Hi! I’m the guy who knows a guy that knows another guy. I’m a second-year Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Engineering at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Fatemeh Ghoreishi. I completed my B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and my M.S. in Operations Research and Cybernetics at Nankai University, where I worked with Prof. Zhongxin Liu.

My research focuses on developing machine-learning–driven methods for autonomous driving systems, with particular interests in driving-style modeling, risk-sensitive reinforcement learning, and sim-to-real generalization for complex dynamical systems. If you would like to learn more about my work or explore potential collaborations, please feel free to reach out at wang.dej@northeastern.edu.

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For publications, please refer to my Google Scholar.

🔥 News

1. 2026.06 — One paper is accepted by the IEEE IROS 2026 conference 🎉！
2. 2026.06 — Proud to share that our Nantianmen Dragon Boat Team won the bronze medal in the Division C Major category at the Boston race. As the captain, I could not be prouder of our team. GOGOGO! Nantianmen 🥉🥉🥉!
3. 2026.06 — One paper is accepted by the International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research 🎉 My first journal paper. So excited that I could cry.
4. 2026.05 — One paper is accepted by the IEEE ITSC 2026 conference 🎉！
5. 2026.03 — Presented the poster “RGDR: Reward-Guided Domain Randomization for Autonomous Driving” at CEE Industry Leadership Night 📊 .
6. 2026.03 — Received the Travel Grant for attending the IEEE ACC 2026 conference ✈️🎓 !
7. 2026.02 —I have passed my Ph.D Qualification Exam! Many thanks to my committee member Fatemeh Ghoreishi, Chris Amato, Dennedy-Frank, for their valuable and constructive feedback.
8. 2026.01 — One paper is accepted by the IEEE ICRA 2026 conference🎉！
9. 2026.01 — One paper is accepted by the IEEE ACC 2026 conference (Oral Presentation) 🎉！
10. 2025.11 — Presented the paper “RGDR: Reward-Guided Domain Randomization for Autonomous Driving” at the CEE Research Expo 📢 .
11. 2025.08 — Attended the IEEE CASE 2025 conference and presented our paper “Robust Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving in Uncertain Environments” 🎤.
12. 2025.07 — One paper is accepted by the IEEE ITSC 2025 conference 🎉 !
13. 2025.06 — Received the Travel Grant for attending the IEEE CASE 2025 conference ✈️🎓 !
14. 2025.05 — One paper is accepted by the IEEE CASE 2025 conference 🎉 !
15. 2024.12 — Presented the poster “Probabilistic Adaptation for Robust Decision-Making of Autonomous Vehicles in Non-Stationary Environments” at CEE Industry Night 📊 .

🏅 Honors and Awards

• Travel Award, IEEE ACC Conference 2026, New Orleans, USA, 2026
• Travel Award, IEEE CASE Conference 2025, Los Angeles, USA, 2025
• Civil and Environmental Engineering Fellowship, Northeastern University, 2024–2025
• China National Scholarship (Top 2%), Nankai University, 2022–2023
• First-class Graduate Student Scholarship, Nankai University, 2022–2023
• Graduate Recommended Examination Exemption Scholarship, Nankai University, 2021
• China National Scholarship (<1%), China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 2019–2020
• Outstanding Student Model (School-level), China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 2018, 2019, 2020