Invited Talks / Lectures

September 15, 2026 | Aula 5, Stazione Marittima, Naples, Italy
Topic: Sky-Drive: A Distributed Multiagent Simulation Platform for Human-AI Collaborative and Socially Aware Future Transportation
Invited by: Prof. Haotian Shi
School of Civil Engineering & Transportation, South China University of Technology
April 9, 2024 | Virtual
Topic: Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving
Invited by: Prof. Ling Huang
Transportation Alliance Official Account ("交通邦")
February 25, 2024 | Virtual
Topic: Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving
June 2020 | Virtual
Topic: Location Awareness and Travel Mode Classification Method for Moving Targets

Conference Presentations

October 16, 2026 | UWM Student Union, Milwaukee, WI, US
Topic: Sky-Drive: Open-Source Simulation Platform for Human–AI Collaborative and Socially Aware Transportation
Zilin Huang presenting Sky-Drive at the 2026 Southeast Wisconsin Transportation Symposium

Presenting Sky-Drive at SWTS 2026

Zilin Huang sharing ongoing work on the Sky-Drive simulation platform

Sharing our ongoing work on Sky-Drive

May 22, 2026 | Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, US
Topic: Sim2Real-AD: A Modular Sim-to-Real Framework for Deploying Reinforcement Learning in Real-World Autonomous Driving
Zilin Huang presenting at NGTS 2026

Sim2Real-AD at NGTS 2026

Zilin Huang receiving the Best Presentation Award at NGTS 2026

NGTS 2026 Best Presentation

April 9, 2025 | Madison, WI, US
Topic: Sky-Drive: A Distributed Multi-Agent Simulation Platform for Human–AI Collaborative and Socially Aware Future Transportation
Zilin Huang presenting Sky-Drive at the 2025 AAA Safe Mobility Conference

Sky-Drive at AAA 2025

Keke Long, Zilin Huang, and Pei Li with the Sky-Drive poster at the 2025 AAA Safe Mobility Conference

Sky-Drive Poster Session

January 9, 2025 | Washington, DC, US
Topic: V2X-VLM: End-to-end V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving through Large Vision-Language Models

TRB Annual Meeting (2025)

TRB Annual Meeting (2025)

January 10, 2024 | Washington, DC, US
Topic: Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving

TRB Annual Meeting (2024)

TRB Annual Meeting (2024)

October 19, 2023 | Phoenix, Arizona, US
Topic: TFs-DGAN: Multi-View Temporal Factorizations-Based Dynamic Adaptive Generative Adversarial Networks for Hybrid Recovery of Missing Traffic Data

INFORMS Annual Meeting (2023)

INFORMS Annual Meeting (2023)

June 17, 2023 | Austin, Texas, US
Topic: Roadside Unit-Enabled Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles under GNSS-denied Environments

ICTD Conference (2023)

ICTD Conference (2023)

May 18, 2023 | West Lafayette, Indiana, US
Topic: Roadside Unit-Enabled Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles under GNSS-denied Environments

NGTS-3 Conference (2023)

NGTS-3 Conference (2023)

January 9, 2023 | Washington, DC, US
Topic: Roadside Unit-Enabled Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles under GNSS-denied Environments

TRB Annual Meeting (2023)

TRB Annual Meeting (2023)

Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting (TRB 2020)
January 2020 | Washington, DC, US
Topic: Low-Cost WiFi-Based Detection System for Traffic Monitoring and Recognition
10th National Optoelectronic Information Doctoral Academic Forum
September 2019 | Guangzhou, China
Topic: An Outdoor Pedestrian Tracking and Location Method Based on RSSI
11th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2019)
August 2019 | Guangzhou, China
Topic: Imputation Methods Used in Missing Traffic Data: A Literature Review
5th International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS 2019)
July 2019 | Liverpool, UK
Topic: A Novel WiFi-Oriented RSSI Signal Processing Method
Zilin Huang attending ICTIS 2019 in Liverpool

At ICTIS 2019 in Liverpool

Zilin Huang at the ICTIS 2019 conference venue

At the ICTIS 2019 conference venue