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Jiaheng
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02Research focus

AI for ITS

Artificial intelligence for next-generation transportation systems

01SYSTEM

Agentic Mobility

A day-to-day mobility system populated by LLM-based travellers and traffic managers with distinct roles, memories, actions, and channels for interaction.

LLM agentsMATSimmobility simulation

02Intelligent Vehicle

Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

Developed the DPIU trajectory prediction framework to bridge future intentions with historical behavioral experiences, focusing on uncovering pedestrians’ implicit motion intentions.

Memory MechanismsCognitive decision-makingRNN

03Publications

1Journal Articles

0Conference Papers

0Preprints

0Book Chapters

Journal Articles

2026IEEE TNNLS

Journal article

DPIU: Dynamic Pedestrian Intention Understanding Through Cognitive Decision-Making

Jiaheng Xiao, Zhihui Li, Mingxin Wang, Yu Xie, Qin Ma, Xin Wang, and Yu Sun

A cognitive, memory-guided framework that connects future pedestrian intentions to historical experience and refines multimodal forecasts with Bayesian density estimation.

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04Academic record

Experience & Education

Research experience

2026 - present

Agentic City

UNNC · Project Lead

A day-to-day mobility system populated by LLM-based travellers and traffic managers.

2025 - 2026

Hypergraph-Guided Social Interaction Modelling

Jimei University · Project Lead

Modeled high-order pedestrian social relations with hypergraphs and state-space models.

2021 - 2024

Probabilistic Pedestrian Intention Understanding

Jilin University · Project Lead

Developed cognitive and uncertainty-aware models for robust trajectory prediction in long-tail scenarios.

Education

2026 - Present

PhD Student

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

SupervisorZhengbing He

2024

M.S. Transportation Information Engineering and Control

Jilin University

SupervisorZhaowei Qu & Zhihui Li

2020

B.Eng. Automobile Application Engineering