Miao Fan
Chief scientist and Head of Intelligent Connected Vehicles at Navinfo Co., Ltd
Adjunct associate professor at Renmin University of China
Senior member of IEEE
Author of books "Machine Learning with Python for Kaggle Competitions" and "AI Programming with Python in Practice"
20+ top-tier papers with 1500+ citations
50+ granted patents and 10+ software copyrights
Employment History
• Navinfo Co., Ltd.
Chief Scientist [Intelligent Connected Vehicles] （2022.12 — Now）
• Momenta
Senior Director [Autonomous Driving] （2022.6 — 2022.12）
• Baidu Inc.
Principal Scientist [HD Maps] （2017.7 — 2022.6）
Education
• Baidu Inc. & Tsinghua University
Postdoctoral Fellow （2017.10 — 2019.11）
• Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Ph.D. with Dean's Honor （2012.9 — 2017.6）
• Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Visiting Scholar （2015.3 — 2016.3）
• Software Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
B.Eng. （2008.9 — 2012.6）
Academic Services
• Renmin University of China
Adjunct Associate Professor
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Senior Member
Awards
• China General Chamber of Commerce
Science and Technology Award （2025）
• Chinese Society for Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography
National Excellent Surveying and Mapping Project Award （2025）
• China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association （ITS China）
Science and Technology Award （2024）
Research Grants
• Research on Information Extraction and Transmission Technology for Vehicle-Infrastructure-Cloud Integration
National Key R&D Program of China（No. 2024YFB2505802）.
Principal Investigator (2025-2028)
• Research on HD Map Update with Crowdsourced Roadside Units
Key R&D Program of Beijing, China（No. Z241100003524013）.
Principal Investigator (2024-2025)
• Research on Big Data Mining System for Autonomous Driving
Key R&D Program of Shaanxi Province, China（No. 2024GX-ZDCYL-01-10）.
Principal Investigator (2024-2026)
• Research on Multimodal Data Platform for Intelligent Transportation
Key R&D Program of Anhui Province, China（No. 202423k09020034）.
Principal Investigator (2024-2027)
• Research on HD Map Update with Domestic GPU Cloud and Crowdsourced Intelligent Vehicles
Beijing Nova Program, China（No. 20240484616）.
Principal Investigator (2024-2026)
Monographs
• AI Programming with Python in Practice
Miao Fan, Shengtong Xu （Tsinghua University Press）
• Machine Learning with Python for Kaggle Competitions (2nd Edition)
Miao Fan, Shengtong Xu （Tsinghua University Press）
• Machine Learning with Python for Kaggle Competitions (1st Edition)
Miao Fan, Chao Li （Tsinghua University Press）
Publications (Selected)
• A Benchmark for Vision-Centric HD Mapping by V2I Systems
Miao Fan, Shanshan Yu, Shengtong Xu, Kun Jiang, Haoyi Xiong, Xiangzeng Liu
IV'25, IEEE. [C]
• Video-based Traffic Light Recognition on Rockchip RV1126 for Autonomous Driving
Miao Fan, Xuxu Kong, Shengtong Xu, Haoyi Xiong, Xiangzeng Liu
IV'25, IEEE. [C]
• Towards V2X HD Mapping for Autonomous Driving：A Concise Review
Xu Xiao, Suhui Yang, Miao Fan, Shengtong Xu, Xiangzeng Liu, Wenbo Hu, Haoyi Xiong
IV'25, IEEE. [C]
• Semantic SLAM with Rolling-Shutter Cameras and Low-Precision INS in Outdoor Environments
Yuchen Zhang, Miao Fan, Shengtong Xu, Xiangzeng Liu, Haoyi Xiong
IV'25, IEEE. [C]
• A Concise Survey on Lane Topology Reasoning for HD Mapping
Yi Yao, Miao Fan, Shengtong Xu, Haoyi Xiong, Xiangzeng Liu, Wenbo Hu, Wenbing Huang
IV'25, IEEE. [C]
• Neural HD Map Generation from Multiple Vectorized Tiles Locally Produced by Autonomous Vehicles
Miao Fan, Yi Yao, Jianping Zhang, Xiangbo Song, Daihui Wu
SpatialDI'24, Springer. [C]
• DuMapper：Towards Automatic Verification of Large-Scale POIs with Street Views at Baidu Maps
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang
CIKM'22, ACM. [C]
• Meta-Learned Spatial-Temporal POI Auto-Completion for the Search Engine at Baidu Maps
Miao Fan, Yibo Sun, Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Ying Li
KDD'21, ACM. [C]
• HGAMN：Heterogeneous Graph Attention Matching Network for Multilingual POI Retrieval at Baidu Maps
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Yibo Sun, Miao Fan, Zhengjie Huang, Chunyuan Yuan, Yawen Li
KDD'21, ACM. [C]
• Curriculum Meta-Learning for Next POI Recommendation
Yudong Chen, Xin Wang, Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, Shengwen Yang, Wenwu Zhu
KDD'21, ACM. [C]
• DOLG：Single-Stage Image Retrieval with Deep Orthogonal Fusion of Local and Global Features
Min Yang, Dongliang He, Miao Fan, Baorong Shi, Xuetong Xue, Fu Li, Errui Ding, Jizhou Huang
ICCV'21, IEEE. [C]
• GEDIT：Geographic-Enhanced and Dependency-Guided Tagging for Joint POI and Accessibility Extraction at Baidu Maps
Yibo Sun, Jizhou Huang, Yuanchun Yuan, Miao Fan, Haifeng Wang, Ming Liu, Bing Qin
CIKM'21, ACM. [C]
• Understanding the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Transportation-related Behaviors with Human Mobility Data
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Miao Fan, An Zhuo, Yibo Sun, Ying Li
KDD'20, ACM. [C]
