Tong Nie

Education

Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong SAR · Dual Ph.D. program.

Sep. 2024 - Present

Ph.D. in Traffic Engineering, Tongji University

Shanghai, China · College of Transportation Engineering.

Sep. 2022 - Present

B.S. in Civil Engineering, Tongji University

Shanghai, China · GPA 4.84/5.00; ranked 1/21.

Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022

From Attacks to Curricula: Learnability-Guided Adversarial Training for Safe Autonomous Driving. arXiv preprint, 2026; Co-first author.
EvoDrive: Pareto Evolution for Safety-Critical Autonomous Driving via Self-Improving LLM Agents. arXiv preprint, 2026; First author.
ADV-0: Closed-Loop Min-Max Adversarial Training for Long-Tail Robustness in Autonomous Driving. arXiv preprint, 2026; First author.
Steerable Adversarial Scenario Generation through Test-Time Preference Alignment. ICLR 2026; First author.
Collaborative Imputation of Urban Time Series through Cross-City Meta-Learning. IEEE TKDE, 2026; First author.
Exploring the Roles of Large Language Models in Reshaping Transportation Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Transportation, 2025; First author.
LLM-empowered Joint Estimation and Prediction of City-wide Delivery Demand. Transportation Research Part E, 2025; First author.
Geolocation Representation from Large Language Models are Generic Enhancers for Spatio-Temporal Learning. AAAI 2025; Co-author.
ImputeFormer: Low Rankness-Induced Transformers for Generalizable Spatiotemporal Imputation. KDD 2024 Oral; First author.
Spatiotemporal Implicit Neural Representation as a Generalized Traffic Data Learner. Transportation Research Part C, 2024; First author.
Channel-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation in Time Series Forecasting. CIKM 2024; First author.

PolyU Best Research Postgraduate Student of the Year Award

Apr. 2025

National Scholarship for Ph.D. Students

Oct. 2025

PolyU Presidential PhD Fellowship Scheme

Jan. 2024

YAN Kefei Transportation Development Fund Merit Scholarship

2023

Outstanding Doctoral Freshman Scholarship of Tongji University

2022

Shanghai Outstanding Graduate

2022

China Harbour Scholarship

2021

Honorable Mention, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling

2021

Saint-Gobain Scholarship Grand Prize

2020

Program Committee member, AAAI 2026 Main Track, AI Alignment Track, and Demo Track.
Invited Session Co-Chair, "Innovative Applications of Large Language Models in Multimodal Transportation Systems", IEEE ITSC 2025.
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Teaching Assistant, Urban Transport Planning - Theory and Practice, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2024-2025.
Student Helper, Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Conference, 2024.
Student Member, IEEE and AAAI.

Steerable Adversarial Scenario Generation through Test-Time Preference Alignment. Conference Presentation, ICLR 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2026.
Exploring the Roles of LLMs in Transportation Systems. Invited Talk, TRZ Youth Forum, Online, Apr. 2025.
Collaborative Time Series Imputation through Cross-city Meta Learning. Poster Presentation, ICLR 2025, Singapore, Apr. 2025.
LLM-empowered Joint Estimation and Prediction of City-wide Delivery Demand. Poster Presentation, 104th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Jan. 2025.
Spatiotemporal Implicit Neural Representation as a Generalized Traffic Data Learner. Poster Presentation, HKSTS 2024, Hong Kong SAR, Dec. 2024.
Channel-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation in Time Series Forecasting. Poster Presentation, CIKM 2024, Boise, USA, Oct. 2024.
ImputeFormer. Oral Presentation, KDD 2024, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2024.