Publications |

My research lies at the intersection of reinforcement learning, autonomous systems, and intelligent transportation. Below are my publications in peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

Joint Pedestrian and Vehicle Traffic Optimization in Urban Environments using Reinforcement Learning

Bibek Poudel, Xuan Wang, Weizi Li, Lei Zhu, and Kevin Heaslip

IROS 2025

arXiv | Video | Demo | Code

Beacon: A Naturalistic Driving Dataset During Blackouts for Benchmarking Traffic Reconstruction and Control

Supriya Sarker, Iftekharul Islam, Bibek Poudel, and Weizi Li

IROS 2025

arXiv

VibRun: Real-time Unobtrusive Gait Analysis for Treadmill Running via Footstep Vibrations

Tianhao Wu, Yi Wu, Bibek Poudel, Syed Meerza, Rajasi Gore, Weizi Li, Zan Gao, Çağdaş Karataş, and Jian Liu

UbiComp 2025

Paper

PulseRide: A Robotic Wheelchair for Personalized Exertion Control with Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning

Azizul Zahid, Bibek Poudel, Danny Scott, Jason Scott, Scott Crouter, Weizi Li, and Sai Swaminathan

CHASE 2025

arXiv

EnduRL: Enhancing Safety, Stability, and Efficiency of Mixed Traffic Under Real-World Perturbations Via Reinforcement Learning

Bibek Poudel, Weizi Li, and Kevin Heaslip

IROS 2024

Paper | arXiv | Video | Code

AutoJoin: Efficient Adversarial Training against Gradient-Free Perturbations for Robust Maneuvering via Joint Learning

Michael Villarreal, Bibek Poudel, Ryan Wickman, Yu Shen, and Weizi Li

IROS 2024

Paper | arXiv | Video | Code

CARL: Congestion-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Imitation-based Perturbations in Mixed Traffic Control

Bibek Poudel, Shuai Li, and Weizi Li

IEEE CYBER 2024

Paper | arXiv | Code

Mixed Traffic Control and Coordination from Pixels

Michael Villarreal, Bibek Poudel, Jia Pan, and Weizi Li

ICRA 2024

Paper | arXiv | Video | Code

Can ChatGPT Enable ITS? The Case of Mixed Traffic Control via Reinforcement Learning

Michael Villarreal, Bibek Poudel, and Weizi Li

ITSC 2023

Paper | arXiv | Code

Efficient Quality-Diversity Optimization through Diverse Quality Species

Ryan Wickman, Bibek Poudel, Michael Villarreal, Xiaofei Zhang, and Weizi Li

GECCO 2023

Paper | arXiv | Code

Learning to Control DC Motor for Micromobility in Real Time with Reinforcement Learning

Bibek Poudel, Thomas Watson, and Weizi Li

ITSC 2022

Paper | arXiv | Video | Code

Black-box Adversarial Attacks on Network-wide Multi-step Traffic State Prediction Models

Bibek Poudel and Weizi Li

ITSC 2021

Paper | arXiv | Video | Code