iCNS Distinguished Lecture: Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Research and Experiments

ABSTRACT

In this talk, I will first provide an overview of our Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) research and experimental activities at University at Buffalo, which includes our previous and ongoing projects related to Transportation Cyber Physical Systems, AR/VR Simulation, CAV Proving Ground, Cooperative Vehicle and Infrastructure (signal) control, applications of CAVs in transportation and our pilot deployment. I will then describe our recent work on the vulnerability of CAVs’ perception and use a practically realizable adversarial attack against lidars as an example.

BIOGRAPHY

Chunming Qiao is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of the CSE Department at University at Buffalo (UB). His research interests include the safety and reliability of various cyber physical systems (such as transportation systems with connected and autonomous vehicles), and recently quantum computing. He has published extensively with an h-index of 82 (according to Google Scholar). Several of his papers have received the best paper awards from IEEE and Joint ACM/IEEE venues. He also has 7 US patents and has served as a consultant for several IT and Telecommunications companies since 2000. His research has been featured in BusinessWeek, Wireless Europe, CBC and New Scientists. He was elected to be an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to optical and wireless network architectures and protocols.