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
My research interests center around the intersection of machine learning and computer vision for safe autonomous driving, with a focus on scene understanding and the potential of large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs) for autonomous driving. 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!
- 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