Jose Paolo Talusan

Dr. Jose Paolo Talusan is a Research Scientist at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, specializing in smart transportation systems, distributed computing, and cyber-physical systems. He is affiliated with ScopeLab, a research group focused on smart cyber-physical systems.

• Education: PhD from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (2020)

Research Interests: His work addresses challenges in urban mobility through middleware architectures, optimization algorithms, and machine learning. Key areas include incident detection in transportation systems, privacy-preserving route planning, and vehicle-to-building charging optimization.

Publication Trends: Recent publications focus on real-time transit optimization (2024-2025), leveraging reinforcement learning for heterogeneous agents in vehicle-to-building systems, and privacy-aware route planning in smart cities. His work integrates IoT, edge computing, and graph neural networks to tackle imbalanced data and sparsity issues in transit analytics.

Labs & Teams: Actively contributes to ScopeLab at Vanderbilt University, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects with researchers in computer science, electrical engineering, and urban planning.