Professor X.T. YAN
Assistant Professor (Transportation Engineering)

BEng, Tsinghua University, China
PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA

 

 

Office: HW 6-08
Phone: +852 3917 1966
Fax: +852 2559 5337
E-mail: xintaoy@hku.hk
Homepage: https://yougeyxt.github.io/

 

Teaching Activities

• CIVL6054 Engineering for Transport Systems
• GEOG7006 Engineering for Transport Systems

 

Research Interests

• Autonomous Vehicles
• Simulation and World Models
• Testing and Evaluation
• AI Safety
• LLM/VLM/MLLM

 

Professional Activities

• Member of the SAE On-Road Automated Driving (ORAD) Verification and Validation Task Force

 

Representative Publications

• Yan, X., Zou, Z., Feng, S., Zhu, H., Sun, H., and Liu, H. X. (2023). Learning Naturalistic Driving Environment with Statistical Realism. Nature Communications, 14(1), 2037.
• Feng, S., Sun, H., Yan, X., Zhu, H., Zou, Z., Shen, S., and Liu, H. X. (2023). Dense Reinforcement Learning for Safety Validation of Autonomous Vehicles. Nature, 615(7953), 620-627.
• Feng, S., Yan, X., Sun, H., Feng, Y., and Liu, H. X. (2021). Intelligent Driving Intelligence Test for Autonomous Vehicles with Naturalistic and Adversarial Environment. Nature Communications, 12(1), 748.
• Yan, X., Feng, S., Sun, H., and Liu, H. X. (2025). Distributionally Consistent Simulation of Naturalistic Driving Environment for Autonomous Vehicle Testing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 26(7), 9187-9200.
• Yan, X., Feng, S., LeBlanc, D. J., Flannagan, C., and Liu, H. X. (2024). Evaluation of Automated Driving System Safety Metrics with Logged Vehicle Trajectory Data. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 25(8), 8913-8925.

 

For more information of Professor Xintao YAN, please visit https://yougeyxt.github.io/.