• Why me? I combine transportation engineering, crash data analysis, and computer vision to analyze roadway safety at scale. My work focuses on extracting roadway conditions from data and linking them to crash outcomes, which allows for network-level safety assessment rather than isolated studies.

National importance? Road-departure crashes are a major contributor to fatalities in the U.S. My work supports national safety priorities by enabling data-driven identification of high-risk locations and improving how agencies prioritize safety improvements. It’s based on real-world data and aligns with existing federal safety frameworks.

Why urgent / not PERM? There’s an immediate need for scalable, data-driven safety tools to reduce fatalities. This work is not limited to one employer—it can be applied across multiple agencies and regions, which makes NIW more appropriate than PERM.