Vesal Ahsani

Applied AI/ML Scientist

Publications

  1. Ahsani, V., Khalaj, B. H. & Shah-Mansouri, H. (2025). Real-Time In-Cabin Driver Behavior Recognition on Low-Cost Edge Hardware. arXiv 2512.22298.
  2. Ahsani, V., Rahimi, A., Letafati, M., & Khalaj, B. H. (2023). Metaverse-as-a-Service: A Novel Operator View. 2nd Abu Dhabi 6G Summit, Nov 2023.
  3. Ahsani, V., Rahimi, A., Letafati, M., & Khalaj, B. H. (2023). A Novel Metaverse-as-a-Service Architecture from an Operator View. In Proc. IEEE MetaCom 2023.
  4. Ahsani, V., & Sharma, A. (in press). Spatio-temporal Game-Day Traffic Hotspot Detection and Prediction. Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation.
  5. Ahsani, V., Rahimi, A., Letafati, M., & Khalaj, B. H. (2023). Unlocking Metaverse-as-a-Service: The Three Pillars to Watch—Security & Privacy, Edge Computing, and Blockchain. arXiv 2301.01221.
  6. Ahsani, V., & Sharma, A. (2023). Real-Time Traffic-Incident Detection Using a Dynamic Time-Warping Algorithm. Acta Scientific Computer Sciences, 5(1), 30–39.
  7. Ahsani, V., Amin-Naseri, M., Knickerbocker, S., & Sharma, A. (2019). Quantitative Analysis of Probe-Data Characteristics: Coverage, Speed Bias and Congestion-Detection Precision. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(2), 103–119.
  8. Ahsani, V., Sharma, A., Hegde, C., Knickerbocker, S., & Hawkins, N. (2020). Improving Probe-Based Congestion Performance-Metric Accuracy by Using Change-Point Detection. Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation, 2(1), 61–74.
  9. Chakraborty, P., Adu-Gyamfi, Y. O., Poddar, S., Ahsani, V., Sharma, A., & Sarkar, S. (2018). Traffic Congestion Detection from Camera Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Transportation Research Record, 2672(45), 222–231.
  10. Poddar, S., Özcan, K., Chakraborty, P., Ahsani, V., Sharma, A., & Sarkar, S. (2018). Comparison of Machine-Learning Algorithms to Determine Traffic Congestion from Camera Images. Proc. TRB 97th Annual Meeting.
  11. Sharma, A., & Ahsani, V. (2019). Assessing the Impact of Game-Day Schedule and Opponents on Travel Patterns and Route Choice Using Big-Data Analytics. Technical Report, Iowa State University.
  12. Bakhshi, A. R., Khaksar, H., Almasi, S. A., Ahsani, V., & Abdollahi Lashaki, S. (2022). Spatial Estimation of Expected Accident Frequency on Rural Divided Four-Lane Highways. SSRN Working Paper 4067001.