Dr. Ting Yuan is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA within the Autonomous Driving Department, where his fields of endeavor lie in detection, classification and tracking of moving/static objects using information from camera, Radar and Lidar systems, as well as data fusion for the multi-sensor systems. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT in 2013.  His research interests include target tracking, data fusion and multiple-model analysis.

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