Mahdi Rezaei

Dr Mahdi Rezaei is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), ‎University of Leeds. His main research interests are AI, ML, and Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles including driver/occupant monitoring, pedestrians’ intention prediction, and AV/road-user interactions. He has over 15 years of experience in ‎academia and industry and currently leads a team of computer vision experts and experts in transportation at the University of Leeds.

Dr Rezaei is an executive member of the “Universities Transport ‎Study Group” (UTSG) in UK, a team leader in the EU Hi-Drive flagship project, a member of the Academic Advisory Group in the LIDA data scientist development programme (LIPAG), and also principle investigator and Co-I of multiple EU and UK funded projects in AV field.