• Personalized Query Auto-Completion for Large-Scale POI Search at Baidu Maps
Ying Li, Jizhou Huang, Miao Fan, Jinyi Lei, Haifeng Wang, Enhong Chen
Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, ACM. [J]
• Personalized Prefix Embedding for POI Auto-Completion in the Search Engine of Baidu Maps
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Miao Fan, An Zhuo, Ying Li
KDD'20, ACM. [C]
• MONOPOLY：Learning to Price Public Facilities for Revaluing Private Properties with Large-scale Urban Data
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, An Zhuo, Ying Li, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
CIKM'19, ACM. [C]
Granted Patents (Selected)
• Method and Device for Evaluating Comment Quality, and Computer Readable Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11756094B2
• Method and Apparatus for Presenting Information
Miao Fan, Lin Guo, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11651015B2
• Method for Sorting Geographic Location Point, Method for Training Sorting Model and Corresponding Apparatuses
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, Yufan Hou
US Patent No.：US11556601B2
• Method and Apparatus for Generating Information Assessment Model
Miao Fan, Sen Ye, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11521016B2
• Method, Apparatus, Computer Device and Readable Medium for Knowledge Hierarchical Extraction of a Text
Miao Fan, Sen Ye, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11514247B2
• POI Valuation Method, Apparatus, Device and Computer Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, An Zhuo, Ying Li, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11468349B2
• Method and Apparatus for Responding to Question, and Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11461399B2
• Method, Apparatus, Device and Storage Medium for Evaluating Quality of Answer
Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11409964B2
• Method and Apparatus for Identifying Traffic Accident, Device and Computer Storage Medium
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Hao Zhang, Miao Fan
US Patent No.：US11328600B2
• Method and Apparatus for Determining Response for User Input Data, and Medium
Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11238050B2
• Method, Apparatus for Evaluating Review, Device and Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11403680B2
• Method and Device for Information Retrieval, Device and Computer Readable Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Zehao Dou, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11055374B2
• Method and Apparatus for Building Synonymy Discriminating Model and Method and Apparatus for Discriminating Synonymous Text
Miao Fan, Mingming Sun, Wutao Lin, Ping Li
US Patent No.：US10776578B2
• Message processing method, device, equipment and computer storage medium
Shengtong Xu, Xiao Yang, Chao Wang, Miao Fan
CN Patent No.：CN112003778B
• Method, device, equipment and computer storage medium for query automatic completion
Ying Li, Jizhou Huang, Miao Fan, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN111222058B
• Method, device, equipment and computer storage medium for query automatic completion
Ying Li, Jizhou Huang, Miao Fan, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN111241427B
• Method for establishing sequencing model, method for automatically completing query and corresponding device
Ying Li, Jizhou Huang, Miao Fan, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN111221952B
• Method for extracting spatial relation of geographic position points and method and device for training extraction model
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Wei Zhang, Miao Fan
CN Patent No.：CN111737383B
• Method, device and equipment for POI value evaluation and computer storage medium
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, An Zhuo, Ying Li, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN110659433B
• Traffic accident recognition method, device, equipment and computer storage medium
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Hao Zhang, Miao Fan
CN Patent No.：CN111859291B
• Method, device, equipment and storage medium for evaluating comments
Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN108363790B
• Method and device for pushing information
Miao Fan, Tong Zhou, Jizhou Huang
CN Patent No.：CN113495942B
• Information retrieval method, device, equipment and computer readable medium
Miao Fan, Jinxing Yu, Zehao Dou, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN110633407B
• Method, apparatus, device and computer readable storage medium for information retrieval
Miao Fan, Zehao Dou, Mingming Sun, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN110674429B
• Method, apparatus, device and storage medium for updating model parameters
Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li
CN Patent No.：CN110399547B
• Method and Device for Establishing Synonymous Identification Model and Identifying Synonymous Text
Miao Fan, Mingming Sun, Wutao Lin, Ping Li
CN Patent No.：CN107797985B