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Yang Zhao

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Yang Zhao is a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) and the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. He is a recipient of the Amazon AI PhD Fellowship. His research focuses on developing human–LLM copilots for decision-making, with emphasis on enhancing the trustworthiness and interpretability of LLMs, strengthening domain-specific reasoning capabilities, and improving the efficiency and reliability of decision support systems.

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Hao (Frank) Yang

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Can LLM Agents Drive Like Human Beings Benchmarks Feature Attributions Interpretations and Insights

Can LLM Agents Drive Like Human Beings? Benchmarks, Feature Attributions, Interpretations and Insights

As robot taxi increasingly share roads with human drivers, creating human-like driving agents has emerged as a promising approach for seamless integration into mixed-autonomy environments. Achieving effective vehicle human interaction […]

Generative AI for Traffic Planning

Generative AI for Traffic Planning

Transportation planning plays a vital role in developing efficient and sustainable transportation systems to meet the evolving needs of communities. As technology advances, the field of transportation planning could benefit […]

Trustworthy LLM for Traffic Forecasting

Trustworthy LLM for Traffic Forecasting

Trustworthy LLM for traffic forecasting, advances explainable deep and generative models that fuse multimodal sensing with traffic theory to forecast congestion and freight bottlenecks in real time, laying the groundwork […]

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The Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) is a research collective housed within the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

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