun^*

Under second round of review