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Physical AI Lab @ UTK University of Tennessee, Knoxville

People

Researchers, students, and alumni of Physical AI Lab @ UTK.

Current members

Alumni

  1. Humberto Saenz, M.S. in 2019, Thesis: Detecting phone-related pedestrian distracted behaviors via a two-branch convolutional neural network, First Employment: Software Develop Engineer, Automation Solutions, Houston, TX.
  2. Andrew Chen, M.S. in 2019, Thesis: Learning to detect pedestrians by watching videos, First Employment: Software Develop Engineer, EXXON Mobil, Houston, TX.
  3. Lai Wei, visiting student in 2019, First Employment: PhD student in Computer Science, University of South Carolina.
  4. Abhijit Baul, co-advised M.S. in 2021, Thesis: Learning to detect pedestrian flow via synthetic data. First Employment: PhD student in Computer Science, University of Houston.
  5. Dr. Shaoyue Song , co-advised PhD in 2021 at University of South Carolina, Dissertation: Knowledge transfer-based image scene and object information extraction method, First Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Beijing University of Technology.
  6. Dr. Lan Fu , co-advised PhD in 2022 at University of South Carolina, Dissertation: Image restoration under adverse illumination for various applications, First Employment: Staff Research Engineer, OPPO US Research Center, Palo Alto, CA.
  7. Runsheng Xu , Research Intern, 2021, First Employment: PhD student at University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  8. Jin Ma, PhD Student, 2021-2023, Transferred to Clemson University, SC, USA
  9. Dr. Huiming Sun , PhD in 2024, Dissertation: Deep Learning based Remote Sensing Image Analysis under Complex Scenarios, First Employment: Senior Research Engineer, OPPO US Research Center, Palo Alto, CA.
  10. Dr. Jinlong Li, PhD in 2024, Dissertation: Overcoming Real-World Challenges in Autonomous Driving Perception: Methodology and Application, First Employment: Postdoc, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
  11. Xinyu Liu, M.S. in 2024, MS Thesis: Economic V2X Cooperative Perception: A New Density-Sensitive Infrastructure LiDAR Benchmark, First Employment: PhD student at Auburn University.
  12. Zongzhe Xu , Research Intern, 2024, First Employment: PhD student at University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  13. Dr. Baolu Li , PhD in 2025, Dissertation: Generalization and Robustness of Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception, First Employment: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, XPENG, Santa Clara, CA.
  14. Dr. Jiacheng Guo , co-advised PhD in 2025, Dissertation: Model Optimization and Adversarial Robustness in Multi-task Deep Neural Networks, First Employment: TBD.