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- Sep 21, 2026 Talk Research visit and seminar at Université Gustave Eiffel Dr. Arash Tavakoli visited Université Gustave Eiffel in Paris for a research visit and gave a joint LVMT and PICS-L seminar on the lab’s recent work on human-centered…
- Sep 15, 2026 Conference Presentation Driver World Models presented at the ITSC 2026 workshop in Naples Dr. Arash Tavakoli presented our work, “Driver World Models: Unified Representations of Drivers in Semi-Automated Driving,” at the ITSC 2026 Workshop on Computational Models of Human Road User…
- Aug 24, 2026 Press Villanova Engineer: The Human-Centered Cities Lab in the Summer 2026 issue The Human-Centered Cities Lab is featured in the Summer 2026 edition of Villanova Engineer magazine. The story, on pages 29–30, highlights work by our graduate and undergraduate students…
- Aug 15, 2026 Press NBC10 Philadelphia features the lab’s virtual roads research NBC10 Philadelphia featured Dr. Arash Tavakoli and Villanova Engineering students, who are using virtual roads to explore and study transportation safety. “Our goal is to be able to…
- Aug 3, 2026 Paper New paper: Measuring pedestrian well-being in the wild Yasaman Hakiminejad’s new article, “A multimodal human-centered framework for assessing pedestrian well-being in the wild,” has been published in the Journal of Urban Mobility. The work brings us…
- Jul 20, 2026 Lab Visit from Dr. Valentina Graci and students from Drexel University and CHOP The Human-Centered Cities Lab welcomed Dr. Valentina Graci and her students from Drexel University and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). We shared our research, showed them our immersive…
- Jun 29, 2026 Conference Presentation Shiva and Yasaman present takeover study at IEEE Intelligent Vehicles 2026 Shiva Azimi and Yasaman Hakiminejad presented their work at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2026). Together with our collaborators, they ran a major study of human–automated vehicle…
- Jun 11, 2026 Lab Hosting Dr. Andrew Sonta and the ETHOS Lab from EPFL We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Andrew Sonta and Philyoung Jeong from the ETHOS Lab at EPFL for a few days at Villanova. Dr. Sonta delivered a…