Sina Shafaei, M.Sc.

shafaei(at)in.tum.de
Room: MI 03.07.057
Phone: +49.89.289.18108
Fax: +49.89.289.18107
Address: Institut für Informatik IV Technische Universität München,
Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Office Hours: By email
Curriculum Vitae
- (2017 - Now) Research Assistant, Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Systems, TUM
- (2013 - 2016) Master in Informatics, Technische Universität München (TUM)
- (2008 - 2013) Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)
Teaching
Summer Semester 2019:
- Master Seminar: Emotional Awareness in Autonomous Driving
- Master Seminar: Advanced Methods for Emotion Recognition in Highly Automated Driving
Winter Semester 2018/19
- Master Seminar: Online Learning in Autonomous Driving
- Lab Course: Build Your Own Demonstration Platform for Autonomous Driving
Teaching Assistant Lectures:
- (WS2017/18 - WS2018/19): Embedded Networked Systems
- (WS2017/18 - WS2018/19): Real-Time Systems
Past:
- (Summer Semester 1018): Master Seminar - Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving
- (Summer Semester 2018): Master Seminar - Machine Learning in Robot Assisted Therapy
- (Winter Semester 2017/18): Master Seminar - Context Prediction in Autonomous Driving
- (Winter Semester 2017/18): Lab Course - Deterministic Networking Lab
Open Thesis Topics / Guided Research
- Enabling Multi Face Detection in Multimodal Emotion Recognition System
- Ontology-based Framework for Defining Environmental Constraints in Safety Critical Applications
Are you interested in Autonomous Driving? Emotion Recognition Systems? or Affective Computing? Do you also have any relevant background and would like to get your hands dirty on some challenging topics? Then shoot me an email! Don't forget to attach your CV and the list of the related work you've done before
Thesis Supervision
Ongoing:
- Master Thesis: Modeling Eye Gaze of the Driver into a Multimodal Emotion Recognition System, Alexander Binsmaier, (start: October 2018)
- Master Thesis: Illumination Resisted Emotion Recognition with Infrared Thermal Cameras, Toghrul Seyidov (start: October 2018)
- Master Thesis: State Mapping of Reinforcement Learning Agent based on Safety-Criticality in CARLA Simulator, Lukas Heinzmann (start: November 2018)
- Bachelor Thesis: Enabling Multi Face Detection in Multimodal Emotion Recognition Systems, Nikan Moghadam (start: March 2019)
Finished:
- Guided Research: Emotion Recognition System for Evaluating the Comfort Level of the Occupants in an Autonomous Car , Mesut Kuscu (November 2017-April 2018)
- Guided Research: Ensuring Safety of Machine Learning-based Systems, Saasha Nair (March-September 2018)
- Master Thesis: Emotion Detection Through Speech Analysis in Resource Poor Environments, Felix Lachenmaier (start: June-November 2018)
- Master Thesis: Enabling Federated Learning for Dynamic Driving in Autonomous Vehicles, Ankit Gupta, (start: June-November 2018)
- Master Thesis: Driver-Behavior Modeling Based on Deep Learning for Automated Emotion Recognition, Mesut Kuscu, (April-August 2018)
- Master Thesis: A Behavior-based Approach for Automotive Emotion Recognition Systems, Tahir Hacizade (January-August 2018)
- Master Thesis: [External @BMW] Reinforcement Learning-based Comfort Functions in Automotive, Niko Tzioras (December 2017-August 2018)
- Master Thesis: [External @BMW] Machine Learning-based Control of a Limited Slip Differential, Ana-Maria Radut (April-October 2017)
- Master Thesis: Balancing Engagement and Distraction Level of Driver in Highly Automated Driving using Interactive Infotainment Systems, Christina Kopp (April-September 2018)
- Bachelor Thesis: Developing a Smart Wiper System Adaptive to the Drivers' Behavior based on SVM, Deborah Höltje (March-September 2018)
- Bachelor Thesis: An Evaluation of Safety Monitoring Framework on Obstacle Detection Application, Franziska Schwaiger (April-October 2018)
- Bachelor Thesis: A Nueral Network-based Pedestrian Detection System (Case-Study: YOLO), Simon Zachau (November 2017-April 2018)
Hints for a Student
Hints for a Researcher
- Emotion Recognition Resources
- WikiCFP
- Thesis Guide
- Microsoft Academic
- Conference Rankings
- Scimago Journal and Country Ranking Engine
- Computer Science Conference Rank
- List of the Computer Science Conferences
- Writing Technical Articles
- Organizing My Research References
- How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors
- How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab
- Wissenschaftliches Schreiben
- Reading Papers: SQ3R
Publication
2019
- Monitoring Safety of Autonomous Vehicles with Crash Prediction Networks. The AAAI's Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety, 2019accepted - Honolulu, Hawaii more… BibTeX
- Poster: Evaluation of Feature Selection for Anomaly Detection in Automotive E/E Architectures. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2019accepted more… BibTeX
2018
- Abnormal Driver Behavior Detection for Automated Emotion Recognition (Poster). 6th French-German Summer School, Emotion-aware Vehicle Assistants (EVA) 2018, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
- Context Prediction Architectures in Next Generation of Intelligent Cars. 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018 more… BibTeX
- Uncertainty in Machine Learning: A Safety Perspective on Autonomous Driving. First International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering, 2018SAFECOMP Conference, Västerås, Sweden more… BibTeX
- Integration of Driver Behavior into Emotion Recognition Systems: A Preliminary Study on Steering Wheel and Vehicle Acceleration. International Workshop on Advanced Machine Vision for Real-life and Industrially Relevant Applications, ACCV, 2018 more… BibTeX
- Elastic Service Provision for Intelligent Vehicle Functions. 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018 more… BibTeX
2017
- A Regression-based Control Approach for Limited Slip Differencial. TUM (Technical Report), 2017, more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
- Research challenges for a future-proof e/e architecture - a project statement. 15. Workshop Automotive Software Engineering, 2017 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
2016
- Formally verifiable modeling of in-vehicle time-sensitive networks (TSN) based on logic programming. 2016 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), IEEE, 2016 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)