Weihao Sun (孙炜昊)

322 Hollister Hall,

527 College Ave,

Ithaca, NY, 14850

ws493@cornell.edu

I am a first year Ph.D. student in Systems Engineering at Cornell University, starting in Fall 2026, and a member of the IDS Lab. I am forturnate to be advised by Prof. Andreas Malikopoulos. My research interests include Reinforcement Learning, Optimal Control, and Robotics.

Previously, I completed my Master of Science degree in Systems of Engineering at Cornell University. I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics, with a minor in Data Science, from Univeristy of British Columbia.

News

Mar 12, 2026	I am pleased to announce that I will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at Cornell University under the supervision of Professor Andreas Malikopoulos!
Nov 20, 2025	I presented my our paper at IEEE ITSC 2025 in Gold coast, Australia.
Jul 01, 2025	My first paper, AI Recommendation Systems for Lane-Changing Using Adherence-Aware Reinforcement Learning, got accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2025.
May 25, 2025	I received my M.Eng. degree in Systems Engineering from Cornell University and am continuing in the same program to pursue a thesis based M.S. degree.
Mar 24, 2025	I presented our capstone project with my collaborators at CCHEq. Symposium at Weill Cornell Medicine in Manhattan, NYC.

Selected publications

AI Recommendation Systems for Lane-Changing Using Adherence-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Weihao Sun, Heeseung Bang, and Andreas A. Malikopoulos

In 28th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2025

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