👋 I am a PhD student at Tongji University, affiliated with the Institute of Intelligent Vehicles (TJU-IIV). Previously completed my bachelor’s degree at Jilin University, graduating as an Outstanding Graduate (Top 1%). I am currently under the supervision of Prof. Yanjun Huang, who is National High-level Talent in China.
🚘 My research centers on the continual closed-loop evolution of autonomous systems. I focus on enabling self-evolving, adaptive, and trustworthy autonomous systems through Reinforcement learning, Continual learning, and LLM reasoning.
🔥 News
- 2025.10: 🌟 Selected as a Pioneer Scholar in the SAE Doctoral Talent Program.
- 2025.07: 👏 Our paper GEMINUS on the Mixture-of-Experts framework for end-to-end autonomous driving has been released.
- 2025.05: 👏 Our survey CoT4AD on Chain-of-Thought for autonomous driving has been released.
- 2025.02: 👏 Our paper MoPE on continual adaptation of learning-based autonomous driving has been released.
- 2024.09: 🎓 Started my Ph.D. studies at Tongji University.
- 2024.06: 🎉 Graduated from Jilin University with the honor of Outstanding Bachelor Graduate!
- 2022.11: 📑 My first invention patent ZL114655114A has been officially granted.
📝 Publications
GEMINUS: Dual-aware Global and Scene-Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Chi Wan, Yixin Cui, Jiatong Du, Shuo Yang, Yulong Bai, Yanjun Huang*
GEMINUS, a Mixture-of-Experts framework for end-to-end autonomous driving with a dual-aware router, achieves state-of-the-art performance and robust adaptability across diverse traffic scenarios.
Media Coverage: Featured in the Heart of Autonomous Driving Read more »
arXiv, 2025 | 
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Chain-of-Thought for Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Prospects
Yixin Cui, Haotian Lin, Shuo Yang, Yixiao Wang, Yanjun Huang*, Hong Chen
We explore how Chain-of-Thought reasoning enhances autonomous driving systems and propose its integration with self-learning for continual model evolution.
Media Coverage: Featured in the Autonomous Driving Column Read more »
arXiv, 2025 | |
Continual Adaptation for Autonomous Driving with the Mixture of Progressive Experts Network
Yixin Cui , Shuo Yang, Chi Wan, Xincheng Li, Jiaming Xing, Yuanjian Zhang, Yanjun Huang*, Hong Chen
MoPE enables continual adaptation in autonomous driving via progressive expert activation, achieving strong performance in complex driving scenarios.
arXiv, 2025 |
🔬 Project
HEAD: Holistic Evolutionary Autonomous Driving
Institute of Intelligent Vehicles, Tongji University, 2024.10 - now
Student Leader
HEAD is a holistic suite of evolutionary autonomous driving software, based on the MetaDrive simulation platform, that seamlessly imports driving scenarios, uploads training models, and efficiently performs continuous training designed to significantly improve the performance of arbitrary models.
I led the presentation of the project at the National Industrial Software Conference, where it received high praise from experts.
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🏆 Awards
- 2024.11 National First Prize, 2024 China Intelligent Vehicle Future Challenge – Complex Traffic Environment Algorithm Track (NSFC)
- 2024.11 Province Second Prize, 2024 China–Shandong Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for PhD and Postdoctoral Talents
- 2022.11 National First Prize, 2022 GAC Honda Automobile Road Safety Innovation Competition
- 2021.08 National Second Prize, 2021 National College Student Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Competition
🏅 Honors
- 2025.10 Pioneer Scholar, SAE Doctoral Talent Program 🏅 (One of 10 nationwide)
- 2024.06 Outstanding Graduate of Jilin University (Top 1%)
- 2023.09 MAXUS Automative Scholarship, awarded by SAIC MAXUS Automotive Co., Ltd. (Top 2%)
- 2022.09 Suzhou Industrial Zone Scholarship, funded by the Suzhou Government of Jiangsu Province (Top 1%)
- 2020-2024 First-class Scholarship of Jilin University (Four times, Top 2%)
- 2020-2024 Academic and Scientific Scholarship of Jilin University (Four times, Top 5%)
📖 Educations
- 2024.09 - Now, Ph.D., Automotive Engineering,
Tongji University (TJU), Shanghai, China (Test Waiver Admission) - 2020.09 - 2024.06, B.Eng., Automotive Operation Engineering,
Jilin University (JLU), Changchun, China (Outstanding Graduate,Top 1%) - 2017.09 - 2020.07, High School Diploma,
Haian Senior School of Jiangsu Province, Nantong, China
📚 Academic Services
Journal Reviewer:
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | T-ITS
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering | Part D
Conference Reviewer:
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation | ICRA 2025
🗣️ Talks
- 2025.10, Youth PhD Talent Program during the China-SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Congress & Exhibition, on the topic of Continual Self-Evolution in Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving Systems
- 2025.05, Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Academic Talk at Tongji University, on the topic of Continual Self-Evolution in Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving Systems
- 2023.10, Presentation of National Excellent Bachelor Project, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program: Design of an Automatic Rear-End Collision Warning System for Vehicles (Project Leader)
- 2021.10, Presentation of National Excellent Bachelor Project, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program: Visual Filter Based on Self-Driven Film Materials (Project Participant)
📌 Hobbies
- 🏓 I enjoy playing table tennis and am currently a member of the Tongji University Team. During my undergraduate studies, I served as the Vice President of the Jilin University Table Tennis Association.
- ♟️ I have a strong interest in strategic board games and play Go at an amateur 2-dan level.
- 🎸 I enjoy playing acoustic guitar (Level 8). My favorite guitarist is Masaaki Kishibe, whose music greatly inspires my playing.
- ⚽️ I am a loyal supporter of Arsenal Football Club, with the former coach Arsène Wenger being a major source of inspiration — COYG!
- 🎮 I enjoy Nintendo games, particularly Super Mario Maker 2 for its creativity and fun.
- 📸 Recently, I’ve also been exploring baseball, fitness and photography to enrich my daily life.