Joaquin Hernandez is a full-time researcher working for the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at the University of Texas, Austin. His current research involves developing a novel system for pavement deflection using high-speed laser-sensors. Other work pertain to pavement friction, noise and texture in flexible and rigid pavement. Aside from research, he enjoys cooking, traveling and is a car enthusiast.
Ekin is a third-year undergraduate student in the CAEE Department of UT Austin. Ekin was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey before moving to Texas for high school. His research interests include vehicular aerodynamics, network optimization, traffic simulation, autonomous vehicles, and data science. He likes talking politics, playing soccer and basketball, traveling, and hanging out with his dog Lunita.
Hassan is a PhD student in the CAEE department of the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated with Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NUST, Islamabad. His research focuses on monitoring of distributed parameter systems. He works on coupled problems of sensing, scalar field mapping, and autonomous navigation of mobile robots.
Suyash is a graduate student in the CAEE department of UT Austin. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. His research interests include traffic simulation, traffic control, optimization and ITS. He enjoys cooking, reading and playing video games.
Kun Qian’s research interests are in recommendation systems and multi-agent systems related problems. Kun is now an Applied Scientist working in Amazon Search Science and AI department.
I am a graduate student in Electrical & Computer engineering. My research focuses on developing AR based traffic safety system. These systems will work on fusing real-time video and IMU sensing on-board smart glasses like Google Glass, ODG-R7 etc. to come up with a collision prediction and prevention system. I am a coding geek and helps the group in various aspects of embedded systems, from bringing up the hardware to write software for it. My other project is developing GPS-less (IMU based) tracking systems which our group works on with Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot). My other interests include Artificial Intelligence, developing cool things with chip size computers like Raspberry PI.
Originally from Houston, Arthur is a senior undergraduate studying aerospace engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. He has a particular interest in control systems and automation. He has been tinkering with UAVs since he started school at UT, and tries to apply everything he learns towards experimenting with and improving UAVs. He is also cofounder of a drone-based delivery startup.
My research concerns developing a control supervisor for UAVs. By using classical reachability techniques we’re able to predict what state the aircraft will be in and assist in preventing it from getting into unsafe scenarios when it’s controlled either by a human operator or by its autopilot. Our goal is to use this control system to allow us to use the UAV in real-time flood monitoring. In this project machine-learning methods are used to tackle the computational challenges involved in the real-time reachability problem.
Alexander is a graduate student in Operations Research at the University of Texas, Austin. He currently works on network traffic state estimation, and Inertial-Measurement-Unit based traffic flow monitoring.
Vishnu Santhosh is a sophomore at The University of Texas at Austin majoring in Aerospace Engineering with a certification in Computational Engineering. His interest areas include programming, experimenting with RC aircrafts, and playing football.