Professor Andry Rakotonirainy

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Professor Andry Rakotonirainy is a renowned expert in the field of road safety and , with 25 years of experience in multidisciplinary research leadership and management. He is a member of  CARRS-Q/Centre for Future Mobility  and the founder of its ITS human factors research program, he has established a comprehensive reputation in the industry and academia, having been awarded over $51 million in multidisciplinary research grants during his career at QUT. He has a PhD in computer science from and Sorbonne University (France). He has been a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts, governments/industry committees and  EU-funded projects' advisory boards.

His extensive research portfolio includes over 300 internationally refereed papers in prestigious journals and conferences, with one pioneering paper having been cited 1070 times. He has an h-index of 40 and has been awarded 14 Australian Research Council (ARC DP, LIEF, LP, ITTC) competitive grants. He serves on international conference and journal committees and reviews internationally competitive grants.  Professor Rakotonirainy's ITS research has been recognized internationally, and he has proactively investigated the use of existing and emerging  ITS from multiple disciplines such as computer science, mathematics, human factors, engineering, psychology, and sociology to improve road safety. He has extensively used driving simulators, traffic simulators and instrumented vehicles for developing system prototypes, cost-benefit analysis, machine learning methods and psychological theories to understand, predict and assess human behaviour.

He has been involved in a €6.4 million EU-funded (Horizon 2020) project called, led by Loughborough University, which focuses on the societal-level impact of connected and automated vehicles. He helped to establish a new “International Centre for Connected and Automated Mobility” (ICCAM) bilateral research laboratory without wall with Université Gustave Eiffel.

He is also the lead researcher on projects as part of Queensland's Department of Transport, initiative on safety and effectiveness of emerging Automated and Cooperative Vehicles, ARC Discovery grant on AI Explainability and digital twins for AVs.

Professor Rakotonirainy's expertise and leadership in the field of ITS research make him a highly competitive figure in academia and industry.