Biography
Yihang Tao received the B.S. degree from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2021 and received his M.S. degree from the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2024. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong (Advisor: Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang). His current research interests include collaborative perception, autonomous driving, and AI security. He serves as the program committee member for ICML 2025, ICLR 2025, AAAI 2025, and the reviewer for IEEE TITS, EAAI, Pattern Recognition, etc.
Education
PhD @ City University of Hong Kong (CITYUHK)
Sep. 2024 - Now
Computer Science
Supervisor: Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang
MEng @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
Sep. 2021 - Apr. 2024
Electronic Information
BEng @ Southeast University (SEU)
Sep. 2017 - Jul. 2021
Information Engineering
Research Interests
Towards Next-Generation Robust Connected Autonomous Driving
My research focuses on developing robust connected autonomous driving systems that operate safely in complex environments. This involves addressing security vulnerabilities in collaborative perception and leveraging foundation models to enhance generalization capabilities of connected agents in unknown scenarios.
Security in Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception
- Vulnerability Discovery and Attack Exploitation: Investigating data fabrication attacks targeting different stages of collaborative perception by exploiting multi-agent viewpoint asymmetries through adversarial perturbations, including adaptive attacks that dynamically adjust strategies.
- Robust Defense and Protection Mechanisms: Designing detection and defense frameworks against data fabrication attacks in BEV perspectives using Hypothesis-and-Verification Framework and Autoencoder-based approaches.
Foundation Model-Enhanced Connected Agents
- World Models for Generative Scenario Synthesis: Utilizing world models with embedded generative modules to synthesize diverse driving scenarios, enabling connected agents to improve robustness and generalization when encountering unseen environments and edge cases.
- Vision-Language Models for Adaptive Reasoning: Leveraging large vision-language models to enable connected vehicles to understand complex driving contexts and make adaptive decisions through natural language reasoning.
Publications
#equal contribution, *corresponding author.
Honors & Awards
ICRA'25 Travel Grant, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
2025年度ICRA机器人与自动化学会旅行资助
Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2024年度上海交通大学优秀毕业生
WEICHAI POWER Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2023年度上海交通大学潍柴动力奖学金
Excellent League Member, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2022年度上海交通大学优秀共青团员
"My Favorite Work" Award, 15th College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Achievements Exhibition, Southeast University
2020年度东南大学大学生创新创业成果展示会"我最喜爱的作品"奖 (Program Leader)
Excellence, National Student Research Training Program (20191028611Z), Southeast University
2020年度国家级大学生创新创业项目优秀结项 (Program Leader)
Excellence, the 2nd International Data Competition, IKCEST
2020年度"一带一路"国际大数据竞赛优秀奖 (top 3%)
Sun Qingyun Innovation Scholarship, Southeast University
2020年度东南大学孙庆云创新奖学金 (Less than 1% each year)
Finalist, the 36th Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), COMAP
2020年度美国大学生数学建模竞赛特等奖提名 (top 1%)
First Prize, the 12th National College Student Information Security Contest, China
2019年度全国大学生信息安全竞赛全国一等奖 (top 8%)
First Prize, the 15th Advanced Mathematics Competition, Jiangsu, China
2018年度全国大学生高等数学竞赛江苏赛区一等奖 (top 10%)
Academic Service
Reviewer for Journals
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2025.01 - now)
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2024.10 - now)
- IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (2024.10 - now)
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2024.10 - now)
- Pattern Recognition (2024.05 - now)
- Neural Networks (2024.09 - now)
- IEEE Networking Letters (2023.11 - now)
PC member for Conferences
- ACM MM 2025
- ICML 2025
- ICLR 2025
- AAAI 2025
- ICRA 2025
- IUI 2025
- IJCNN 2025
- IEEE ISBI 2025
- IEEE ICC 2025
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2023-2025
- IEEE ICCC 2024
Session Chair
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2023
Contact
Office Address
83 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon, Hong Kong