👩‍🎓 About Me

I’m currently pursuing my Ph.D. degree in transportation engineering, guided by Prof. Jian Sun at Tongji University. My research interests include human-robot interaction, autonomous driving and driving behavior modeling.

🔥 News

• 202407  Our work “Towards Interactive Autonomous Vehicle Testing: Vehicle-Under-Test-Centered Traffic Simulation” has been accepted by IEEE ITSC 2024. I will be presenting this work at ITSC 2024 in Edmonton, Canada.[paper] [code]
• 202401  We present our poster on “Modeling Social Interaction Behaviors and Measuring Driving Sociality in Strong Interactive Scenarios” at 2024 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.

📝 Publications

IEEE ITSC 2024

Towards Interactive Autonomous Vehicle Testing: Vehicle-Under-Test-Centered Traffic Simulation

Yiru Liu, Xiaocong Zhao*, Jian Sun

• This study introduces an Vehicle-under-test-Centered environmental Dynamics Inference (VCDI) model for realistic, interactive, and diverse background traffic simulation.

IEEE T-ITS 2024

Sociality Probe: Game-Theoretic Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Modeling and Quantifying Social Patterns in Driving Interaction

Yiru Liu, Xiaocong Zhao, Ye Tian*, Jian Sun

• This research proposes a Game-Theoretic Inverse Reinforcement Learning (GT-IRL) approach to quantify individualized sociality in driving interactions. Additionally, it reveals patterns of sociality across various scenarios, regions, and individuals, providing valuable insights into human-machine interactions.

📖 Educations

• 2023.08 - now, Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai.
• 2020.08 - 2023.06, Master’s Degree in Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai.
• 2016.08 - 2020.06, Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing.