Bo Jiang.

I am a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Xinggang Wang and Prof. Wenyu Liu. Currently, I am an intern at ByteDance Seed, working on VLA models for physical AI. I also interned at Horizon Robotics, where I was advised by Dr. Qian Zhang, and at Applied Intuition, where I worked under the guidance of Chief Scientist Dr. Wei Zhan.

My research focuses on physical intelligence: building systems that can connect perception, reasoning, and action in the physical world. I am especially interested in end-to-end driving, vision-language-action models, and video world models.

Bo Jiang in front of the Golden Gate Bridge
Six wonderful months in the Bay Area, 2026.

News

  • 2026.08 Senna was accepted by IJCV 2026.
  • 2026.05 We released LaMo, a self-supervised latent motion prior for physically realistic video generation.
  • 2026.01 VADv2 was accepted by ICLR 2026.
  • 2025.09 RAD was accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
  • 2025.02 DiffusionDrive was accepted by CVPR 2025 Highlight.
  • 2023.07 VAD was accepted by ICCV 2023.

Selected Publications

All publications
Preprint
LaMo research overview

Video World Model

LaMo: Self-Supervised Latent Motion Priors for Physical Realism in Video Generation

Bo Jiang, Depu Meng, Yihan Hu, Yichen Xie, Tianshuo Xu, Wei Zhan

arXiv preprint, 2026

Paper | Project

Learning latent motion priors through self-supervision to improve physical realism of generated videos across diverse scenarios.

ICLR 2026
VADv2 research overview

Probabilistic Planning

VADv2: End-to-End Vectorized Autonomous Driving via Probabilistic Planning

Bo Jiang*, Shaoyu Chen*, Hao Gao, Bencheng Liao, Qian Zhang, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

Paper | Project

Probabilistic planning captures driving possibilities, allowing an end-to-end policy to account for uncertainty when acting.

IJCV 2026
Senna research overview

Dual-System Driving VLA

Senna: Bridging Large Vision-Language Models and End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Bo Jiang, Shaoyu Chen, Bencheng Liao, Xingyu Zhang, Wei Yin, Qian Zhang, Chang Huang, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2026

Paper | Project | GitHub stars

A dual-system driving VLA connects vision-language reasoning with end-to-end planning, bridging decisions and actions.

ICCV 2023
VAD research overview

Vectorized Autonomous Driving

VAD: Vectorized Scene Representation for Efficient Autonomous Driving

Bo Jiang*, Shaoyu Chen*, Qing Xu, Bencheng Liao, Jiajie Chen, Hao Gao, Qian Zhang, Wenyu Liu, Chang Huang, Xinggang Wang

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

Paper | Project | GitHub stars

Vectorized scene representation toward real-time end-to-end autonomous driving.

More Publications

Education

Internships

  • ByteDance Seed

    Multimodal Interaction and World Model Research Intern

    2026.06 – Present, Beijing, China

  • Applied Intuition

    Physical AI World Model Research Intern

    2026.01 – 2026.06, Sunnyvale, CA, U.S.

  • Horizon Robotics

    Autonomous Driving Algorithm Research Intern

    2021.05 – 2026.01, Beijing, China

Honors & Awards

  • First-Class Ph.D. Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

    2023.12

  • 1st Place Winner, Google Waymo Open Dataset Challenge, Occupancy Flow Prediction Track

    2022.06

  • Outstanding Graduate, Central South University

    2021.06

Invited Talks

  • Advancing E2E-AD via Multimodal Planning, Reinforced Fine-Tuning, and Language Modality Integration

    2025.10IROS 2026 Autonomous Driving Workshop, Hangzhou, China.

  • Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning for On-Policy Autonomous Driving

    2025.04China Generative AI Conference, Beijing, China.

  • Rethinking Vision-Language-Action Models for End-to-end Autonomous Driving

    2025.01the 4th Global Autonomous Driving Summit, Beijing, China.