About

Who am I

I'm Rakshit Soni, an automotive engineer and researcher working on autonomous vehicles and human interaction.

Now: autonomous vehicles and people

I'm a CIFRE PhD researcher working on autonomous vehicles and how they interact with humans. I'll share more about this work here once it is published.

Master's: game theory at the crossing

Game-theoretic interactions between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles

I was a Master's in Computer Science by Research candidate in the L-CAS group at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. My research focused on decision making for automated vehicles and mobile robots, including OpenPodCar_V2, an open-source autonomous vehicle platform, as part of the European INTERACT project.

Foundations

I graduated with a Bachelor's in Automotive Engineering and have kept researching intelligent vehicles ever since, first in the UK and now in France.

Why I write

My writing started as DIVE, short for Driverless and Intelligent VEhicles. I enjoy writing about state-of-the-art advances and solid research in automotive engineering: new intelligent-mobility approaches and the technical detail behind them. Alongside the technical work, I write about new and upcoming automated-driving features from global OEMs, and occasionally about related areas such as marine autonomous systems and mobile robots.

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