Biography

Brendan Morris is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UNLV who specializes in computer vision, connected automated vehicles (CAVs), and intelligent systems.

He serves as director of the Real Time Intelligent Systems Lab, where his research has spanned vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and the application of computer vision to assess how well humans perform tasks like golfing or playing the piano.

Morris leads the NSF-funded Smart Cities program at UNLV, which has introduced dozens of undergraduate college students to research and encourages advanced study in intelligent transportation systems, automated vehicles, and V2X communication. As co-director of the university's Transportation Research Center, Morris has worked on projects to make autonomous vehicles safer. Recent projects include equipping the infrastructure around UNLV campus intersections with advanced sensors to monitor and model the movement of pedestrians and vehicles, and developing a Dynamic Rumble Strips system to address distracted driving and help prevent rising pedestrian fatalities in Nevada.

He also applies his computer vision expertise to solve problems in unmanned aerial systems technology. His expertise in drones includes image processing, object detection and recognition, selective filtering, and sense and avoid technology. He’s currently leveraging this expertise to advance machine learning and remote sensing technologies to help improve wildfire detection.