Yongcai Wang is a Professor and Ph.D. advisor in the Department of Computer Science, Renmin University of China. He serves as Deputy Chair of the Computer Science Department and Director of the Research and Discipline Construction Committee at the School of Information. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. His research spans multi-agent systems, computer vision, Spatial AI, collaborative perception, and multi-agent reinforcement learning, with 120+ publications in leading journals and conferences, including 70+ CCF Class-A/B papers. His work has been applied to intelligent vehicles, unmanned vessels, and visual object detection and localization.
More on projects, awards & academic service
He has led multiple National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, sub-projects under national S&T support programs, and industry collaborations. Awards include a First Prize for Technical Invention from the China Institute of Navigation (2021) for maritime target localization, a Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress (2022), a Ministry of Transport Major Innovation Achievement award, and a Third Prize in Petroleum and Chemical Automation Science and Technology (2026).
He serves as an executive member of CCF technical committees on intelligent robots and IoT, an executive member of the DEDS committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, SIGBED China, and CAAI committees on cognition and information processing; as a PC member for CIKM 2025, WWW 2025, AAAI 2026, and others; and on the editorial boards of Computer Science and Technology and the International Journal of Robotics and Automation Technology.
Education & Experience
Research Areas
Prospective Students
Student types:research-track undergraduates, academic/professional master's students, direct-entry Ph.D., general Ph.D., and engineering Ph.D. candidates
Requirements:Strong learning ability; proficient English; solid programming skills; self-driven; keen interest in the areas above; able to think independently.
Preferred:Candidates with publications, submissions, or major competition awards are especially welcome.
Contact:Please send your CV or a brief self-introduction to ycw@ruc.edu.cn.
News
- 2026.05.01ICML+1，Congratulations to Guoxin Lian 🎉
- 2026.03.22TVCG+1, Congratulations to Xudong Cai 🎉
- 2026.02.21CVPR2026+2, Congratulations to Peng Wang and Shuo Wang 🎉
- 2026.01.31ICRA2026+2, Congratulations to Shuai Liu and Kang Yang 🎉
- 2025.11.08AAAI 2026+2, Congratulations to Xudong Cai and Shuo Wang 🎉
- 2025.09.19NeurIPS 2025+2, Congratulations to Xuewei Bai and Shuo Wang 🎉
- 2025.06.26ICCV2025+1, Congratulations to Peng Wang 🎉
- 2025.06.25TOSN+1，Congratulations to Xuewei 🎉
- 2025.04.23ICMR+1，Congratulations to Yance 🎉
- 2025.02.26CVPR2025+2, Congratulations to Hongyu and Shuo 🎉
▼ Earlier news
⏱2025.04.09. ADVEI+1，Congratulations to Zhe Huang 🎉
⏱2025.01.28. ICRA2025 +1, Congratulations to Kang 🎉
⏱2025.01.20. WWW2025 +1, Congratulations to Xiaowei 🎉
⏱2024.11.28. TVCG +1, Congratulations to Hualong 🎉
⏱2024.11.8. Hongyu Sun and Haoyu Liu win National Scholarship 🎉
⏱2024.09.26. NeurIPS 2024 +1, Congratulations to Hongyu 🎉
⏱2024.08.02. SIGMOD 2025 +1, Congratulations to Xiaojia and Haoyu 🎉
⏱2024.07.26. ACM Multimedia 2024 +3, Congratulations to Zhe Huang, Shuo Wang, and Xudong 🎉
⏱2024.07.26. RoCo: Robust Cooperative Perception accepted as ACM Multimedia 2024 Oral (3.97%)，Congratulations to Zhe Huang 🎉
⏱2024.05.06. TVCG +1, Congratulations to Hualong 🎉
⏱2024.03.20. TVCG +1, Congratulations to Hongyu 🎉
⏱2024.02.05. TON+1, Congratulations to Haodi 🎉
⏱2024.01.29. ICRA2024 +1, Congratulations to Hongyu 🎉
⏱2024.01.29. ICRA2024 +1, Congratulations to Wang Peng 🎉
⏱2024.01.29. ICRA2024 +1, Congratulations to Xudong 🎉
⏱2023.12.08. ICDE2024 +1, Congratulations to Haoyu 🎉
⏱2023.06.21. TOSN+1, Congratulations to Xuewei 🎉
⏱2023.06.11. TON+1, Congratulations to Qinhan 🎉
Recent Talks
Teaching
Selected Publications
Red labels indicate CCF Class A Blue labels indicate CCF Class B
Research Projects
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2026—2027
Road Defect Detection and 3D Measurement
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2025—2026
Omni-Perception Algorithms in Complex Environments
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2025
Data–Model-Driven Task Planning and Optimization
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2025
Intelligent Algorithms for Energy Systems
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2023—2025
Robustness Testing for UAV Swarm Digital Twins
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2022—2023
Localization and Perception for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Scenes
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2023
High-Precision Point-Cloud Mapping and Visual Localization
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2022—2023
Vision-Based Airport Bird Detection
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2020—2023
Modular Crowdsourced SLAM: Key Problems
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2019—2022
Assisted Navigation for Unmanned Smart Vessels
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2017—2020
Tightly Coupled Multi-Sensor SLAM Fusion
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2016
National S&T Support Program Sub-Project
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2013—2015
Sparse Sensor Networks for Appliance State Tracking
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2013—2014
Large-Scale Wireless Localization via Ordinal Optimization
Academic Service
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Editor
- Computer Science and Technology
- International Journal of Robotics and Automation Technology
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PC
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025)
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Co-Chair
AIAT 2024 TPC co-chair; Proceedings of AIAT 2024 associate editor
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Forum
VALSE 2023 Embodied Intelligence Forum, forum chair
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Publicity
ValueTools 2021, Publicity Chair
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Guest Ed.
Sensors (CCF C), Guest Editor
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Conf. Role
CASE 2016 & 2017, Session Chair; CWSN 2011, Demo Session Chair; CWSN 2013 & IThings 2013 PC member
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Reviewer
CVPR, WWW, NeurIPS, ICML, MM, and other CCF Class-A venues; TON, TMC, and other CCF Class-A journals
Professional Societies
- CCF Technical Committee on Intelligent Robotics (member)
- CCF Technical Committee on IoT (executive member)
- CAA DEDS Technical Committee (member)
- CAAI Youth Working Committee (member)
- CAAI Cognitive Systems and Information Processing TC (member)
- CAAI Intelligent Information Networks TC (member)
- Youth Committee — Intelligent Unmanned Transportation TC (member)