Accepted by DSN 2024:

- Enhanced the resiliency of AVs in unfamiliar and accident-prone scenarios with a novel traffic risk assessment method
- Validated the method by unit-testing a prototype using designed experiments in
CARLA Simulatorand Argoverse dataset, including real-world geometric and semantic metadata, lane boundaries, geometric LiDAR, and ring camera information - Created
multi-threadeddata generation and testing pipelines and boosted efficiency by 200% usingsubprocessin Python - Engineered a memory-efficient
ResNetvariant, reducing the footprint by 50% while achieving 95%+ testing accuracy - Constructed 6000 scenarios from NHTSA pre-crash typologies and trained lightweight
Double DQNReinforcement Learning Agents inPyTorchto preemptively brake using the traffic risk as an indicator, reducing accidents by 72.7% - Cleansed and statistically analyzed generated datasets using
pandas, and visualized outcomes with seaborn and Matplotlib