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Recent master's graduate Evelien Riddell, MMath student James Riddell, PhD student Gengyi Sun, research engineer Michał Antkiewicz, and Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki have won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FORGE 2026, the 3rd ACM International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering.

The WISE Lab is excited to announce that it will host the 1st Workshop on VLM4RWD: Vision Language Models: Challenges of Real-World Deployment at the NeurIPS 2025 conference in Mexico City, Mexico.

The Globe and Mail Jun 5, 2025 article about edge cases highlights the need for self-driving cars to safely handle unusual and dangerous traffic situations, well beyond the 99% currently considered as good performance. The article highlights research done at WISE Lab.

UW Moose and WISE Sim were used to create a self-driving platoon for experiments from the paper "Enhancing Safety in Mixed Traffic: Learning-Based Modeling and Efficient Control of Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles".

In collaboration with Communitech within the The Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN), WISE Lab completed the Lanelet2 mapping project. The goal of the project was to develop a method for generating Lanelet2 maps suitable for automated driving and validate the map using traffic simulations. 

We published a few seminars on our YouTube channel:

• Maximilian Kahn "Dynamic-Occlusion-Aware Risk Identification for Autonomous Vehicles Using Hypergames"
• Sunsheng Gu "XC: Exploring Quantitative Use Cases for Explanations in 3D Object Detection"

More are to come.

On March 8, 2021, prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki gave an invited lecture titled "Designing & Testing Autonomous Vehicles: What Engineers are Doing" as part of the lecture series at the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. The video is available on YouTube.

Abstract

Prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki participated in an expert panel on connected and autonomous vehicles and shared mobility organized by the Council of Canadian Academies and sponsored by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED).

The executive summary and the complete report from the panel as well as a press release are available on the CAC's website.

Our SAE World Congress Experience conference article "Modes of Automated Driving System Scenario Testing: Experience Report and Recommendations" has been selected as one of the best papers at the conference and it has been published in SAE International Journal Advances & Current Practices in Mobility under the same title.