Abhijit Sarkar
Virginia Tech
Current University
Virginia Tech
Research Areas
Intersection of artificial intelligence and transportation research with an emphasis to computer vision. This includes safety and operations of automated driving systems; driver distraction and attention monitoring; intersection safety; unmanned aerial vehicles; multimodal sensor processing using naturalistic driving data; and AI application in driver health monitoring
Background
Sarkar is a senior research associate within Virginia Tech’s Division of Data and Analytics at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and affiliate faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. He leads the Computer Vision and Machine Learning team at VTTI.
He holds a Ph.D. with a focus in computer vision and remote health monitoring, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering.
Sarkar’s research has been funded by such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, the National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence, and the U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center.
Alma Maters
Virginia Tech
Indian Institute of Technology
Jadavpur University