Barham Farraj | Robotics Engineering | Best Researcher Award

Mr. Barham Farraj | Robotics Engineering | Best Researcher Award

Mr. Barham Farraj | kromberg & schubert | Slovakia 

The researcher is a highly motivated and results-oriented Service and Development Engineer specializing in robotics, LiDAR systems, and autonomous driving technologies. His work focuses on bridging the gap between development and practical deployment of intelligent robotic systems, with a strong emphasis on perception, mapping, and navigation using LiDAR-based solutions. He has demonstrated exceptional technical expertise through hands-on experience at the Vehicle Research Center in Győr, Hungary, contributing significantly to autonomous vehicle research, system integration, and performance optimization. A key highlight of his research is the development of a real-time LiDAR-based urban road and sidewalk detection system for autonomous vehicles. This project integrates advanced LiDAR sensing with ROS2, C++, Python, and MATLAB, enabling robust environmental perception and accurate object classification in complex urban settings. By leveraging point cloud processing and machine learning techniques, his work enhances vehicle awareness, paving the way for safer and more efficient autonomous navigation. He has also contributed to major academic and industrial initiatives, including building and programming autonomous racing vehicles for international competitions such as RoboRacer and F1TENTH, and leading simulation-based testing in Gazebo and Foxglove environments. His research extends to transforming ROS1-based algorithms into ROS2 for improved modularity and scalability across multi-vehicle systems. In his current role at Kromberg & Schubert Automotive, Slovakia, he develops embedded applications and perception systems for industrial mobile platforms, integrating sensor data and diagnostics for enhanced reliability. His teaching and mentoring roles at Széchenyi István University reflect his dedication to knowledge transfer and educational impact in autonomous robotics. Through his combined research, engineering practice, and leadership, he has contributed to advancing LiDAR-driven perception, real-time mapping, and autonomous vehicle intelligence, marking him as a promising innovator in the field of intelligent mobility and robotic automation.

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Featured Publications 

Barham Farraj, B. J., Alabdallah, A., Unger, M., & Horváth, E. (2025, October 31). Enhancing autonomous navigation: Real-time LiDAR detection of roads and sidewalks in ROS 2. Engineering Proceedings, 113(24). https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2025113024

Krecht, R., Alabdallah, A. M. A., & Barham Farraj, B. J. (2025, October 28). Evaluation of SLAM methods for small-scale autonomous racing vehicles. Engineering Proceedings, 113(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2025113009

Alabdallah, A., Barham Farraj, B. J., & Horváth, E. (2025, October 28). ROS 2-based framework for semi-automatic vector map creation in autonomous driving systems. Engineering Proceedings, 113(13). https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2025113013

Tengping Jiang | Robotics Engineering | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Tengping Jiang | Robotics Engineering | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Tengping Jiang | Nanjing Normal University | China

Dr. Tengping Jiang is an accomplished researcher and Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Department of Surveying and Mapping Engineering. His research focuses on 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, point cloud processing, and deep learning-based computer vision, with applications spanning intelligent transportation systems, digital twin cities, and plant phenotyping. Dr. Jiang earned his Ph.D. from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, under the supervision of Prof. Bisheng Yang, and later conducted visiting research at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, guided by Prof. Wenjun Zeng (IEEE Fellow). His scholarly contributions have advanced the integration of artificial intelligence with geospatial technologies, particularly through the development of innovative neural network architectures for semantic segmentation and structural feature extraction from LiDAR and urban scene point clouds. His highly cited works, published in leading journals such as ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, include groundbreaking studies like RailSeg, LWSNet, and ShrimpSeg, which address complex challenges in automated urban and environmental data interpretation. Dr. Jiang has received multiple prestigious research grants, including the NSFC Young Scientists Fund (2025–2027) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province Young Scientists Fund (2024–2027). His projects emphasize fine-grained scene extraction, LiDAR data fusion, and energy-efficient modeling of urban environments. Beyond research, Dr. Jiang contributes extensively to academic service, serving on the Youth Editorial Boards of Plant Phenotype, Agriculture Communications, and Climate Smart Agriculture, and as a reviewer for top-tier conferences like CVPR and NeurIPS. Through his interdisciplinary expertise, Dr. Jiang continues to push the boundaries of 3D geospatial intelligence and its transformative applications in smart and sustainable cities.

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Featured Publications 

Jiang, T., Wang, Y., Liu, S., Zhang, Q., Zhao, L., & Sun, J. (2023). Instance recognition of street trees from urban point clouds using a three-stage neural network. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 109, 305–334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2023.04.010

Jiang, T., Zhang, Q., Liu, S., Liang, C., Dai, L., Zhang, Z., Sun, J., & Wang, Y. (2023). LWSNet: A point-based segmentation network for leaf–wood separation of individual trees. Forests, 14(7), 1303. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14071303

Jiang, T., Liu, S., Zhang, Q., Xu, X., Sun, J., & Wang, Y. (2023, September). Segmentation of individual trees in urban MLS point clouds using a deep learning framework based on cylindrical convolution network. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 123, 103473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103473

Jiang, T., Yang, B., Wang, Y., Dai, L., Qiu, B., Liu, S., Li, S., Zhang, Q., Jin, X., & Zeng, W. (2023). RailSeg: Learning local–global feature aggregation with contextual information for railway point cloud semantic segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, 5704929. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3319950

Jiang, T., Wang, Y., Zhang, Z., Liu, S., Dai, L., Yang, Y., Jin, X., & Zeng, W. (2023). Extracting 3-D structural lines of buildings from ALS point clouds using graph neural network embedded with corner information. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, 5702615. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3278589