I am Maneesha Vanga, a Ph.D. student in Computational Science (Computer Science) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). My research focuses on autonomous vehicles, cooperative driving automation, robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on infrastructure-assisted percpetion and safety-critical transportation systems. I develop and experimentally evaluate AI-based autonomous driving frameworks usng 1/10-scale vehicle platforms integrated with ROS 2, LiDAR, cameras, and edge computing. My goal is to advance practical AI solutions that improve the safety and reliability of autonomous transportation systems.