Join us for a presentation featuring Dr. Punyasha Chatterjee
Abstract: In a smart city scenario, Intelligent Transportation System(ITS) plays an important role as it improves traffic operations, road safety, sustainability, traffic and vehicle management in passenger and goods delivery. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are getting more importance in the recent era of ITS as they reduce carbon footprints and conserve fossil fuels. High infiltration of EVs will cause increasing demand for surplus charging which will gradually lead to serious challenges, such as from where, how fast, and when the charging can take place, or what is the cost of charging. Due to the non-ubiquity of static charging stations, Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) charging offers a fast and flexible energy exchange for EVs. In this talk, I will discuss a novel distributed V2V charge-sharing approach using a multi-criteria decision-making policy. Further, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or Drones are also of interest as they have transformed into versatile tools with applications across infrastructure inspection, surveillance, agriculture, search and rescue, parcel delivery, post-disaster recovery, environmental monitoring, through real-time data collection and efficient task execution. However, operating UAVs beyond the visual line of sight (BVLoS) introduces safety, regulatory, and communication concerns. To pursue flexible and scalable BVLoS flights, there are two big challenges: risk and connectivity. In this talk, I will discuss a novel multi-layer framework in order to build a graph-based data structure that will be exploited by path-planning algorithms to ensure minimum risk and seamless connectivity during a UAV’s mission.
Bio: Dr. Punyasha Chatterjee is an Associate Professor and Director at the School of Mobile Computing & Communication, Jadavpur University, India. She served as a visiting professor at the University of Perugia, Italy in October 2023. She has almost 16 years of experience in Engineering Education and Research. She did BTech, M.Tech. and PhD in Information Technology from the University of Calcutta. Her areas of interest include Wireless Sensor Networks, the Internet of Things, Unmanned vehicles, Pervasive Computing, and Distributed Algorithms. She has received project grants from the Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Rashtriya Uchchattar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA 2.0), Govt. of India. She has published research papers in refereed journals, international conferences, and book chapters. She served as a program committee member, session chair, or workshop chair in various international conferences including ACM ICDCN, IEEE ANTS, IEEE LCN, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE MASS, etc. She is one of the guest editors of the special issue on “Applications-Driven UAV Routing and Scheduling Algorithms for Autonomous Transportation Systems” in the ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and IEEE Computer Society.
Recently, we were honored to host Professors B. S. Murthy and Tarun K. Panda of the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad at UMBC. After tours of COEIT, Murthy and Panda visited with several faculty in person and online. They provided an overview of IIT Hyderabad, discussed the possibilities of research collaborations between our two institutions and ways to strengthen existing academic collaborations with UMBC and India.
Aditi Walunj, First Secretary, Embassy of India joined the tours, presentations and meetings.
Welcome Week 2023 was an amazing success! Thank you to all the students, faculty and staff that welcomed our new students. Our students enjoyed pizza, swag, networking, and tours of our research labs. We are already looking forward to next year, but have a great semester everyone!
