Hi, I am a master student in Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. Aditionally, I work as an intern at Xiaomi-EV.

My research interest includes end-to-end autonomous driving, world models and reinforcement learning.

📝 Publications

• Qimao Chen $^$**, Fang Li $^$, Shaoqing Xu $^*$, Zhiyi Lai, Zixun Xie, Yuechen Luo, Shengyin Jiang, Hanbing Li, Long Chen, Bing Wang, Yi Zhang, Zhi-Xin Yang, **VILTA: A VLM-in-the-Loop Adversary for Enhancing Driving Policy Robustness, AAAI 2026.

• Haoyi Niu $^*$, Qimao Chen $^*$, Tenglong Liu, Jianxiong Li, Guyue Zhou, Yi Zhang, Jianming Hu, Xianyuan Zhan, xTED: Cross-Domain Adaptation via Diffusion-Based Trajectory Editing, AAMAS 2026.

Preprints and Codebases

• Yuechen Luo, Fang Li, Shaoqing Xu, Zhiyi Lai, Lei Yang, Qimao Chen, Ziang Luo, Zixun Xie, Shengyin Jiang, Jiaxin Liu, Long Chen, Bing Wang, Zhi-xin Yang , AdaThinkDrive: Adaptive Thinking via Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving, arxiv 2025.

• Haoyi Niu $^*$, Qimao Chen $^*$, Yingyue Li and Jianming Hu, Stackelberg Autonomous-Background Vehicle Modeling for Continual Policy Improvement, NeurIPS 2023 Symposium on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving & Agent Learning in Open-Endedness Workshop.

📖 Educations

• 2024.09 - present, Master Student, Department of Automation, Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, China.
• 2020.09 - 2024.07, Undergraduate, Department of Automation, Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, China.