Yiming Yang
Shenzhen, China

Yiming Yang.

Ph.D. Candidate at CUHK-Shenzhen & FNii

I study how autonomous systems perceive road scenes, reason about lane connectivity, and model how the world evolves. My research spans lane topology reasoning, world models, and vision-language models.

I am advised by Prof. Zhen Li and Prof. Shuguang Cui, with research on autonomous driving in collaboration with T Lab, Tencent. Previously, I worked on cross-modal face recognition and person re-identification at Sun Yat-sen University with Prof. Haifeng Hu and Prof. Weipeng Hu.

Education & research visits

OCT 2026 — OCT 2027Incoming

Nanyang Technological University

Visiting Ph.D. Student · AutoMan Lab · Singapore

Host: Prof. Chen Lv

China Scholarship Council (CSC) funding

AUG 2024 — PRESENT

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer and Information Engineering

Advisors: Prof. Zhen Li & Prof. Shuguang Cui

Full scholarship

AUG 2021 — JUN 2024

Sun Yat-sen University

M.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Haifeng Hu

Ranked 1st in comprehensive evaluation

Master’s thesis
AUG 2017 — JUN 2021

Northwest A&F University

B.E. in Electronics and Information Engineering

GPA: 3.85 / 4.00 · Top 2.94%
Bachelor’s thesis

Latest updates

2026 / 2027

Serving as a reviewer for ICLR 2027, NeurIPS 2026, and AAAI 2027.

AUG 2026

CoPo is published at KDD 2026: geometry-guided representations for coherent lane and traffic topology reasoning.

JUL 2026

Passed my qualifying examination (QE) and advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.

MAY 2026

Awarded the China Scholarship Council (CSC) scholarship for my research visit to NTU.

Research demos

Scene 01 · 1 / 6 Open video

Temporal modeling

Follow how lane geometry and connectivity evolve across consecutive driving frames.

22 papers

KDD 2026Autonomous driving

Geometry-Guided Representations for Coherent Lane and Traffic Topology Reasoning in Driving Scenes

Yueru Luo, Changqing Zhou, Yiming Yang, Erlong Li, Chao Zheng, Shuguang Cui, Zhen Li

BibTeX
@inproceedings{luo2026geometry,
  title={Geometry-Guided Representations for Coherent Lane and Traffic Topology Reasoning in Driving Scenes},
  author={Luo, Yueru and Zhou, Changqing and Yang, Yiming and Li, Erlong and Zheng, Chao and Cui, Shuguang and Li, Zhen},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V. 2},
  pages={3504--3515},
  year={2026},
  doi={10.1145/3770855.3817889}
}
Download .bib
Under reviewAutonomous driving

TopoMind: Unifying Lane Topology Reasoning and Understanding on Driving Scenes

Yihuan Yao*, Yiming Yang*, Hongbin Lin, Chuang Yang, Chao Zhan, Suzhong Fu, Chao Zheng, Chen Lv, Shuguang Cui, Zhen Li

* Equal contribution

Under reviewAutonomous driving

TopoVLM: Unveiling the Power of Vision-Language Models in Lane Topology Reasoning

Yiming Yang, Chao Zhan, Yihuan Yao, Hongbin Lin, Yueru Luo, Wan lihui, Suzhong Fu, Chao Zheng, Chen Lv, Shuguang Cui, Zhen Li

Honors & awards

  • 2026
    CSC Scholarship

    Overseas research visit · Awarded May 2026

  • 2023 / 2020 / 2018
    National Scholarship
  • 2024
    Outstanding Master's Graduate

    Excellent Master's Thesis · Sun Yat-sen University

  • 2021
    Excellent Bachelor's Thesis

    Northwest A&F University

  • SPECIAL GRADE
    Guo Xie Bi Rong Scholarship

Academic service

Conference reviewer

ICLR 2026–2027NeurIPS 2025–2026AAAI 2025–2027CVPR 2026ICCV 2025ECCV 2026KDD 2026

Workshop organizer

TopoCoT · WACV 2026

Robust and Generalized Lane Topology Understanding and HD Map Generation through CoT Design

Proposal authors: Yiming Yang, Chao Zheng, Hongyang Li, Zhen Li

Journal reviewer

IEEE TNNLS · IEEE TIFS · IEEE TCSVT · Pattern Recognition · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · Digital Signal Processing

Teaching experience

CIE6020: Information Theory · Fall 2025
CIE6032: Selected Topics in Deep Learning Foundations and Their Applications · Summer 2026
Teaching Assistant · CUHK-Shenzhen

Contact

yimingyang@link.cuhk.edu.cn