Yixiao Chen

Yixiao Chen

Perception Engineer

About

I am a Perception Engineer at Motional, contributing to the mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.

Previously, I worked on efficient AI and large model deployment at EmbodyX and Northeastern University, and on VisionPro software at Cognex.

I received my M.S. from Northeastern University and my B.E. from Beijing University of Technology.

Experience | More Details >

  • Perception Engineer, Motional 07/2026 – Present
  • Research Assistant, Northeastern University 05/2024 – 06/2026 · Boston, MA
  • Machine Learning Engineer, EmbodyX Inc. & AIbao LLC 05/2024 – 06/2026 · Boston, MA & San Mateo, CA
  • Software Engineering Co-op, Cognex Corporation 01/2023 – 08/2023 · Natick, MA

Education

  • M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University 09/2021 – 12/2023 · Boston, MA
  • B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology 09/2017 – 05/2021 · Beijing, China

📝 Selected Publications | See All Publications > | * Equal contribution   † Corresponding author

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ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Arash Akbari†, Arman Akbari, Masih Eskandar, Qitao Tan, Yixiao Chen, Jingwu Luo, Bertha Pangaribuan, Liyun Zhang, Jennifer Dy, Geng Yuan, Xue Lin, Gaowen Liu, Stratis Ioannidis, Yanzhi Wang

NeurIPS 2026  |  Paper

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Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving: A Unified View

Ruining Yang*, Muxing Wang*, Yixiao Chen, Tongfei Guo, Yi Xu, Can Cui, Zichong Yang, Yitian Zhang, Ziran Wang, Yun Fu, Lili Su

🏆 Best Paper Award, ECCV 2026 DriveX Workshop

ECCV 2026 Workshop  |  Paper  | Code Stars

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Effective MoE-based LLM Compression by Exploiting Heterogeneous Inter-Group Experts Routing Frequency and Information Density

Zhendong Mi, Yixiao Chen, Pu Zhao, Xiaodong Yu, Hao Wang, Yanzhi Wang, Shaoyi Huang†

ICML 2026  |  Paper

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Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models

Arman Akbari†, Ci Zhang, Arash Akbari, Lin Zhao, Yixiao Chen, Weiwei Chen, Xuan Zhang, Geng Yuan, Yanzhi Wang

arXiv  |  Paper  |  Project

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Collaborative Compression for Large-Scale MoE Deployment on Edge

Yixiao Chen, Yanyue Xie, Ruining Yang, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Yong He, Yue Chen, Pu Zhao†, Yanzhi Wang

ICASSP 2026  |  Paper

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From Static to Dynamic: a Survey of Topology-Aware Perception in Autonomous Driving

Yixiao Chen*, Ruining Yang*, Xin Chen, Jia He, Dongliang Xu†, Yue Yao†

ICCV 2025 WDFM-AD  |  Paper