ACCESS Laboratory Members

Moahhamd Zakaria received his Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in 2017. HE received his M.S degree from North Carolina A&T State University in 2025. His research interests include “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,” “Computer vision,” and “Bridge Inspection”. He is a member of Autonomous Cooperative Control of Emergent Systems of Systems (ACCESS) Lab.

• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University, 2025.

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Energy and Natural Resources , 2018.

• Zakaria, Mohammed, Tesfamichael Getahun, and Ali Karimoddini. "Traffic Sign Dataset for Connected and Automated Vehicle Operations in Rural Areas," Data in Brief (2025): 112280.

• M. Tavasoli, A. Sarrafzadeh, M. Khaleghi, M. Zakaria, H. B. Pasandi and A. Karimoddini, "Data  Communication Challenges of Connected and Automated Vehicles in Rural Areas," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 29220-29251, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3539598.

• Zakaria, M., Getahun, T., & Karimoddini, A. (2025). “AI-Enabled Traffic Sign Detection for Rural Operations of Connected and Automated Vehicles.” 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Driving and Smart Transportation, Accepted.

• Mohammed Zakaria, Tesfamichael Getahun, Mahsa Tavasoli, Venktesh Pandey, Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh, "Supporting Infrastructure for Adoption of Automated Vehicles in Rural Areas: A Review of Standards and Guidelines," Under review.

• Mohammed Zakaria, Tesfamichael Getahun and Ali Karimoddini, "End-to-End Data Acquisition for Physical and Digital Roadway Infrastructure Assessment," Under development.