Department of Automatic Control, School of Automation, NJUST
Education
Ph.D., Southeast University
School of Transportation
B.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology
School of Automation
Selected research funding
National Science and Technology Major Project
Principal investigator of a subproject
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Young Scientists Fund (Category C) · Principal investigator
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province
Young Scientists Fund · Principal investigator
Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Major Project
Principal investigator of a subproject
State Grid / NARI Commissioned Research
Principal investigator · Research outsourcing for the NARI 2026 power-grid cross-embodiment intelligent model and ROS2 system fusion control project
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (AI Special), NJUST
Principal investigator · Key technologies of an embodied decision brain for industrial multi-arm robot collaboration
Academic service
Journal of Intelligent and Connected VehiclesYoung Editorial Board Member
Intelligence & RoboticsYoung Editorial Board Member
Human-Centric Intelligent SystemsYoung Editorial Board Member
Robot LearningYoung Editorial Board Member
Digital Transportation and SafetyYoung Editorial Board Member
Journal of Transportation Engineering and InformationEditorial Board Member
Selected reviewing service
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles; IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; Advanced Engineering Informatics; Neural Networks.
Honors & awards
Outstanding Graduate
Southeast University
President’s Fellowship
Southeast University
Outstanding Youth Graduate Student of the Year
Southeast University
National Scholarship for Doctoral Students
Ministry of Education of China
First Prize, Outstanding Paper
Digital Transportation and Intelligent Mobility Academic Forum
Excellent Paper Award
World Transport Convention
Selected publications
2026
ConferenceVisual perception
CARVE: Counterfactual Video Editing for Auditing and Hardening Video Detectors
Wei Zhou, Chenyiming, Xu Jinwei, Yang Zhou, Quan Gan, Li Yang
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2026).
Accepted at NeurIPS 2026; proceedings details to appear.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{c-neurips-2026-carve,
title = {{CARVE: Counterfactual Video Editing for Auditing and Hardening Video Detectors}},
author = {Wei Zhou and Chenyiming and Xu Jinwei and Yang Zhou and Quan Gan and Li Yang},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
year = {2026}
}
@article{j-rcim-2026-103375,
title = {{Closed-loop intelligent quality control for robotic welding: A survey on architecture, technologies, and system integration}},
author = {Cheng Qiu and Wei Zhou and Li Yang and Yong Peng and Kehong Wang},
journal = {Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing},
year = {2027},
volume = {103},
pages = {103375},
doi = {10.1016/j.rcim.2026.103375}
}
@article{j-aei-2026-105264,
title = {{Knowledge-guided soft-consensus learning for ambiguity-aware pavement crack inspection}},
author = {Wei Zhou and Zhenwei Zhou and Jing Lu and Li Yang},
journal = {Advanced Engineering Informatics},
year = {2027},
volume = {77},
pages = {105264},
doi = {10.1016/j.aei.2026.105264}
}
@article{3760525,
title = {{Vision Technologies with Applications in Traffic Surveillance Systems: A Holistic Survey}},
author = {Wei Zhou and Li Yang and Lei Zhao and Runyu Zhang and Yifan Cui and Hongpu Huang and Kun Qie and Chen Wang},
journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
year = {2026},
volume = {58},
number = {3},
pages = {1--47},
doi = {10.1145/3760525}
}