Ziran Wang

4.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
101 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Ziran Wang is a scholar working on Automotive Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ziran Wang has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Automotive Engineering, 40 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ziran Wang's work include Traffic control and management (39 papers), Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (31 papers) and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) (15 papers). Ziran Wang is often cited by papers focused on Traffic control and management (39 papers), Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (31 papers) and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) (15 papers). Ziran Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Ziran Wang's co-authors include Matthew Barth, Guoyuan Wu, Kyungtae Han, Prashant Kumar Tiwari, Liangqi Yuan, Prashant Tiwari, Xishun Liao, Zhuang Hao, Xuezeng Zhao and Yunsheng Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Advanced Functional Materials and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Ziran Wang

97 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mobility Digital Twin: Concept, Architecture, Case Study, and Future Challenges

2022 188 citations Ziran Wang, Kyungtae Han et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
Federated Learning for Connected and Automated Vehicles: A Survey of Existing Approaches and Challenges

2023 89 citations Liangqi Yuan, Christopher G. Brinton et al. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles profile →
Decentralized Federated Learning: A Survey and Perspective

2024 88 citations Liangqi Yuan, Ziran Wang et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
Drive as You Speak: Enabling Human-Like Interaction with Large Language Models in Autonomous Vehicles

2024 60 citations Can Cui, Yunsheng Ma et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ziran Wang United States	29	1.3k	1.2k	674	418	370	101	3.0k
Zhaojian Li United States	28	892 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	532 0.8×	334 0.8×	525 1.4×	113	2.8k
Jiaqi Ma United States	33	1.9k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	774 1.1×	1.3k 3.0×	800 2.2×	177	4.3k
Guodong Yin China	41	3.6k 2.8×	2.4k 2.0×	1.0k 1.5×	268 0.6×	275 0.7×	344	5.0k
Wen Ding China	22	377 0.3×	619 0.5×	716 1.1×	260 0.6×	268 0.7×	87	1.9k
Tatsuya Suzuki Japan	23	829 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	589 0.9×	57 0.1×	197 0.5×	295	2.4k
Changle Li China	37	794 0.6×	557 0.4×	2.1k 3.2×	221 0.5×	367 1.0×	304	5.2k
Shichun Yang China	45	3.9k 3.0×	1.3k 1.0×	4.1k 6.1×	346 0.8×	225 0.6×	239	6.3k
Javier Gozálvez Spain	32	970 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	3.9k 5.8×	264 0.6×	379 1.0×	227	5.0k
Meng Wang China	39	3.0k 2.3×	3.9k 3.1×	678 1.0×	2.1k 4.9×	1.1k 3.0×	174	5.3k

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Hou, Xin, et al.. (2025). Selective laser melting of TiC microparticles strengthened 316 L composites for flexible mechanisms with enhanced mechanical properties. Materials Today Communications. 48. 113527–113527.

Wang, Ziran, Michael Grieves, Yonggang Wen, & Fan Xue. (2025). Special Issue on Digital Twins. IEEE Internet Computing. 29(1). 5–7. 1 indexed citations

Cui, Can, Yupeng Zhou, Sung‐Yeon Park, et al.. (2025). On-Board Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for Personalized Motion Control of Autonomous Vehicles. 20349–20356. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Chengpeng, et al.. (2025). Recyclable flexible pressure, temperature, and humidity multimodal sensors based on micro-pyramidal structures and PVA/choline chloride/ethylene glycol. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 440. 137866–137866. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Hongbo, Kun Qi, Ziran Wang, et al.. (2025). Synergistic coordination engineering and electrodes ion-attractive boost negative thermoelectric performance in hydrogel fibers for advanced wearable electronics. Chemical Engineering Journal. 526. 170879–170879.

Wang, Ziran, Ke Li, Qiao Chen, et al.. (2025). Ferroelectric-coupled MXene/BaTiO3 nanocomposite empowering flexible triboelectric nanogenerators for deep learning-enhanced human-machine health monitoring. Chemical Engineering Journal. 515. 163758–163758. 3 indexed citations

Ma, Yunsheng, Xu Cao, Wenqian Ye, et al.. (2024). Learning Autonomous Driving Tasks via Human Feedbacks with Large Language Models. 4985–4995. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Meizhen, et al.. (2024). Estimating rainfall intensity based on surveillance audio and deep-learning. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology. 22. 100450–100450. 6 indexed citations

Cao, Xu, Tong Zhou, Yunsheng Ma, et al.. (2024). MAPLM: A Real-World Large-Scale Vision-Language Benchmark for Map and Traffic Scene Understanding. 21819–21830. 16 indexed citations

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Huang, Cong, Dongliang Li, Jialin Liu, et al.. (2023). A Flexible Aptameric Graphene Field‐Effect Nanosensor Capable of Automatic Liquid Collection/Filtering for Cytokine Storm Biomarker Monitoring in Undiluted Sweat. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(9). 25 indexed citations

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Yuan, Liangqi, et al.. (2023). Federated Learning for Connected and Automated Vehicles: A Survey of Existing Approaches and Challenges. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. 9(1). 119–137. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yuan, Liangqi, Lü Su, & Ziran Wang. (2023). Federated Transfer–Ordered–Personalized Learning for Driver Monitoring Application. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(20). 18292–18301. 23 indexed citations

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Cui, Can, Yunsheng Ma, Juanwu Lu, & Ziran Wang. (2023). Radar Enlightens the Dark: Enhancing Low-Visibility Perception for Automated Vehicles with Camera-Radar Fusion. 2726–2733. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziran, Kyungtae Han, & Prashant Kumar Tiwari. (2021). Digital Twin Simulation of Connected and Automated Vehicles with the Unity Game Engine. 1–4. 61 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziran, Xishun Liao, Xuanpeng Zhao, et al.. (2020). A Digital Twin Paradigm: Vehicle-to-Cloud Based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. 1–6. 98 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziran, Guoyuan Wu, & Matthew Barth. (2019). Cooperative Eco-Driving at Signalized Intersections in a Partially Connected and Automated Vehicle Environment. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 21(5). 2029–2038. 135 indexed citations

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Wang, Meizhen, et al.. (2018). A multi-objective scheduling optimization algorithm of a camera network for directional road network coverage. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0206038–e0206038. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziran, Guoyuan Wu, & Matthew Barth. (2017). Developing a Distributed Consensus-Based Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) System. Transportation Research Board 96th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziran, Guoyuan Wu, Peng Hao, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, & Matthew Barth. (2017). Developing a platoon-wide Eco-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) system. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1256–1261. 69 indexed citations

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Hao, Peng, Ziran Wang, Guoyuan Wu, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, & Matthew Barth. (2017). Intra-platoon vehicle sequence optimization for eco-cooperative adaptive cruise control. 1–6. 21 indexed citations

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