Dr. Ehsan Javanmardi received his M.E. degree in computer architecture from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, in 2012, and a Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2018. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Visiting Research Student at The University of Tokyo. He was also a Visiting Student Researcher with the University of California, Berkeley, from 2016 to 2017. He also completed the Graduate Program for Social ICT Global Creative Leaders with The University of Tokyo in 2018. He has been a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, since 2018. He is currently a project assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include intelligent vehicles, autonomous vehicles’ self-localization, mobile mapping systems, ADAS maps, mapping, sensor fusion, and vehicle perception. He was a recipient of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Best Student Paper Award in 2017.
Publications (77)
Workshop / WiPSharing Positions over Commodity Cellular: A Preliminary Field Study on an Autonomous Racing Kart Testbed
Yu Asabe, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada, Hiroshi Esaki — 2027 IEEE 24th Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Work in Progress (WiP), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2027
Int'l conferenceCARE: Camera-Residual Reserves for First Sightings in Adaptive LiDAR Sensing
Jiachen Gong, Yun Li, Ehsan Javanmardi, Wencan Mao, Manabu Tsukada — The 18th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2026), Osaka, Japan, 2026
Int'l conferenceDispatchRAG: Grounding Emergency Dispatch Decisions in Real-World Protocols from Traffic Accident Video
Muhammad Sulthan Adhipradhana, Ehsan Javanmardi, Naren Bao, Manabu Tsukada — 2026 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2026), Bangkok, Thailand, 2026
Int'l conferenceTo Route or to Adapt? Multi-Expert Diffusion Planners in Unseen Regions
PosterNL2TL-Tree: Natural Language to Nested Temporal-Logic Trees for Robustness-Guided Flow-Matching Planning
Jiachen Gong, Wencan Mao, Ehsan Javanmardi, Yun Li, Quanxi Zhou, Manabu Tsukada — Companion of the 2026 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2026 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC '26), Poster, Shanghai, China, 2026
JournalCausal Scene Narration: Inference-Time Text Restructuring for Vision-Language-Action Driving
Yun Li, Yidu Zhang, Simon Thompson, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2026
Int'l conferenceCollaborative Semantic Occupancy Prediction with Probabilistic Gaussian
SIBING YANG, Kimihiko Nakano, Manabu Tsukada, Wei WANG, Ehsan Javanmardi — The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2026), Naples, Italy, 2026
Int'l conferenceAn Open-Source Modular Benchmark for Diffusion-Based Motion Planning in Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
Yun Li, Simon Thompson, Yidu Zhang, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2026), Naples, Italy, 2026
Vishal Chauhan, Anubhav Anubhav, Chia Ming Chang, Ehsan Javanmardi, Takeo Igarashi, Alex Orsholits, Kantaro Fujiwara, Manabu Tsukada — 28th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2026), Montreal, Canada, 2026
Workshop / WiPLearning Diffusion Planners from World Feedback: A No-Go Result on Bit-Exact Safety Rewards and an ODD-Adaptive Shared/Expert Decomposition
Yun Li, Ehsan Javanmardi, Yidu Zhang, Simon Thompson, Qunli Zhang, Zifan Zeng, Shiming Liu, Peng Wang, Zixuan Guo, Manabu Tsukada — Workshop on Reinforcement Learning from World Feedback (RLxF) at Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), Seoul, South Korea, 2026
JournalExploring LLMs for Generating Communicational Actions of External Interfaces on Autonomous Vehicles
Xinyue Gui, Ding Xia, Mark Colley, Stela Hanbyeol Seo, Chia-Ming Chang, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada, Takeo Igarashi — Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Presented at ACM UbiComp / ISWC, New York, NY, USA, 2026
Int'l conferenceAligning What Matters: Object-Centric and Structure-Aware Feature Alignment for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
Int'l conferencePatch Exploration-Based Route Planning for Autonomous Vehicles
Huan Meng, Jinhui Zhang, Xiaobing Huang, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — 28th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2025), Gold Coast, Australia, 2025
Int'l conferenceMulti-PrefDrive: Optimizing Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving Through Multi-Preference Tuning
Yun Li, Ehsan Javanmardi, Simon Thompson, Kai Katsumata, Alex Orsholits, Manabu Tsukada — 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, 2025
Int'l conferenceYou Share Beliefs, I Adapt: Progressive Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
Hao Si, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2025), Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2025
Int'l conferenceState-Guided Spatial Cross-Attention for Enhanced End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Talk / otherFrom Lab to Road: Advances and Challenges in V2X Cooperative Perception for AVs
