activities
Research leadership, technology translation, conference activities, and professional service.
Research and technology translation
- 2025–present — Research Assistant Professor, UTC Research Institute. Research on graph learning, multi-camera perception, edge AI, federated learning, traffic safety, and security of smart contracts.
- 2025–present — Co-founder and CEO, UrbisIQ. Translating human-interactive, multi-camera AI research into practical transportation and public-safety tools, including the patent-pending iCityGuardian platform. UTC feature (June 2026).
- 2026 — Co-founder and CTO, MANDO SCAN. Working on AI-powered vulnerability detection and development-workflow security for blockchain smart contracts.
- 2026 — Industry-academic research with DENSO. Traffic-conflict anticipation, federated trajectory prediction, and edge-deployable intelligent transportation technologies.
Conferences and presentations
- October 2026: Two full research papers accepted to the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2027), on language-guided multi-camera tracking and map-free traffic-conflict anticipation. Full bibliography will be added once camera-ready metadata is available.
- 2026: Research collaboration contributed papers accepted to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2027 Annual Meeting.
- June 2026: Served as a Poster Session Chair at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2026), Detroit, Michigan. Co-authored Pedestrian Crossing Intent Prediction via Psychological Features and Transformer Fusion.
- 2026: Co-authored papers on roadside camera–LiDAR fusion and proactive intersection safety at IEEE ITSC 2026.
- 2026: Co-authored Trustworthy Evaluation of Quantum Message Passing: Isolating Circuit Contributions in Traffic Forecasting, accepted to the NeurIPS SaTQuML 2026 workshop.
Reviewing and service
Recent conference reviewing includes ACM Multimedia 2026, ACML 2026, and AAAI 2027. Journal reviewing includes IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability, in addition to earlier software engineering and machine learning venues. I also contributed to the Chattanooga Connect organizing activities.