21 January 2025

Theodor Westny successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Context-Aware Behaviour Prediction for Autonomous Driving" on January 10.

Westny is a PhD student in Vehicle Systems and was supervised by Erik Frisk, Professor at Linköping University. The opponent was Julian Kooij, Associate Professor at the Intelligent Vehicles Group, Cognitive Robotics Department, Delft University of Technology.

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