About Me
Postdoctoral Fellow, autonomous driving
Hello and welcome! I am Mozhgan, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo working with Prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki at the Waterloo Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab (WISE). I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Ottawa, working under the guidance of Prof. Azzedine Boukerche at the PARADISE Laboratory. My dissertation focused on driving behavior analysis and prediction for safe autonomous vehicles, and I am passionate about pushing the boundaries of autonomous driving.
- Affiliation: University of Waterloo
- E-mail: mnasraza AT gmail DOT com
- Address: Website
- LinkedIn: Work Page
- ResearchGate: Research Page
- Google Scholar: Here
Research Interest
The ultimate goal of my research is to develop trustworthy, interactive, and scalable models that integrate computer vision and natural language to enhance perception, understanding, reasoning, and decision-making in autonomous systems, such as autonomous vehicles, robots. To achieve this, my work leverages interdisciplinary approaches, unifying techniques from multimodal large language models, computer vision, robotics, machine learning, explainable AI, and reinforcement learning to advance autonomous systems capabilities. My prior work on Driving Behavior Analysis includes developing end-to-end deep learning and inverse reinforcement learning-based models for multimodal, context-aware, and interaction-aware motion forecasting. Additionally, I have extracted efficient driver embeddings from driving time series using scalable representation learning techniques and leveraged graph-based spatiotemporal convolutions to model interactive behavioral patterns among multiple agents within driving scenes.
News
- 08/2024: Our paper is accepted at IEEE transaction on Vehicular Technology!
- 04/2024: I have joined the WISE lab team at the University of Waterloo as a Postdoc!
- 02/2024: I was awarded the prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship!
- 01/2024: One paper is accepted at IEEE ICC 2024!
- 11/2023: I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis and was nominated for the Best Thesis Award!
- 09/2023: Our paper is accepted at IEEE transaction on Vehicular Technology!
- 08/2023: One paper is accepted at IEEE Globecom 2023!
- 02/2023: Invited talk for Principle of Intelligent Transportation Systems at University of ottawa!
Publications
To be published/Under Review
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
Prior to 2019
* co-first author
Academic Services
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2023 -- Present
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV), 2023 -- Present
- Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022 -- Present
- Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2022 -- Present
- Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2022 -- 2023
- Open transportation journal, 2022 -- 2023
- IEEE Access, 2022 -- Present