News
2024
Our research project was featured in the TRB Weekly Newsletter “Research Roundup.”
Our Safety21 UTC research project was featured in the TRB Weekly Newsletter ‘Research Roundup.’ The highlight was the project “On the Role of Perceived Safety Concerns on Public Acceptance Behavior of Autonomous Vehicles.”
Posted on Oct 4, 2024
H-SMART Lab receives funding from National Science Foundation on Trustworthy AI.
We are excited to kick off this NSF-funded project with our collaborators from UPenn and UC Riverside. Together, we will develop novel and comprehensive trustworthy AI tools providing the umbrella addressing technical (specifically, AI safety and AI security) and social (specifically, AI fairness) trust issues arising in AI systems embedded in transportation cyber-physical systems.
Posted on September 1, 2024
UTC Safety21 Executive Director Karen Lightman Visits H-SMART Lab.
We were thrilled to have Karen Lightman, Executive Director of University Transportation Center Safety21, meeting with our research team. Read more here.
Posted on June 14, 2024
UTRGV Hosts Community of Practice.
NSF CREST Center and UTC Safety21 hosted Community of Practice summer camp, which connects UTRGV faculty and student researchers with STEM teachers to help teachers develop K-12 curriculum relevant to STEM research areas.
Posted on June 14, 2024
2023
Leonel Ramirez wins Outstanding Student Award!
The award is supported by the Department of Civil Engineering, UTRGV.
Posted on September 29, 2023
Fatemeh Nazari receives Faculty Excellence Award!
Fatemeh Nazari receives 2022-2023 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Award in the category of Emerging Scholar. The Emerging Scholar Award recognizes and rewards tenure-track faculty for their contributions and demonstrated excellence in research or creative works.
Posted on June 1, 2023
H-SMART lab is funded by U.S. Department of Transportation through a $20M National University Transportation Center titled “Safety21.”
This center is led by Carnegie Mellon University. More details can be found here and here.
The center website: https://safety21.cmu.edu
Posted on February 24, 2023
2022
Fatemeh Nazari receives education award.
Fatemeh receives education award from UTRGV College of Engineering and Computer Science for developing a new college-level graduate course on "Introduction to Data Science."
Posted on September 10, 2022
Fatemeh Nazari receives Seed Research Grant.
Fatemeh receives Seed Research Grant supported by UTRGV for her research on “decision making behavior in autonomous mobility.”
Posted on May 20, 2022
Leonel Ramirez is selected for the NSF REU program at UCR.
Congratulations! Leonel Ramirez is selected for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supported by NSF CREST MECIS, UTRGV. Leonel joins UC Riverside during Summer 2022 to research on “tensor methods in computer vision and deep learning.”
Posted on May 20, 2022
2021
Andrea Campos Sanchez wins Outstanding Student Award!
The award is supported by the Department of Civil Engineering, UTRGV.
Posted on September 30, 2021
Fatemeh Nazari (co-PI) receives a grant from National Science Foundation.
This $5M NSF Center is focused on cyber-physical systems with the aim of pushing the frontiers of knowledge in future transportation infrastructure, which will be transformed by the advent of mobility technologies, notably autonomous vehicles (AVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Aligned in three tracks of autonomy, sensing, and artificial intelligence, this center will generate new knowledge in the theoretical, computational, experimental, and empirical domains. This center is led by UTRGV in partnership with UIUC, UIC, and UC Riverside.
Posted on September 10, 2021
Yellitza Soto and Andrea Campos Sanchez win the second place in the Poster Competition & Project Showcase for Engineers Week 2021!
The award is supported by the College of Engineering & Computer Science at UTRGV.
Posted on March 1, 2021
2020
Yellitza receives Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship!
This fellowship is supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation for the academic year 2020-2021.
Posted on November 10, 2020
Yellitza Soto receives 2020-2021 WTS Graduate Scholarship!
This scholarship is supported by Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS)-San Antonio Region.
Posted on May 10, 2020
