Christian Claudel

Christian Claudel is an associate professor in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the William J. Murray, Jr. Fellowship in Engineering No. 1. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the same institution in 2009, and an M.S. in Plasma Physics from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France in 2004. Claudel's research specializations encompass control and estimation of distributed parameter systems, cyberphysical systems monitoring, transportation systems, wireless sensor networks, unmanned aerial vehicles, and the application of wireless sensor networks to environmental monitoring. He is affiliated with the Center for Transportation Research and directs the Mobile Automation and Sensing Systems (MASS) laboratory, focusing on innovative sensing and automation technologies for civil engineering challenges.

Claudel's scholarly contributions have profoundly influenced transportation engineering and related fields through highly cited publications. Key works include 'Social-STGCNN: A Social Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Human Trajectory Prediction' (2020, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1364 citations), 'Optimization and Analysis of a Robot-Assisted Last Mile Delivery System' (2020, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 270 citations), 'Vehicle Classification and Speed Estimation Using Combined Passive Infrared/Ultrasonic Sensors' (2017, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 191 citations), 'Lax–Hopf Based Incorporation of Internal Boundary Conditions into Hamilton–Jacobi Equation. Part I: Theory' (2010, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 223 citations), and 'Flash Flood Detection in Urban Cities Using Ultrasonic and Infrared Sensors' (2016, IEEE Sensors Journal, 121 citations). His research has earned prestigious recognitions, including the Best Paper Award from the Urban Freight Transportation Committee (2020), the Innovation Award from SpaceX (2017), and the Leon Chua Award from UC Berkeley (2010). These achievements underscore his impact on smart mobility, urban sensing, and autonomous systems within the engineering discipline.

Professional Email: christian.claudel@utexas.edu