Student Achievements
Padnos Graduate Presents at ION Conference
February 20, 2019
Milan Aryal, a recent graduate of the School of Engineering, presented at the Institute of Navigation (ION) Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) conference. According to the ION’s website, the purpose of the conference is to “designed to disseminate and coordinate PTTI information at the user level, review present and future PTTI requirements, inform government and industry engineers, technicians, and managers of precise time and frequency technology and its problems, and provide an opportunity for an active exchange of new technology associated with PTTI.”
Milan’s presentation based on his thesis paper, Object Detection, Classification and Tracking for Autonomous Vehicles, focused on assisting with the challenges related to self-driving cars with respect to safely navigating to avoid collision. Through his presentation, he described the sensors used by the vehicles to interpret their environment and how using information from those sensors he developed an algorithm to detect objects and classify them when self-driving car are driving down the street.
While his presentation was based on simulations, Milan hoped the other attendees could learn from his approach. Regarding the conference as a whole, Milan said, “Presenting at the conference was a great opportunity for me. I had never presented my work on such a big stage. I not only got chance to learn from other presenters but was also able to share my work”.
Milan also wanted to thank his thesis advisor, Dr. Nicholas Baine, for the support and contributions to his success. Milan is currently working as an intern at Steelcase and looks forward to further developing his skills. Congratulations to Milan on his success!