• Conducted research on diverse imaging setups, including stereo, infrared, wide-angle, & fisheye lenses for palm vein biometrics & integrated infrared dot projection for precise 3D reconstruction.

• Implemented a MobileNet-based segmentation model tailored for palm vein biometrics, significantly improving accuracy & speed.

1) Designed a novel Virtual Reality driving simulator using Unity, SUMO, Matlab RoadRunner, and Meta VR.

2) Reduced immersive driving simulator cost by 98.8% to make it accessible for $2,500, enabling cost-effective driving research.

3) Leveraged VR simulation to conduct a VR user study of accident scenarios, capturing participant interactions and curating a dataset.

4) Achieved enhanced path planning for AVs & and increased safety using UniTraj to predict driving behaviors & vehicle trajectories.

5) Employing sim-to-real image translation to the captured interactions by applying the style of the real world to simulated images.

• Executed 3D digital image correlation for stress analysis by doing 3D reconstruction using a single camera and robot arm.

• Conducted research to identify and analyze speckle patterns using a microscopic camera lens for biomechanical 3D DIC purposes.

• Pioneered a synthetic dataset through mathematical deformation, enabling the training of an ML model for DIC strain analysis.