If the future of driving steers toward widespread automation, cars will need to communicate with each other and respond to the changing environment in milliseconds. His new research direction builds upon that prior experience and focuses it on even more important applications.”Hu started exploring computing support for autonomous driving after arriving at UT Dallas. “If successful, my research will make fully autonomous driving practical.”Hu explained that the complex demands on any autonomous driving system have thus far prevented implementation due to two primary critical technological limitations. “This project aims to rethink how to design and build computer hardware and software for future 5G-enabled self-driving cars. If successful, my research will make fully autonomous driving practical.” Dr. Yang Hu, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science“Current hardware and software platforms to support such techniques are very inflexible,” Hu said.