Matthew Palmer, Senior Research Associate

Since joining VTTI as Senior Research Associate, Matthew Palmer has led transportation technology and safety research projects both as a PI and technical expert. Matthew has 24 years of leading applied R&D projects focused on sensor and laboratory grade instrumentation development as well as performance measurement of those systems. Matthew’s experience includes developing perception algorithms and optical data collection systems, analyzing autonomous perception sensors and systems, development of wireless sensors and instrumentation, and other lighting measurement instruments. He has developed many testing approaches and protocols for a variety of data collection and analysis. Matthew has direct experience in collecting data from multiple LiDAR, Radar, cameras, spectrometers, illuminance and luminance sensors, global positioning systems, and integration of multiple sensors into a single data acquisition.

Mr. Palmer has a broad engineering and science background that includes electrical engineering, optical engineering, sensing and instrumentation engineering that goes far beyond his formal education. His expertise includes extensive MATLAB and LabView programming, linear and non-linear optics, analog and digital electronics, FPGAs, digital signal processing, harsh environment instrumentation design (nuclear reactor, gas-turbine combustion, energetic materials), structural mechanics (classical and non-linear), material science, carbonaceous nanomaterials, and composite materials. Mr. Palmer has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and has 45 publications.

Contact

• 540-231-6279
• mpalmer@vtti.vt.edu