I am currently a PhD candidate at KIT, advised by Prof. Christoph Stiller. My research focuses on end-to-end autonomous driving. Previously, I completed my master's studies in autonomous driving at University of Stuttgart, where I conducted research projects and the master's thesis at Bosch Research on end-to-end perception and prediction.

Selected Publications

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arXiv · 2026

LongTail Driving Scenarios with Reasoning Traces: The KITScenes LongTail Dataset

Royden Wagner, Ömer Şahin Taş, Jaime Villa, Felix Hauser, Yinzhe Shen, Marlon Steiner, Dominik Strutz, Carlos Fernandez, Christian Kinzig, Guillermo S. Guitierrez-Cabello, Hendrik Königshof, Fabian Immel, Richard Schwarzkopf, Nils Alexander Rack, Kevin Rösch, Kaiwen Wang, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Martin Lauer, Igor Gilitschenski, Holger Caesar, Christoph Stiller

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research · 2025

Divide and Merge: Motion and Semantic Learning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Yinzhe Shen, Ömer Şahin Taş, Kaiwen Wang, Royden Wagner, Christoph Stiller