Mozhgan Nasr, Ph.D.

Postdoc Fellow at University of Waterloo
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About Me

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

 

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

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!
Resume

Resume

To view my full CV please click Here (01/2024)

Publications

Publications

To be published/Under Review

Hierarchical Transformers for Motion Forecasting based on Inverse Reinforcement Learning
IEEE transaction on Vehicular Technology (accepted)
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche

 

2024

A Novel Transformer-Based Model for Motion Forecasting in Connected Automated Vehicles
IEEE ICC 2024 (accepted)
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche

 

2023

CAPHA: Context-Aware Path Prediction of Heterogeneous Agents
IEEE transaction on Vehicular Technology
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche GMP: Goal-based Multimodal Motion Prediction for Automated Vehicles
IEEE Globecom 2023 (accepted)
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche A Context-Aware Path Forecasting Method for Connected Autonomous Vehicles
2023 IEEE ICC
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche STAG: A novel interaction-aware path prediction method based on Spatio-Temporal Attention Graphs for connected automated vehicles
Adhoc Networks
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche

 

2022

A Novel Multimodal Vehicle Path Prediction Method Based on Temporal Convolutional Networks
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche An Interaction-Aware Vehicle Behavior Prediction for Connected Automated Vehicles
2022 IEEE ICC
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche Siamese Temporal Convolutional Networks for Driver Identification Using Driver Steering Behavior Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche An Internet-of-Vehicles Powered Defensive Driving Warning Approach for Traffic Safety
2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche DriverRep: Driver Identication through Driving Behavior Embeddings
JPDC journal
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks for Driver Identification: An Empirical Study
2022 IEEE ITAVT
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche

 

2021

Driving Behavior Analysis Guidelines for Intelligent Transportation Systems
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche Toward Driver Intention Prediction for Intelligent Vehicles: A Deep Learning Approach
2021 IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche Driver Identification Using Vehicular Sensing Data: A Deep Learning Approach
2021 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche

 

2020

Performance Evaluation of Driving Behavior Identification Models through CAN-BUS Data
2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
M.N. Azadani and A. Boukerche

 

Prior to 2019

Graph-based biomedical text summarization: An itemset mining and sentence clustering approach
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
M.N. Azadani, N. Ghadiri, and E. Davoodijam Evaluating Different Similarity Measures for Automatic Biomedical Text Summarization
International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications
M.N. Azadani and N. Ghadiri Performance evaluation of SpatialHadoop for big web mapping data
2016 Second International Conference on Web Research (ICWR)
E.F. Maleki*, M.N. Azadani*, and N. Ghadiri

 

* co-first author

Academic Services

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