Meet the Team

   
 


Pic of the Team

Our team consists of one undergraduate student, one graduate student, one HSE thrust leader, and two professors, all involved in promotion as well as research and implementation. This team has worked hard on this project since the fall of 2004 and have been very thorough in there approach. These members keep Mississippi State University on the up and up when it comes to technology and development in the automotive field.



Ron Lewis
Research Associate

Ron Lewis, a CAVS research associate, has developed the Web application and software infrastructure.

Will Jenkins
Graduate Research Assistant

Will Jenkins is a graduate student majoring in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include embedded design and wireless communication. He is the lead hardware and software engineer for the embedded system.

Austin Walton
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Austin Walton is an undergraduate student majoring in computer engineering. His technical interests include data mining, web based applications, and digital system design. Austin is also a member of Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity. Austin works on the Java Applet development.

Brock Bland
Research Associate

Brock is a Research Associate specializing in software development. He is the lead engineer for the software components of the system.

Ben Rose
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ben is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science and Engineering.

Ben Payment
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ben is an undergraduate student majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

 

Dr. Joe Picone
Co-Principal Investigator

Dr. Picone's areas of research expertise include automatic speech recognition, signal processing, and spoken language dialog. He has over 25 years of experience in speech recognition research and has led the development and distribution of one of the world's leading recognition systems, participating in state of the art evaluations of such technology. Dr. Picone has directed the design and development of the system software. He has also supervised the design and development of the BullyBus web server.

Dr. Georgios Lazarou
Principal Investigator

Dr. Lazarou's areas of research expertise include mobile and wireless ad hoc networks for intelligent transportation systems (ITS), next generation smart networking technology, energy efficient protocols for wireless sensor networks, next generation Internet protocol design, and performance analysis and simulations of communication protocols. Dr Lazarou has directed the design and development of the communications system components.

Zach Rowland
Co-Principal Investigator

Zach Rowland is the Thrust Leader for Human and Systems Engineering in the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University. He is expert in electronic technologies and embedded processing for automotive diagnostics. Mr. Rowland has directed the design and development of the system hardware.

Rita Jackson
GRI Associate

Rita Jackson is an Extension Associate II specializing in Cartography. She is the contact person for the GIS Mapping Service at Mississippi State. GeoResources Institute. Ms Jackson has directed the GIS design and compilation of the roads and routes for this project.

Dr. Julie Baca
 

Dr. Baca's research interests include human-computer interaction, spoken language dialog, and universal access. She has over a decade of experience designing and testing accessible user interfaces for graphical, spoken language, and multimodal applications. Dr. Baca has supervised the design and development of the system software. She has also supervised all other user interface design, usability, and human subject testing issues related to the project.

Christopher Andrew Martin
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Andrew is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science and Engineering.

Gary Weasel, Jr.
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Gary is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Engineering.

 
 

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