Xiaocong Zhao is a Postdoc Research Fellow at the College of Transportation, Tongji University, China. From November 2022 to December 2023, he was a visiting researcher at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. His primary research interests include computational cognitive behaviors modeling, decision-making in driving interaction, and social behaviour analysis. Xiaocong led the champion group in the 2022 Commonroad Motion Planning Competition for Autonomous Vehicles. He has contributed to notable journals such as IEEE T-ITS, TR-Part C, CACAIE, and AA&P. Since 2021, he has been a regular attendee and contributor at IEEE conferences, including the ITSC and IV, participating in seminars and workshops. Xiaocong has served as a reviewer for TR-Part C, IEEE T-ITS, T-VT, ITSC, and IV. He is currently the working group leader of an IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) New Initiative Project.