The Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2) would like to thank Dr. Mashrur “Ronnie” Chowdhury, Eugene Douglas Mays Professor of Transportation, Clemson University, for kicking off a new year of our Distinguished Speaker Series on January 4th, 2021.
Seminar Title
Roadway Safety Advancement through Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
Seminar Abstract
The purpose of this talk is to provide a foundational knowledge building block for researchers and practitioners pledged to make real-world impacts on improving transportation safety. In this webinar, Dr. Chowdhury will focus on the roadway safety advancements through Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) technology. The audience will gain the most up-to-date knowledge about recent developments in CAV safety standards, and planning tools to design and develop the CAV safety applications. They will learn about real-world CAV safety projects conducted by the Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2). Dr. Chowdhury will also discuss the imminent challenges hampering the pathway of safety improvement through CAVs. The future potentials of roadway safety improvement in the ever-evolving transportation system will be explored.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Mashrur “Ronnie” Chowdhury is the Eugene Douglas Mays Professor of Transportation in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University. He is also a professor in the Department of Automotive Engineering and Division of Computer Science at the School of Computing. Dr. Chowdhury is the founding Director of the USDOT Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2 ) (https://cecas.clemson.edu/C2M2/). He is co-director of the Complex Systems, Analytics and Visualization Institute (CSAVI) (www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/csavi/). His research focuses on transportation cyber-physical systems (CPS) security, navigation of connected and automated vehicles through in-vehicle sensors and external connectivity with digital infrastructure, heterogeneous wireless communications, distributed machine learning on the edges, cloud-edge computing collaboration in CPS, and safety risk analysis for autonomous vehicle operations in a mixed traffic stream.
Dr. Chowdhury has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, 85 peer-reviewed conference proceedings papers, four textbooks, nine book chapters, and seven research articles in widely circulated professional magazines. He has developed multiple software for connected and automated vehicles (e.g., AutoNavi, CVDeP, CVGuard, PSMGen, and POSH). His leadership in smart city research and development is evident by his close industry and public agency collaborations. He is an alumnus of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering program. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a fellow of ASCE. He is a senior member of IEEE.