Christos Katrakazas
Christos Katrakazas is a PostDoc Research Associate at the Technical University of Munich.
Christos received a PhD from Loughborough University (United Kingdom) and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He has worked for about two years, initially as a research assistant and then as a research associate at Loughborough University. In 2014, he was a visiting research student in INRIA, Grenoble, France. His research focuses on autonomous vehicles, road safety, machine learning, traffic microsimulation and Big Data. He has authored peer-reviewed journal and conference publications mostly on the safety assessment of autonomous vehicles as well as real-time collision prediction.
Publications
Christos has authored peer-reviewed journals and conference publications on motion planning and safety assessment of autonomous vehicles as well as on real-time collision prediction and traffic simulation.
Full list:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=WnU5NhkAAAAJ&hl=en
Work Experience
| Feb 2018 - Oct 2019 | Research Associate Technical University of Munich Arciststraße 21, D-80333, München, Germany. |
| Jul 2017 - Jan 2018 | Research Associate Loughborough University, Transport Safety Research Group, Design School. |
| Oct 2016 - Jul 2017 | Research Assistant Loughborough University, Transport Studies Group, School of Architecture, Civil and Building Engineering Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom |
Education
| Oct 2013 – Jul 2017 | Ph.D. in Civil and Building Engineering Transport Studies group, Loughborough University, United Kingdom Thesis: Developing an advanced collision risk model for autonomous vehicles, |
| Sep 2005 - Mar 2011 | Diploma in Civil Engineering National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Specialization: Transportation engineering, Thesis: "Investigating factors affecting helmet use among European motorcyclists |
Awards and Scholarship
| Oct 2013 | Scholarship for mini-CDT on automated mobility from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the United Kingdom |
| Oct 2014 | Grant for research visit in INRIA, Grenoble, France, |
| Dec 2015 | Grant for research seminar presentation in Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea |
Reviewing Activities
Journals
- Transportation Research Part C
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- PlOS ONE
Conferences
- Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
- IEEE MT-ITS
- mobil.TUM2018
- hEART2018