Principal Investigator

Ziran Wang

Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
Purdue University

Email: ziran [at] purdue [dot] edu

Postdoctoral researcher

Jiaru Zhang

Education Background

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Research Interests

Uncertainty in Autonomous Driving, Bayesian Neural Networks, Causal Discovery

Email: jiaru [at] purdue [dot] edu

Ph.D. Students

Can Cui

Education Background

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Interests

LLMs in Automated Driving, Digital Twin, ADAS, Machine learning, Controls

Internship

Cummins, 2024 Summer
Toyota, 2025 Spring

Email: cancui [at] purdue [dot] edu

Juanwu (David) Lu

Education Background

M.S. in Civil Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

Microscopic Traffic Simulation, Driver Behavior, Autonomous Vehicles

Internship

Zoox, 2024 Summer
Waymo Research, 2025 Summer

Email: juanwu [at] purdue [dot] edu

Yunsheng Ma

Education Background

M.S. in Computer Science
New York University

Research Interests

Autonomous Driving, Foundation Models, Spatial Reasoning

Internship

Toyota, 2024 Summer
Bosch AI, 2024 Fall & 2025 Spring
Waymo Research, 2025 Summer & Fall

Email: yunsheng [at] purdue [dot] edu

Sung-Yeon Park

Education Background

M.S. in Civil Engineering
Seoul National University

Research Interests

Autonomous Driving, Multimodal LLMs, 3D Scene Understanding

Email: sungyeon [at] purdue [dot] edu

Juntong Peng

Education Background

B.S. in Information Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Co-supervisor

Prof. Yaobin Chen

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Motion Prediction

Internship

Toyota, 2025 Summer

Email: juntong [at] purdue [dot] edu

Zichong Yang

Education Background

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Co-supervisor

Prof. Jitesh Panchal

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Human Pose Estimation, Human Trajectory Prediction

Internship

XPENG, 2025 Summer & Fall

Email: zichong [at] purdue [dot] edu

Yupeng Zhou

Education Background

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University

Co-supervisor

Prof. Bin Yao

Research Interests

Robotics, Controls, Autonomous Vehicles

Email: zhou1346 [at] purdue [dot] edu

Guanxiao Li

Education Background

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University

Co-supervisor

Prof. Lingxi Li

Research Interests

Autonomous Driving, Multimodal LLMs, Deep Reinforcement Learning

Email: li4992 [at] purdue [dot] edu

Yaguang Li

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

Control and Learning Theory, Autonomous Driving, Robotics

Email: li5867 [at] purdue [dot] edu

Master students

Luyang Jiang

Education Background

B.Eng. In Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia

Research Interests

Autonomous Driving, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Internship

Wonder, 2024 Summer

Email: jian1078 [at] purdue [dot] edu

Prashanth Sankaranarayanan

Education Background

B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Autonomous Driving, Motion Planning, Computer Vision, ADAS

Email: sankarap [at] purdue [dot] edu

Anirudh Raghavan

Education Background

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, Machine Learning

Email: raghav22 [at] purdue [dot] edu

Suhani Mathur

Education Background

B.S. in Computer Engineering
Purdue University

Research Interests

Autonomous Driving, Motor Control, Machine Learning

Email: mathur60 [at] purdue [dot] edu

Undergraduate students

Manav Gagvani

Current Enrollment

B.S. in Computer Engineering
Purdue University

Research Interests

Learned Autonomy, Robotic Foundation Models, Embedded ML

Email: mgagvani [at] purdue [dot] edu

Patrick Shen

Current Enrollment

B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Purdue University

Research Interests

Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, LLMs

Email: shen742 [at] purdue [dot] edu

Kyungmin Kim

Current Enrollment

B.S. in Computer Science
Purdue University

Research Interests

Autonomous driving, Control, Motion Prediction

Email: kim3508 [at] purdue [dot] edu

Alumni

Zihao Li

First Employment

North Central Texas Council of Governments

Purdue Degree

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024

Peiran Liu

First Employment

PhD Student in Industrial Engineering

Purdue Degree

M.S. in Industrial Engineering, 2024

Shubham Khawale

First Employment

Dayton-Phoenix Group

Purdue Degree

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2023

Rohit Naidu

First Employment

Texas Instruments

Purdue Degree

B.S. in Computer Engineering, 2023

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