Alexandre Bayen
Professor
Studies traffic flow modeling and control with autonomous vehicles, including reinforcement learning for mixed-autonomy traffic.
Alexandre Bayen's lab at UC Berkeley works on autonomous vehicles & drones, planning, control & multi-robot systems and reinforcement learning. 34 papers since 2023, 2 at top venues, mostly JFR and PNAS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 6%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 11 papers2025 · T1 0
- 11 papers2024 · T1 1
- 12 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: JFR, PNAS, RA-L, T-RO
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- traffic17 papers
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems12 papers
- Reinforcement learning10 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones7 papers
- flow4 papers
Paper list
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202511 papers
- International Conference on Neuro-symbolic Systems (NeuS), Philadelphia PA USA, .A Tutorial on Neural Network Based Solvers for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning and Applications to Traffic Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 10(1), Jan.Car-Following Models: A Multidisciplinary Review (opens in a new tab)
- 45(1), Feb.Designing, Simulating, and Performing the 100-AV Field Test for the CIRCLES Consortium: Methodology and Implementation of the Largest Mobile Traffic Control Experiment to Date (opens in a new tab)
- The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Irvine CA USA, .Enabling Analysis and Visualization of Transportation Big Data (opens in a new tab)
- 45(1), Feb.Hierarchical Speed Planner for Automated Vehicles: A Framework for Lagrangian Variable Speed Limit in Mixed-Autonomy Traffic (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), Irvine CA USA, .Human In The Loop Classification of Adaptive Cruise Control at a Freeway Scale (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous SystemsModeling, Monitoring, and Controlling Road Traffic Using Vehicles to Sense and Act (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro Brazil, .Position and Speed Estimation Using Deep Learning Based KKL Observer in Mixed Autonomy Traffic Systems
- 45(1), Feb.Reinforcement Learning Based Oscillation Dampening: Scaling Up Single-Agent RL Algorithms to a 100-AV Highway Field Operational Test (opens in a new tab)
- 45(1), Feb.Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs): An Open-Road Field Experiment with 100 CAVs (opens in a new tab)
- 45(1), Feb.Traffic Smoothing Using Explicit Local Controllers: Experimental Evidence for Dissipating Stop-and-Go Waves with a Single Automated Vehicle in Dense Traffic (opens in a new tab)
202411 papers
- American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 14(4), Dec.Analysis of Ring Road Stability Based on String Stability of Car-Following Models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 21(2), Apr.Composing MPC With LQR and Neural Network for Amortized Efficiency and Stable Control (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Computational Physics, 511, Aug.Deep Learning of First-Order Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Law Solvers [Research Gate] (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers (opens in a new tab)
- Data Science and Transportation, 6(12), June , doi: 10.1007/s42421-024-00099-w.Impact of Navigation Apps on Congestion and Spread Dynamics on a Transportation Network (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan Italy, Dec. .Improving Social Cost in Traffic Routing with Bounded Regret via Second Best Tolls (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 25(3), Mar.Interpretable Machine Learning in Multi-Objective Transportation System Optimization: A Study of Cordon- and Mileage-Based Congestion Pricing [Research Gate] (opens in a new tab)
- Transportation Research Part C, 168, Nov.Kernel-based Planning and Imitation Learning Control for Flow Smoothing in Mixed Autonomy Traffic (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LModifying Adaptive Cruise Control Systems for String Stable Stop-and-Go Wave Control (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Edmonton Canada, .Scalable Learning of Segment Level Traffic Congestion Functions (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa HI USA, Jan. .So You Think You Can Track? (opens in a new tab)
202312 papers
- TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Jan. .A Feedback Control Strategy for Traffic Flow Harmonization in Mixed Traffic Environments (opens in a new tab)
- Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 18(4), Nov.A Proof of Kirchhoff’s First Law for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Networks (opens in a new tab)
- Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week, New York NY USA, .Approaches for Synthesis and Deployment of Controller Models on Automated Vehicles for Car Following in Mixed Autonomy (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Anchorage AK USA, .Cooperative Driving for Speed Harmonization in Mixed Traffic Environments (opens in a new tab)
- TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Jan. .Creating, Calibrating, and Validating Large-Scale Microscopic Traffic Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, .Credit Based Congestion Pricing Equilibrium Properties and Optimal Scheme Design (opens in a new tab)
- JFRLongitudinal Deep Truck: Deep Longitudinal Model with Application to Sim2Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Heavy-Duty Truck Control in the Field [Research Gate] (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, .Optimal Control of Autonomous Vehicles for Flow Smoothing in Mixed Autonomy Traffic (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 7(2), Apr.Optimizing Mixed Autonomy Traffic Flow With Decentralized Autonomous Vehicles and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), New York NY USA, .Parameter Estimation for Decoding Sensor Signals (opens in a new tab)
- PNAS (T1)Public–Private Partnerships in Fostering Outer Space Innovations (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao Spain, .Traffic Smoothing Controllers for Autonomous Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Real World Trajectory Data (opens in a new tab)
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