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 Computer Science, 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
Department of Computer Science
Supervisor: Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang
MEng @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
Sep. 2021 - Apr. 2024
School of Computer Science
BEng @ Southeast University (SEU)
Sep. 2017 - Jul. 2021
School of Information Engineering
Research Interests
Towards Next-Generation Robust and Efficient Connected Autonomous Driving
This research is dedicated to designing robust and efficient systems for multi-agent connected autonomous driving and generative model-enhanced connected agents. Focusing on the practical deployment of connected autonomous driving, it addresses challenges from the dual perspectives of system efficiency and security. Concurrently, generative models are leveraged to augment data and construct interactive world models, thereby enhancing the generalization and decision-making capabilities of autonomous systems.
Multi-Agent Connected Autonomous Driving
- Efficient System Design for Connected Autonomous Driving: Task partitioning and communication scheduling are employed to address the heterogeneous resources of vehicle and roadside units (RSUs), fully utilizing computational power and bandwidth to improve system throughput and timeliness.
- Security and Defense Mechanisms: Investigation of potential data fabrication attack surfaces in real-world deployments of connected autonomous driving, including cross-view and adaptive perturbations, and development of detection and defense schemes to ensure the robustness of Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) perspectives and multi-stage pipelines.
Generative Model-Enhanced Connected Agents
- Street View Synthesis and Data Augmentation: Generating more diverse scene distributions, including rare events and long-tail cases, based on real-world datasets to systematically augment data and improve the generalization capabilities of connected autonomous driving models.
- World Models and Interactive Platforms: Building upon street view synthesis, temporally consistent generation and 3D box trajectory prediction are incorporated to construct interactive world models. These models can serve as both a testing platform and an online aid for real-time planning and decision-making.
Publications
#equal contribution, *corresponding author.
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Academic Performance Award (OAPA), City University of Hong Kong
2025年度香港城市大学学术优秀奖
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 Transactions on Mobile Computing (2025.08 - now)
- 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 2025-2026
- ICRA 2025
- IUI 2025
- IJCNN 2025
- IEEE ISBI 2025
- IEEE ICC 2025-2026
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2023-2026
- IEEE ICCC 2024
Session Chair
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2023
Contact
Office Address
83 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon, Hong Kong