Our Team

The SmartSafe StreetScapes research team represents a multidisciplinary group of faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students from UNC Charlotte, who will collaborate with residents of Charlotte’s North End Smart District to discover ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) can effectively improve safety and security for homeowners, business owners and the entire community.

Lead Principal Investigator

Hamed Tabkhi
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Co-Principal Investigators

Srinivas Pulugurtha
Professor, Research Director
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Arun Ravindran
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shannon Reid
Assistant Professor
Criminal Justice and Criminology
Douglas Shoemaker
Director
Ctr. for Applied Geographic Information Science

Graduate Students

Mohammadreza Baharani
Ph.D. student
TECSAR
Anjus George
Ph.D. student
Shrey Mohen
M.Sc. student
Samuel Rogers
Ph.D. student
TECSAR
James Rozier
M.Sc. student
Justin Sanchez
Ph.D. student
TeCSAR
Joshua Slycord
Ph.D. student
TECSAR

Undergraduate Students

Matias Mendieta
Undergraduate student
Christopher Neff
Undergraduate student