Publications
Selected publications are listed below; the most up-to-date list is available on Google Scholar.
First-Author / Corresponding-Author Publications
CoInfra: A Large-Scale Cooperative Infrastructure Perception System and Dataset in Adverse Weather
M. Ning, Y. Yang, K. Shu, S. Huang, J. Zhong, M. Salehi, M. Rahmani, Y. Lu, C. Sun, E. Hashemi, and A. Khajepour.
Under review at Transportation Research Part C, 2026.
Real-World Deployment of Cloud Autonomous Mobility System Using 5G Networks for Outdoor and Indoor Environments
Y. Yang†, M. Ning†*, K. Shu†, A. Saleh, E. Hashemi, and A. Khajepour.
Under review at IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 2026.
SAP-CoPE: Social-Aware Planning using Cooperative Pose Estimation with Infrastructure Sensor Nodes
M. Ning, Y. Yang, S. Huang, J. Zhong, K. Shu, C. Sun, E. Hashemi, and A. Khajepour.
Revised manuscript under review at IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2026.
A Novel Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Using Point Cloud Based Potential Field
M. Ning, A. Khajepour, E. Hashemi, and C. Sun.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024.
An Efficient Approach to Generate Safe Drivable Space by LiDAR-Camera-HD Map Fusion
M. Ning, A. R. Alghooneh, C. Sun, R. Zhang, P. Panahandeh, S. Tuer, E. Hashemi, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024.
Enhancing Indoor Mobility with Connected Sensor Nodes: A Real-Time, Delay-Aware Cooperative Perception Approach
M. Ning, Y. Cui, Y. Yang, S. Huang, Z. Liu, A. R. Alghooneh, E. Hashemi, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024.
Decision Making in Urban Traffic: A Game Theoretic Approach for Autonomous Vehicles Adhering to Traffic Rules
K. Shu, M. Ning*, A. R. Alghooneh, S. Li, M. Pirani, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2025.
REAL-SAP: Real-Time Evidence Aware Liable Safety Assessment for Perception in Autonomous Driving
C. Sun, M. Ning*, Z. Deng, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024.
An Efficient Model for Driving Focus of Attention Prediction Using Deep Learning
M. Ning, C. Lu, and J. Gong.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2019.
Other Selected Publications
EAV-DETR: Efficient Arbitrary-View oriented object detection with probabilistic guarantees for UAV imagery
H. Zuo, M. Ning, Y. Shu, S. Huang, and C. Sun.
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2026.
WATonoBus: Field-tested all-weather autonomous shuttle technology
N. P. Bhatt, R. Zhang, M. Ning, A. R. Alghooneh, C. Sun, P. Panahandeh, and others.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024.
Intelligent mobility system with integrated motion planning and control utilizing infrastructure sensor nodes
Y. Yang, M. Ning, S. Huang, E. Hashemi, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024.
DriveSOTIF: Advancing SOTIF through multimodal large language models
S. Huang, F. Shi, C. Sun, J. Zhong, M. Ning, Y. Yang, Y. Lu, H. Wang, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025.
Game-theory in practice: Application to motion planning and decision making in an autonomous shuttle bus
K. Shu, A. R. Alghooneh, M. Ning, S. Li, M. Pirani, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024.
Cascaded safety analysis and test scenario generation techniques for autonomous driving: A case study with WATonoBus
C. Sun, R. Zhang, A. R. Alghooneh, M. Ning, P. Panahandeh, S. Tuer, and A. Khajepour.
Automotive Innovation, 2025.
Extending operational design domain for perception systems through robust learning
C. Sun, Y. Cui, M. Ning, Y. Lu, D. Cao, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024.
Quantifying learning algorithm uncertainties in autonomous driving systems: Enhancing safety through Polynomial Chaos Expansion and High Definition maps
R. Zhang, C. Sun, M. Ning, R. Valiollahimehrizi, Y. Lu, K. Czarnecki, and A. Khajepour.
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2025.
Object reconstruction and localization in indoor environments using infrastructure sensor node
S. Dasgupta, V. N. Devarakonda, Y. Cao, M. Ning, N. P. Bhatt, Y. Yang, and A. Khajepour.
IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024.
Integrating uncertainty propagation models in autonomous vehicle perception with machine learning components
C. Sun, R. Zhang, A. R. Alghooneh, M. Ning, Z. Deng, and A. Khajepour.
SSRN, 2024.
Earlier Work
Task-attentive LiDAR Filter: Adaptive ROI and Semantic-based Ground Segmentation
Y. Cui, M. Ning, W. Li, D. Cao, and A. Khajepour.
CAA International Conference on Vehicular Control and Intelligence, 2022.
Mandatory lane-changing decision-making in dense traffic for autonomous vehicles based on deep reinforcement learning
Y. Gu, K. Yuan, S. Yang, M. Ning, and Y. Huang.
CAA International Conference on Vehicular Control and Intelligence, 2022.