Raj Rajkumar
Safety21 Director
raj@ece.cmu.edu
412-268-8707
Fax: 412-268-1124
Website
Raj Rajkumar is the Director of Metro21 Institute and Safety21, a USDOT National University Transportation Center for Safety. Rajkumar is the George Westinghouse professor at CMU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Raj also serves as Co-Director of the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Collaborative Research Laboratory. His work is primarily in cyber-physical systems, such as autonomous driving and vehicular networks, and wireless/sensor networks, including the creation of Nano-RK, the reservation-based real-time operating system (RTOS). Raj has won six best paper awards, and his paper on Priority Inheritance Protocols proposed a solution to ‘priority inversion problem,’ allowing for the success of the 1997 Mars Pathfinder Mission.
Karen Lightman
Interim Safety21 Executive Director
karenlightman@cmu.edu
412-268-8973
Website
Karen Lightman is the Interim Executive Director of Safety21 Institute and Safety21, a USDOT National University Transportation Center for Safety, and is the Executive Director of Metro21: Smart Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Karen is an internationally recognized leader in building and supporting communities based on emerging technologies. Her diverse background spans the consumer, military, healthcare, manufacturing, and automotive sectors. Karen is ranked by EETimes as one of the top 25 “Women in Tech.” She is a passionate advocate and spokesperson for technology solutions to real-world problems and has held several board positions and is currently treasurer on the board of the MetroLab Network. Karen has a BA from the University of Vermont (UVM) and a MS in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College.
Chandani Sharma
Safety21 Program Manager
chandans@andrew.cmu.edu
Safety21 University Partner Contacts
Safety21 CCAC Director
Justin Starr
Community College of Allegheny County
jstarr@ccac.edu
+ 1 412 639-5771
Assistant Professor of Mechatronics
West Hills Center, N2203
1000 McKee Road
Oakdale, PA 15071
Safety21 Morgan State University Director
Jiang Li
Morgan State University
jiang.li@morgan.edu
+1 443 885-3293
Department Chair, Department of Civil Engineering
Morgan State University
CBEIS, Room 101B
Baltimore, MD 21251
Safety21 The Ohio State University Director
Keith Redmill
The Ohio State University
redmill.1@osu.edu
+1 614 292-5216
Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
420 Dreese Laboratories
2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Safety21 University of Pennsylvania Director
Rahul Mangharam
University of Pennsylvania
rahulm@seas.upenn.edu
+1 215 573-3636
200 South 33rd Street
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Safety21 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Director
Hossein Noruzoliaee
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
h.noruzoliaee@utrgv.edu
+1 956 665-3728
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Drive, EIEAB 3.238
Edinburg, TX 78539
Safety21 Community College of Philadelphia Director
Richard Saxton
Community College of Philadelphia
rsaxton@ccp.edu
+1 267 299-5875
Professor of Automotive Technology
Community College of Philadelphia
Automotive Technology Program
4731 Ludlow Street
Philadelphia, PA 19139
