Dr. Abhijit Sarkar is a Senior Research Associate in the Division of Data & Analytics at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. He currently leads the computer vision and machine learning group at VTTI. He is also affiliated faculty at the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the application of computer vision, machine learning, and time series data analysis for transportation safety and mobility. His recent projects involve perception of autonomous systems, sensor fusion, driver distraction, data deidentification, cardiac biometrics, human psychophysiology, vehicle safety, and naturalistic driving data. As a PI and Co-PI he has led projects multiple projects that were funded by NHTSA, FHWA, NSF, FMCSA, Safe-D UTC, NASA, NCHRP, and multiple private sponsors. He earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, USA, his master's from IIT Kharagpur, and his bachelor's from Jadavpur University, India, all in Electrical Engineering.