Led the hardware team in 2022 for the largest coordinated driving experiment in history: 100 cars with customized ACC controllers on I-24 in Nashville, TN
Named Distinguished Scholar of the University of Arizona in 2020
Received NSF CAREER Award in 2013
Awarded the UA 'Catapult Award' by Tech Launch Arizona in 2014
His team won the NSF I-Corps Best Team award in 2012
Key research milestones include: first open-road demonstration of ACC string instability (2018), traffic wave damping with a single automated vehicle (2016), model-based operation of a full-sized autonomous car by 4th graders (2016), first model-based full-sized autonomous car testbed (2012), contributions to the DARPA Urban Challenge (2007), and first live dogfight between a full-scale UAV and a U.S. Air Force F-15 piloted jet (2004)