Ehsan Javanmardi — Keynote talk at 14th Workshop and Industry Panel on Cooperative Automated Driving and Future Mobility Systems at IEEE IV2025, Cluj - Napoca, Romania, 2025
JournalFederated Learning for Secure and Efficient Vehicular Communications in Open RAN
Muhammad Asad, Saima Shaukat, Jin Nakazato, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — Cluster Computing, 2025
Int'l conferenceA Rule-Compliance Path Planner for Lane-Merge Scenarios Based on Responsibility-Sensitive Safety
Pengfei Lin, Ehsan Javanmardi, Yuze Jiang, Manabu Tsukada — 2024 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Dubai, UAE, 2024
Int'l conferenceConnected Shared Spaces: Expert Insights into the Impact of eHMI and SPIU for Next-Generation Pedestrian-AV Communication
Vishal Chauhan, Anubhav Anubhav, Chia-Ming Chang, Jin Nakazato, Ehsan Javanmardi, Alex Orsholits, Takeo Igarashi, Kantaro Fujiwara, Manabu Tsukada — International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA2024), Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Int'l conferenceGeographic-Aware Network Analysis and Visualization System for CAVs
Koichi Kambara, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Shunya Yamada, Hiroaki Takada, Yousuke Watanabe, Kenya Sato, Manabu Tsukada — International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA2024), Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Int'l conferenceNeural Error Covariance Estimation for Precise LIDAR Localization
Minoo Dolatabadi, Fardin Ayar, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada, Mahdi Javanmardi — International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA2024), Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Int'l conferenceEnhancing Unsupervised Person Re-Identification with GAN-Driven Multi-Pose Augmentation
Romina Zakerian, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada, Mahdi Javanmardi, Mohammad Rahmati — International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA2024), Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Int'l conferenceLiDAR-Camera Fusion for Video Panoptic Segmentation without Video Training
Fardin Ayar, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada, Mahdi Javanmardi, Mohammad Rahmati — International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA2024), Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Int'l conferenceWhere Do You Go? Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction using Scene Features
Mohammad Ali Rezaei, Fardin Ayar, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada, Mahdi Javanmardi — International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA2024), Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Int'l conferenceCross-Attention Enhanced Imitation Learning for End-to-end Autonomous Driving in Unprotected Turns
Dongyang Li, Ehsan Javanmardi, Naren Bao, Manabu Tsukada — International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA2024), Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Poster"Text + Eye" on Autonomous Taxi to Provide Geospatial Instructions to Passenger
Xinyue Gui, Ehsan Javanmardi, Stela Hanbyeol Seo, Vishal Chauhan, Chia-Ming Chang, Manabu Tsukada, Takeo Igarashi — Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction(HAI 2024), Poster, Swansea University, UK, 2024
Int'l conferenceLarge Language Models for Human-like Autonomous Driving Decision Making: A Survey
Yun Li, Kai Katsumata, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2024), Edmonton, Canada, 2024
Yuze Jiang, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada, Hiroshi Esaki — 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2024), Edmonton, Canada, 2024
Workshop / WiPTransforming Pedestrian and Autonomous Vehicles Interactions in Shared Spaces: A Think-Tank Study on Exploring Human-Centric Designs
Vishal Chauhan, Anubhav Anubhav, Chia-Ming Chang, Jin Nakazato, Ehsan Javanmardi, Alex Orsholits, Takeo Igarashi, Kantaro Fujiwara, Manabu Tsukada — 16th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutoUI 2024), Work in Progress (WiP), California, USA, 2024
Int'l conferenceRaceMOP: Mapless Online Path Planning for Multi-Agent Autonomous Racing using Residual Policy Learning
Raphael Trumpp, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada, Marco Caccamo — The 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), Abu Dhabi ,UAE, 2024
JournalEnhancing Reliability in Infrastructure-based Collective Perception: A Dual-Channel Hybrid Delivery Approach with Real-Time Monitoring
Yu Asabe, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada, Hiroshi Esaki — IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, 2024
JournalClothoid Curve-based Emergency Stopping Path-Planning with Adaptive Potential Field for Autonomous Vehicles
Workshop / WiPA Research of Kalman Filter enabled Beam Tracking for Multiple Vehicles
Dou Hu, Jin Nakazato, Ehsan Javanmardi, Muhammad Asad, Maruta Kazuki, Manabu Tsukada — ASPIRE Workshop 2024 in conjunction with the IEICE General Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, 2024
JournalSecure and Efficient Blockchain-based Federated Learning Approach For VANETs
Muhammad Asad, Saima Shaukat, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Naren Bao, Manabu Tsukada — IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024
