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Topics:  Wired/Wireless Networking, Cyber-Physical Systems , Autonomous Driving, Embedded and Real-Time Systems

Industries: Automotive, Information Technology and Services, Computer Networking, Computer Hardware, Computer Software

Raj Rajkumar is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the director of Metro21, Carnegie Mellon University's campus-wide initiative on Smart Cities, and the US Department of Transportation's Mobility21 National University Transportation Center. Rajkumar is thinking of ways to safely bring your vehicle to life with information technology — giving you a car that will know and help you, inform and entertain you, and even take care of itself like a proper traveling companion. That includes connected and autonomous driving, cyber-physical systems, embedded and real-time systems and wired/wireless networking. Rajkumar is exploring the many intricate engineering domains of vehicle operation in a quest for some answers to what's possible in the cars of tomorrow.

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Carnegie Mellon gets $20M in federal funds to spark transportation safety initiative  — Technical.ly
Carnegie Mellon electrical and computer engineering professor Raj Rajkumar said Safety 21 would use research and development to advance tech and policy innovations. “We seek to broaden our impact by ensuring communities have equal access to safety technologies; evaluating energy use and emissions; and supporting domestic commercialization, entrepreneurship and public policy to rally economic strength and global competitiveness,” Rajkumar said.

Tesla closes an office as layoff hits Autopilot jobs, including hourly ones  — Reuters
"Tesla clearly is in a major cost-cutting mode," said Raj Rajkumar, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. "This (staff reduction) likely indicates that 2Q 2022 has been pretty rough on the company due to the shutdown in Shanghai, raw material costs and supply chain problems."

The White House is lobbying hard for chip funding that experts say would help Pittsburgh tech firms  — 90.5 WESA
“They cannot actually buy the high-performance computers that they need to basically utilize to train the artificial intelligence to make these products work. So that has clearly hampered the development side of these technologies.” Carnegie Mellon electrical and computer engineering professor Raj Rajkumar said.

Top robotics expert on Uber crash questions whether sensors worked  — USA Today
"The car's LiDAR (light ranging and detection laser system) should have picked the pedestrian up far before it hit her," says Raj Rajkumar, who leads the autonomous vehicle research team at Carnegie Mellon University.

6 Questions For Carnegie Mellon Autonomous Car Prof  — St. Augustine Record
Today, the Pittsburgh school is among the world's leaders in autonomous cars. Google's self-driving car chief got his training there. It's doing research for General Motors, and ride-sharing service Uber recently signed on to develop a self-driving vehicle. Raj Rajkumar has helped lead the school's efforts for the past 15 years as a professor of computer and electrical engineering. He also heads a spinoff company that is developing autonomous car software. Here are Rajkumar's answers to questions about the fast-moving technology, edited for length and clarity:

CMU Researchers Share Work with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg  — CMU News
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited Carnegie Mellon University facilities at Mill 19 today in one of his final stops as Transportation Secretary. Raj Rajkumar, director of Safety21 and George Westinghouse Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with Ph.D. candidates Nishad Sahu and Gregory Su, demonstrated research on the safe navigation of autonomous driving systems in designated work zones, leveraging high-definition mapping, computer perception and vehicle connectivity.