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NYU Tandon School of Engineering: Human Factors & Urban Ergonomics Lab (HumanFUEL)
Advisor: Dr. Linda Ng Boyle | Vice Dean of Research, NYU Tandon SOE - C2SMART Institute
September 2023 - Present
- Virtual Worlds for Real Agents: Validating VR Pedestrian Behavior (dissertation)
- Eyes Up! Egocentric Collections of Pedestrian Decision-Making (dissertation)
- So Pedestrian: Detection Displays in Automated Vehicles
- Pedestrian Exposure for Crash Prediction
- SIM-2-SIM: Virtualized mixed-traffic driving environments with human regulated RL agents
- JAYWALK: Unregulated pedestrian behavior in mixed-traffic driving environments
- The Mode Choice Should be my Choice!
Since moving to NYC at the beginning of 2024, I have also been involved with setting up the new lab:
- Ordering, installing, and calibrating new lab equipment: 2 vehicle simulators, 2 free-motion simulators, 2 motion capture systems, LANs for real-time synchronization.
- Designing lab space for human subjects experiments, developing lab name and logo, and creating lab space use documentation.
- Coordinating with building managers, administration, technology manufacturers and equipment suppliers.
- Interviewing potential undergraduate and graduate candidates for research lab positions.
Emory University School of Medicine: Lakdawala Lab
Research Scientist, Computer Vision | PI: Dr. Seema Lakdawala
January 2026 - Present
- Pose estimation and identity tracking for dye-marked ferrets under dense occlusion in influenza-transmission studies (more here).
- Decoupled identity from pose with SLEAP creator Dr. Talmo Pereira: Random Forest HSV classifier with Hungarian matching.
- Confidence- and margin-gated assignment abstains rather than guessing, so occlusion swaps cannot propagate.
- Architected the AWS GPU pipeline (EC2/S3, sleap-nn/PyTorch/CUDA): ~1.5 h per 2 h video, streaming at flat memory.
University of Washington: Human Factors and Statistical Modeling Lab (HFSM)
Advisor: Dr. Linda Ng Boyle | Professor, Chair, UW Industrial & Systems Engineering
June 2021 – August 2023
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL)
Advisor: Dr. John Lee | Professor, UW-Madison Industrial & Systems Engineering
May 2017 – August 2019
- Conducted an ethnographic study recording driver short-stop behavior at urban intersections.
- Labeled vehicle-pedestrian interaction with ANVIL video coding software.
- Utilized NADs miniSim software for naturalistic driving environments.
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