18 April 2024

Abhijeet Behera successfully defended his licentiate thesis, with the title "Performance assessment of long combination vehicles using Naturalistic Driving Data" on April 16th.

Abhijeet is a PhD student at the Division of Vehicular Systems (FS) and VTI, supervised by Docent Sogol Kharrazi from LiU/VTI and Professor Erik Frisk from LiU. The Examiner was Professor Daniel Axehill from LiU, and the opponent was Docent Mats Jonasson from Chalmers.

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