Chien-Wen Sun
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Chaotic Systems and Signal Processing Laboratory (CSSP Lab.) at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan. My research focuses on developing cognitively-inspired AI systems with memory interpretability and consolidation capabilities for autonomous driving applications. Representative papers are highlighted below.
Chien-Wen received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Feng Chia University (FCU), Taichung, Taiwan, in 2023. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), advised by Prof. Wu and co-advised by Prof. Lin at FCU. He received the Innovation Award at the Autonomous Grand Challenge 2025 (ICCV Phase), standing out among 19+ participating teams from both industry (e.g., Nvidia, Bosch, Xiaomi) and academia. His research interests include fuzzy systems, reinforcement learning, cognitive architectures, trajectory planning, and generative AI.
Publications

🏆 Innovation Award in NVASIM v2 at ICCV 2025
@article{Sun2026TITS,
author = {Chien-Wen Sun and Chih-Wei Tseng and Yu-Chen Lin and Bing-Fei Wu},
title = {CoSMIC: A Cognitively-Inspiration System with Memory Interpretability and Consolidation for Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving},
booktitle = {Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)},
year = {2026},
}

@inproceedings{Liao2026CoDIT,
author = {Jhan-Yu Liao and Chien-Wen Sun and Yu-Chen Lin and Ting-Jia Yeh},
title = {Risk-Constrained Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Safe Decision-Making and Control in Autonomous Driving},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)},
year = {2026},
}

@inproceedings{Lin2023ITSC,
author = {Yu-Chen Lin and Chien-Wen Sun and Bo-Han Lyu and Ting-Jia Yeh},
title = {An Adaptive Semi-Active Suspension System for Design of Vehicle Stability Control System},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)},
year = {2023},
}

@article{Lin2022MDPI,
author = {Tsung-Chih Lin and Chien-Wen Sun and Yu-Chen Lin and Majid Zirkohi},
title = {Intelligent contact force regulation of pantograph--catenary based on novel type-reduction technology},
booktitle = {Electronics},
year = {2022},
}
Projects