PosterOptimizing mmWave Beamforming for High-Speed Connected Autonomous Vehicles: An Adaptive Approach
JournalZero-Knowledge Proof of Traffic: A Deterministic and Privacy-Preserving Cross Verification Mechanism for Cooperative Perception Data
Ye Tao, Ehsan Javanmardi, Pengfei Lin, Yuze Jiang, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada, Hiroshi Esaki — IEEE Access, 2023
Int'l conferenceRoadside LiDAR Assisted Cooperative Localization for Connected Autonomous Vehicles
Yuze Jiang, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada, Hiroshi Esaki — ACM Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA 2023), 2023
Int'l conferenceLocalizability Estimation for Autonomous Driving: A Deep Learning-Based Place Recognition Approach
Kazuto Matsumoto, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada — IEEE Robotic Computing 2023, California, USA, 2023
Workshop / WiPTowards a Trusted Inter-Reality: Exploring System Architectures for Digital Identification
Naren Bao, Jin Nakazato, Muhammad Asad, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — The 1st International Workshop on Internet of Realities (IoR-WS 2023) at International Conference on the Internet of Things, Nagoya, Japan, 2023
Yiwei Cheng, Jin Nakazato, Ehsan Javanmardi, Chia-Ming Chang, Manabu Tsukada — The Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services in the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet) 2023, New York City, USA, 2023
Int'l conferencePotential Field-based Path Planning with Interactive Speed Optimization for Autonomous Vehicles
Pengfei Lin, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada — 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2023), 2023
Int'l conferenceKeep Calm and Cross: Smart Pole Interaction Unit for Easing Pedestrian Cognitive Load
Vishal Chauhan, Chia-Ming Chang, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Koki Toda, Pengfei Lin, Takeo Igarashi, Manabu Tsukada — The 9th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (IEEE WFIoT2023), Aveiro, Portugal, 2023
JournalFostering Fuzzy Logic in Enhancing Pedestrian Safety: Harnessing Smart Pole Interaction Unit for Autonomous Vehicle-to-Pedestrian Communication and Decision Optimization
DomesticExtended Kalman filter based beam tracking for vehicle position and velocity estimation under intersection scenario
Dou Hu, Jin Nakazato, Ehsan Javanmardi, Muhammad Asad, Manabu Tsukada, Kazuki Maruta — 革新的無線通信技術に関する横断型研究会（MIKA）, 沖縄県, 2023
Int'l conferenceToST: Tokyo SUMO traffic scenario
Yuji Yamazaki, Yasumasa Tamura, Xavier Defago, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — The 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023), Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, 2023
Int'l conferenceOcclusion-Aware Path Planning for Collision Avoidance: Leveraging Potential Field Method with Responsibility-Sensitive Safety
Pengfei Lin, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada — The 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023), 2023
Int'l conferenceFlowsim: A Modular Simulation Platform for Microscopic Behavior Analysis of City-Scale Connected Autonomous Vehicles
Ye Tao, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada, Hiroshi Esaki — The 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023), Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, 2023
Int'l conferenceMixed-traffic Intersection Management using Traffic-load-responsive Reservation and V2X-enabled Speed Coordination
Nicholaus Danispadmanaba Yosodipuro, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Yasumasa Tamura, Xavier Defago, Manabu Tsukada — The 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023), Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, 2023
JournalLimitations and Future Aspects of Communication Costs in Federated Learning: A Survey
Muhammad Asad, Saima Shaukat, Dou Hu, Zekun Wang, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada — Sensors, 2023
Int'l conferenceOvercoming Environmental Challenges in CAVs Through MEC-Based Federated Learning
Zekun Wang, Jin Nakazato, Muhammad Asad, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada — 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN2023), Paris, France, 2023
Int'l conferenceAutowareV2X: Reliable V2X Communication and Collective Perception for Autonomous Driving
Dou Hu, Jin Nakazato, Ehsan Javanmardi, Muhammad Asad, Manabu Tsukada — European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) & 6G Summit Poster, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2023
Int'l conferenceTime-To-Collision-Aware Lane-Change Strategy Based on Potential Field and Cubic Polynomial for Autonomous Vehicles
Pengfei Lin, Ehsan Javanmardi, Ye Tao, Vishal Chauhan, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada — 2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2023), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2023
JournalA Comprehensive Survey on Privacy-Preserving Techniques in Federated Recommendation Systems
Muhammad Asad, Saima Shaukat, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada — Applied Sciences, 2023
