Weisong Wen (Member, IEEE) received a BEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from Beijing Information Science and Technology University (BISTU), Beijing, China, in 2015, and an MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from the China Agricultural University, in 2017. After that, he received a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), in 2020. He was also a visiting PhD student with the Faculty of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in 2018. Before joining PolyU as an Assistant Professor in 2023, he was a Research Assistant Professor at AAE of PolyU since 2021, when he founded the TAS Lab. He has published 129 papers (70 journal papers, 51 in JCR Q1; 59 conference papers at venues such as ICRA, IROS, ITSC and ION GNSS+), with 3,800+ Google Scholar citations (h-index 31). He has led 35 research projects as PI with government and industry partners, tackling trustworthy perception for drones in urban low-altitude airspace, safe end-to-end driving for logistics vehicles, and robust AI navigation for legged and humanoid robots. He was ranked among the World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientists (Stanford/Elsevier) in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and received the Natural Science First Prize of the China Simulation Federation (2026), the PolyU Faculty of Engineering Merit Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher (2026), the innovation award from TechConnect 2021, and the Best Presentation Award from the Institute of Navigation (ION) in 2020. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. His 3D LiDAR-aided GNSS positioning method has been reported by Inside GNSS, is protected by patents granted in the US, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Canada, and has attracted industry recognition with remarkable knowledge transfer.
Research Areas Autonomous Driving; Robotics, Mapping, and Localization; Sensor Fusion; GNSS; SLAM