
Team Member Spotlight – Brian Haugen
TM Spotlight, IVS
IVS is starting a new spotlight series to shine light on our hard-working team members. For this month we would like to introduce Brian Haugen. He is a Senior Engineer in IVS group APAD1. Brian grew up in Ann Arbor, MI before going to college at Ohio State University for his undergraduate in Engineering Physics. … Continued

CSRC’s Rini Sherony Earns International Safety Award
Research, In the News, CSRC
ANN ARBOR, MI On Monday, April 3, Rini Sherony, Senior Principal Engineer – Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center, received the 2023 U.S. Government Award for Safety Engineering Excellence. The award, given by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, recognizes researchers who have made exceptional scientific contributions in the field of motor vehicle safety engineering and their distinguished service to … Continued

ITL researcher received the Best Poster Award at the SEC 2022
Research, In the News, ITL
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA ITL Researchers – Seyhan Ucar and Kentaro Oguchi received the Best Poster Award at the SEC 2022. Unsafe driving (e.g., distracted, aggressive) has evolved into a public safety crisis in the USA. This paper focuses on the management of innocent drivers around distracted driving. The ego vehicle detects distracted driving of follower … Continued

ITL researcher received the Best Paper and Best Demo Awards at the VehicleSec 2023 Symposium
Research, In the News, ITL
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA ITL Researcher – Michael Clifford, and co-authors, received the Best Paper Award and Best Demo award at the VehicleSec 2023 workshop. Michael, and other researchers, have developed the first physical-world attack against connected, autonomous vehicle (CAV) traffic sign recognition systems that is invisible to humans. Toyota does research on security attacks so … Continued

Toyota ACM Grand Opening
Events, In the News, IVS
The grand opening of Toyota’s test facility at the American Center for Mobility (ACM) test track in Michigan was a highly anticipated event for the automotive industry.

Dr. Muldoon Elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry
In the News, TM Spotlight, TRINA
An unwavering commitment to push boundaries yielded discoveries and insights published around the world, and now recognition of that improvement in beyond lithium-ion technologies.

Newly Developed Fuel Cell Material Shows Improved Durability and Performance
Research, In the News, TRINA
Hard work pays off as TRINA researchers publish their research on material with improved activity and durability for PEM Fuel Cells

Toyota’s expertise in photonics led to OPTICA Traveling Lecture Program invitation from the University of Dayton
In the News, TM Spotlight, TRINA
The students chose Toyota’s Dr. Sean Rodrigues to share his expertise with the electro-optics department at the University of Dayton funding this learning opportunity through the OPTICA Traveling Lecture program.

ITL researcher received the Best Paper Award at ITS World Congress (Oct, 2022)
Research, In the News, ITL
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA ITL Researcher – Seyhan Ucar received the Best Paper Award at the ITS World Congress. Rear-end collisions are the most frequent type of collision in the USA, and most of them are due to the distracted driving behavior of follower vehicles. This paper analyzes driving data and infers movement patterns unique to … Continued

ITL researchers received the Best Poster Award at INFOCOM 2022
Research, In the News, ITL
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA ITL researchers, together with the Technical University of Berlin, received the Best Poster Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2022. This poster studies the communication path of vehicles and investigates heterogeneous communication technologies (i.e., Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Cloud (V2C)) in vehicular virtual edge computing use cases. It provides preliminary performance results for hybrid communication … Continued