I am currently working on knowledge platform development and agentic systems to advance intelligent system design. If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at wangding@pjlab.org.cn or wangding.mellissa@gmail.com . We are hiring interns! Please feel free to hit me up with your CV if interested.

I received my Ph.D. from New York University, where I focused on large-scale multi-agent simulations for mobility in smart cities. Prior to that, I obtained both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Transportation Engineering and Planning from Beijing Jiaotong University.

My research interests include the development of knowledge platforms and knowledge graphs (KG), artificial intelligence (AI), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic systems, with a particular focus on designing intelligent systems. I have published 20+ papers at top journals and international conferences. Google Scholar

📖 Educations

  • 2017.09 - 2022.01, PhD, New York University, NYC, US.
  • 2015.09 - 2017.07, Master, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
  • 2011.09 - 2015.07, Undergraduate, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.

🔥 News

  • 2025.07: 🎉 HMRAG is accepted at ACM MM 2025!
  • 2025.07: 🎉 Valik is accepted at ICCV 2025. See you in Hawaii!
  • 2024.06: We released TransWorldNG, a powerful multi-agent framework for mobility simulation TransWorldNG.
  • 2023.09: 🎉 Serval papers are accepted to ITSC 2023. See you in Bilbao,Spain!
  • 2022.03: I join Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a researcher in Shanghai!
  • 2021.10: Check out our multi-agent simulation test bed developed for New York City MATSim-NYC.

📝 Selected Publications

ICCV 2025
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VaLiK: Vision-and-Language Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Models
J Liu, S Meng, Y Gao, S Mao, P Cai, G Yan, Y Chen, Z Bian, B Shi, Ding Wang*

Project

ACM MM 2025
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HM-RAG: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation
Pei Liu, Xin Liu, Ruoyu Yao, Junming Liu, Siyuan Meng,Ding Wang, Jun Ma.

Project

TR Part A: Policy and Practice 2021
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Mobility in Post-Pandemic Economic Reopening under Social Distancing Guidelines: Congestion, Emissions, and Contact Exposure in Public Transit
Ding Wang, Mohammad Tayarani, Brian Yueshuai He, Jingqin Gao, Joseph YJ Chow, Oliver Huaizhu Gao, Kaan Ozbay.

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🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2023: Shanghai High-Level Overseas Talents Program
  • 2021: Most Cited Article of the Year, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology
  • 2017: NYU SoE Fellowship
  • 2015: Excellent Paper & Project Awards, BJTU

💬 Invited Talks

  • 2021.01, “COVID-19 and Future Mobility for New York City Transit”, 100th Annual Transportation Research Board Conference. Lectern Session.
  • 2021.06, “Mobility in Post-Pandemic Economic Reopening under Social Distancing Guidelines: Congestion, Emissions, and Contact Exposure in Public Transit”, ITS-NY Webinar - Emerging Trends. NY.
  • 2020.10, “Impact of COVID-19 Behavioral Inertia on Reopening Strategies for New York City Transit”, Transportation in COVID-19 workshop by Tongji University and C2SMARTER.
  • 2020.12, “Impact of COVID-19 Behavioral Inertia on Reopening Strategies for New York City Transit”, Delft University of Technology TRAIL Seminar.

📚 Teaching Experience

  • Simulation Tutorial for Dr. Kaan Ozbay, Data-driven Mobility Modeling and Simulation, Spring 2019
  • Guest Talk for Dr. Zhibin Chen, Simulation of Traffic, Fall 2022
  • Teaching Assistant for Dr. Wenxin Qiao, Traffic Design, Fall 2016
  • Teaching Assistant for Dr. Wenxin Qiao, Introduction to Traffic Engineering, Spring 2016

🛠 Services

Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Transportation Research Record, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems,etc.

Community Services: Member of Women in Transportation of NYC, Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member of Transportation Research Board (TRB), Member of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Member of The Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA).

Conference Organization:

  • Organized the Transportation in COVID-19 workshop by Tongji University and NYU C2SMARTER in October 2020
  • Organized a workshop on Transportation 5.0 at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems in September 2023
  • Organized workshops on ethical guidelines and consensus for ensuring the trustworthiness of AI, a series of workshops from 2023 to 2024