Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral researcher
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
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