Transportation Virtual Workshop

Co-Sponsored by SAMSI and the ASA Transportation Statistics Interest Group

The registration deadline was December 1, 2020.

This past spring, the pandemic interrupted some of the activities of the SAMSI program on Games, Decisions, Risk, and Reliability.   To round out that program, the working group on Transportation Statistics has organized a two-day virtual workshop on Dec. 7/8, 2020.  The primary focus of the workshop is on safety and autonomous vehicles, but other topics adjacent to those fields will be covered.

This workshop is co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association’s Transportation Statistics Interest Group.

Confirmed Speakers:

Anjishnu Banerjee, Medical College of Wisconsin

William Caballero, United States Air Force

Qi Alfred Chen, University of California Irvine

Eric Donnell, Pennsylvania State University

Feng Guo, Virginia Tech

Cem Hotipoglu, NHTSA

Linda Ng Boyle, University of Washington

David Rios Insua, IMAT

Vadim Sokolov, George Washington University

Rakesh Verma, University of Houston

Dawn Woodard, Uber

Fanyou Wu, Purdue University


Printable Schedule

Speaker Titles and Abstracts

Monday, December 7th   
Virtual – Eastern Standard Time (NY)

9:45                           Welcome and Opening Remarks, David Banks, SAMSI Director

10-10:30                     Cem Hotipoglu, NHTSA

                                    Automated Driving Systems Research at NHTSA

10:30-11                    Eric Donnell, Pennsylvania State University

                                    Data-driven Approaches to Traffic Safety

11-11:30                    Feng Guo, Virginia Tech University

                                    Driving Risk Assessment via High-Frequency, High-Resolution Telematics Data

11:30-12:00               Anjishnu Banerjee, Medical College of Wisconsin

                                    Injury Risk Assessments in Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Motor Vehicle Impact Crashes

12:00-1:00                 Break

1:00-1:30                    Dawn Woodard, Uber

                                    Statistical Efficiency of Travel Time Prediction

1:30-2:00                   Linda Ng Boyle, University of Washington

                                    Appropriate Allocation of Driver’s Attention Given Increasingly Autonomous Systems

2:00 pm                      Adjourn

Tuesday, December 8th  
Virtual – Eastern Standard Time (NY)                   

9:45                            Updates and Brief Announcements

10-10:30                     David Rios Insua, ICMAT-CSIC

                                     Managing Driving Modes in Autonomous Driving Systems

10:30-11                     Vadim Sokolov, George Washington University

                                    Bayesian Analysis of Traffic Flow Data

11-11:30                     Fanyou Wu, Purdue University

                                     Some Experience about Machine Learning Competitions – using KDD CUP RL track as an example

11:30-12:00                Rakesh Verma, University of Houston

                                     Adversarial Machine Learning for Images and Text Data

12:00-1:00                 Break

1:00-1:30                    William Caballero, USAF

                                     Decision Support Issues in Autonomous Driving Systems

1:30-2:00                    Qi Alfred Chen, University of California, Irvine

                                     Towards Secure and Robust Autonomy Software in Autonomous Driving

2:00 pm                      Adjourn

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