Jonathan Morrison, Administrator for the USDOT National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), met with Safety21’s Director Rajkumar and Executive Director Karen Lightman to tour the Pennsylvania Safety, Transportation, and Research...
On September 14, 2026, Safety21 researcher Sean Qian attended the 2026 National Mobility Summit: Advancing the Movement of People and Goods held in Washington, D.C. The event convened leaders from...
Safety21’s Chris Hendrickson and Karen Lightman attended the MIT Mobility Forum’s webinar – Autonomous Vehicle Operations on the Ground: Phoenix, Miami, Vegas – held on September 11, 2026. The session...
On September 9, 2026, Safety 21’s Chris Hendrickson and Karen Lightman joined in celebration of the professorship of Katherine Flanigan, Safety21 faculty researcher. Flanigan is now the Henry Posner, Anne...
On September 9, 2026 the PennSTART Operating Committee met to discuss updates, progress and potential of PennSTART. Safety21 Director Raj Rajkumar sits on the Operating Committee, alongside the other core...
On September 2, 2026 Karen Lightman joined the PennSTART Construction Committee as they met to discuss the progress being made on the site. For those of you who don’t know,...
On September 2, 2026 the ITS America Artificial Intelligence Committee held one of its regular meetings. Co-chaired by Karen Lightman, the committee discussed its collaboration with the AV Committee to...
The Safety21 Summer Research Symposium at Morgan State University (MSU) brought together 30 undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, and transportation research collaborators to showcase progress in landslide-risk reduction...
Safety21 Executive Director Karen Lightman attended the Community-Based Work Coalition meeting on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus to share Safety21 updates. The coalition aims to establish a baseline understanding of the...
Safety21 researcher Carlee Joe-Wong (Carnegie Mellon University) published a paper in IEEE Communications Magazine. Read the paper, “Redefining the Role of Large AI Models in Real-Time RAN Control,” here.
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Safety21 released a Research Recap for The Ohio State University project, “Safe and Efficient Automated Freeway Traffic Control.” This work was led by Safety21 researcher Benjamin Coifman. Research Recaps are...
On August 25, 2026, Karen Lightman attended the ITS America webinar: V2X Accelerator Phase 1 Progress, Insights, and Lessons Learned Series Webinar #2: Utah DOT. The webinar featured the project...