Research Associate
Supervisor: John H.L. Hansen

Pinar Boyraz received double major B.S. degrees with high honors in Textile and Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey in 2003 and 2004. She was awarded her PhD degree in the interdisciplinary area of Mechatronics from Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University in the United Kingdom in 2008.

She joined CRSS in February 2008 as a Research Associate and coordinates research efforts for the UTDrive project under the supervision of Prof. John H.L. Hansen. She has been an IEEE member since July 2008.

Research interests:
Broad:

• Mechatronics and control theory (robust and optimal control)
• Hybrid Dynamic Systems
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• Signal Processing and Mathematical Modeling

Focused:

• Stochastic and control theoretic modeling of driver behaviour
• Human-centric active vehicle safety system development
• Driver status monitoring and driver assistance system development
• Context-aware intelligent vehicle technologies
• In-vehicle applications of computer vision and image processing

Recent publications:

• Boyraz, P., Sathayanarayana, A, and Hansen, J.H.L., "Lane Keeping Performance Metrics for Assessment of Auditory-Cognitive Distraction," accepted to SAE, February 2009.
• Boyraz, P., Acar, M., Kerr, D., "Multi-sensor Driver Drowsiness Monitoring," IMechE PartD, Journal of Automobile Engineering, vol.222, no. D11, pp. 2041-2063, November 2008 (ISSN 0954-4070).
• Boyraz, P., Yang, X., Sathyanarayana, A., Hansen, J.H.L., "Computer vision systems for context-aware active vehicle safety and driver assistance," in Enhanced Safety for Vehicles (ESV), 2009, 13-15 June, Stuttgart, Germany.
• Boyraz, P., Sathyanarayana, A., Hansen, J.H.L., "Driver behaviour modeling using hybrid dynamic systems for 'driver-aware' active vehicle safety," in Enhanced Safety for Vehicles (ESV), 2009, 13-15 June, Stuttgart, Germany.

Contact

Email: Pinar Boyraz
Office: ECSN 4.426
Tel: 972-883-6237
www.utd.edu/research/utdrive/UTDrive-Website.htm