Dr. Mahdi Rezaei is an Associate Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning and the team leader of the Computer Vision Research Group at the University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies. With a PhD in Computer Science and 18 years of research experience in academia and industry, he is a PI and lead CO-I in various flagship EU and UK projects, such as EPSRC, Hi-Drive, MAVIS, and L3Pilot. He has published over 65 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers with multiple Best Paper Awards, focusing on the development of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS), AV-Pedestrian interactions, Explainable AI (XAI), and Intelligent Transportation Systems.

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