Intelligent Mobility · Human-Aware Intelligent Vehicles · Multimodal Perception · Trustworthy & Deployable AI
Human-Centered AI for Intelligent Transportation Systems
I am an Electronics Engineer and AI researcher working on Human-Centered AI for Intelligent Transportation Systems, with a focus on Intelligent Mobility. My interests include intelligent vehicles, computer vision, multimodal learning, trustworthy AI, and deployable intelligent systems.
My research explores AI systems that integrate human, environmental, and operational context to support safer and more adaptive mobility, with particular interest in multimodal perception, human-aware decision support, explainable AI, and real-world deployment.
I also have experience in university teaching and engineering laboratories, and I am interested in an academic trajectory combining research, teaching, advanced training, and international collaboration.
Human-Centered AI
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intelligent Mobility
Human-Aware Intelligent Vehicles
Multimodal Perception
Human-Aware Decision Systems
Trustworthy & Explainable AI
Human-AI Interaction
Embedded / Edge AI
research lines
Four complementary directions within a broader research agenda in Human-Centered AI for Intelligent Transportation Systems, with a focus on Intelligent Mobility.
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Multimodal Human & Scene Understanding
Integrating visual, behavioral, contextual, and temporal information to model both human state and the surrounding environment.
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Human-Aware Assistance & Automation
Adaptive assistance, shared control, and decision support that account for human state, uncertainty, and driving context.
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Trustworthy & Explainable AI
Robust, interpretable, and uncertainty-aware AI for safety-critical perception and decision-making.
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Deployable & Edge AI
Efficient multimodal systems designed for real-time deployment under practical sensing, computational, and operational constraints.
news
Sep 2026
Paper Confidence-Controlled XAI Auditing for Pedestrian Detection under Domain Shift accepted as a Regular Paper at IEEE ICVES 2026.
Aug 2026
Extending the driver-monitoring benchmarking work toward deployment-aware, non-compensatory evaluation across robustness, efficiency, explainability, and generalization.
Jul 2026
Completed master's thesis research on driver-grouped conformal risk control and graded longitudinal fallback for Level 2 automated driving; journal manuscript submitted.
Jun 2026
Released the preprint Beyond aggregate scores: Deployment-aware and non-compensatory benchmarking of vision-based eye-state recognition models for driver monitoring on arXiv.
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Oct 2024
Published a real-time embedded driver-drowsiness system on NVIDIA Jetson Nano in Sensors 24(19).
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selected research outputs
Accepted · IEEE ICVES 2026
R. D. Florez-Zela · IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES) · 2026 · Regular Paper
Under review · M.Sc. thesis
R. D. Florez-Zela · Journal manuscript under review · 2026
Current preprint
R. D. Florez-Zela · arXiv:2606.08123 · Journal manuscript under review · 2026
Most cited work
R. Florez, F. Palomino-Quispe, R. J. Coaquira-Castillo et al. · Applied Sciences 13(13), 7849 · 2023