{"id":7651,"date":"2023-04-27T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2023-04-27T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:48:05","slug":"pactrans-spinoff-wins-2022-u-s-department-of-transportation-small-business-innovation-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/pactrans-spinoff-wins-2022-u-s-department-of-transportation-small-business-innovation-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PacTrans Spinoff wins 2022 U.S. Department of Transportation Small Business Innovation Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SBIR2-1-1024x404.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SBIR2-1-1024x404.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SBIR2-1-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SBIR2-1-768x303.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SBIR2-1-97x38.jpg 97w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SBIR2-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PacTrans&#8217; recent spinoff company, AIWaysion, was a recent recipient of the 2022 U.S. Department of Transportation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award. The project, titled, <em>Edge Server-Based AI Application for Dilemma Zone and Traffic Conflict<\/em>, falls under the SBIR topic of, \u201cAI Video Analysis of Dilemma Zone and Other Conflicts at Signal Controlled Intersections (22-FH2).\u201d The SBIR program is highly competitive and provides contracts to U.S. small businesses to pursue research on and develop innovative solutions to our nation\u2019s transportation challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The PI for this project is Dr. Wei Sun, who was formerly a postdoc in the UW STAR Lab and helped the lab to move a STAR Lab-developed sensor suite from research, to patenting, and then into a spinoff company. Dr. Sun is now the CEO of that company, AIWaysion. They develop next-generation Connected Vehicle technology and provide Smart Mobility Solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Edge Computing technologies for safer and more efficient transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PacTrans&#8217; recent spinoff company, AIWaysion, was a recent recipient of the 2022 U.S. Department of Transportation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award. The project, titled, Edge Server-Based AI Application for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-partnerships-and-tech-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7653,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}