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Nick-Barua/README.md

Dr. Nick Barua | ニック・バルア 🇯🇵 🇬🇧

ORCID Google Scholar ResearchGate SSRN LinkedIn GitHub

Physicist · C-Suite Executive · Researcher | Based in Hyogo, Japan 🇯🇵 BSc Physics — Yale University · MSc Astrophysics — Caltech · PhD — University of Hertfordshire

I am a physicist and C-suite executive specializing in the convergence of Space Intelligence, Automotive Safety, and Global Investment Strategy. My research utilizes advanced AI architectures—specifically YOLOv7 and RNNs—to solve complex safety and geospatial challenges.


🏛 Current Leadership & Affiliations

🎓 Academic

🏢 Executive


🔬 2025–2026 Research Focus: AFODS & ISO 26262

My primary research addresses the "classification gap" for road users in non-upright postures—those fallen due to medical emergencies, intoxication, or primary collisions. By bridging Forensic Pathology with Functional Safety, we move from analyzing fatalities to proactive harm prevention.

🛠 Key Technical Breakthroughs

  • Multi-Modal Redundancy: Fuses LWIR Thermal (biological signatures of 36.5–37.5°C), NIR Stereo, and Ultrasonic sensors for all-weather detection reliability.
  • Safety Compliance: Maps fallen-pedestrian hazards to ASIL C-D safety goals under ISO 26262 (Severity S3 / Exposure E3 / Controllability C0).
  • Architecture: Utilizes YOLOv7-Tiny for spatial detection (mAP@0.5: 91.3%) and RNN/Kalman filters for predictive kinematics — generating alerts 0.3–0.8s before ground contact.
  • Explainable AI (XAI): Integrated SHAP values provide a forensic audit trail admissible in legal and post-incident reconstruction proceedings.
  • Acoustic Verification: MFCC-based classification distinguishes fall acoustic signatures from road noise, reducing false positives.

📊 Performance Benchmarks

Condition TPR (%) mAP@0.5 (%) Latency (ms)
Daytime, Clear 98.2 91.3 38
Night, Dry Road 95.6 88.7 42
Night, Rain 89.4 83.1 51
Baseline (Monocular, Night) 21.4 N/A N/A

📄 Sources: MDPI Vehicles 2025


🧩 Systemic Architecture & Research Synergy

My research portfolio is unified by High-Fidelity Signal Reconstruction and Dynamic Risk Assessment. I specialize in extracting actionable truth from high-entropy environments—from the galactic scale to urban safety.

🔭 The Kinematic Safety Framework (KSF)

This flagship framework transposes the mathematical rigor of Galactic Archaeology into a proactive engine for terrestrial and aerial safety.

  • [cite_start]Logic: Utilizes Phase-Space Analysis $(x, v)$ to detect human falls as a kinematic deconvolution[cite: 13, 15, 47, 49].
  • [cite_start]Performance: Achieves a 98.2% True Positive Rate (TPR) in high-entropy environments[cite: 18, 53].
  • [cite_start]Prediction: Generates alerts 0.3s–0.8s before ground contact occurs[cite: 16, 50].
  • [cite_start]Risk Model: Proprietary RASA model: $R(t) = \alpha \cdot U_s(t) + \beta \cdot L_c(t)$.

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Explore the Documentation: > 📖 Technical Wiki | 📄 Citable Whitepaper (Zenodo DOI)


📚 Selected Publications

🌌 Astrophysics & Galactic Evolution

  • Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: Starlight Synthesis Algorithm | Lead Author | IJAA · DOI: 10.4236/ijaa.2022.121005
  • Unveiling Galactic Assembly: Chemo-Kinematic Insights from Stellar Absorptions | Lead Author | SSRN
  • Galactic Paleontology: Reconstructing Accretion Events with Chemo-Dynamical Signatures | Lead Author | SSRN
  • Galactic Archaeology: A Chemo-Kinematic Review of the Milky Way's Hierarchical Assembly | Lead Author | SSRN

🛰 Geospatial Intelligence & UAV

  • Global Homeland Security Satellite Imagery Market: Strategic Outlook and Growth Trajectories | Lead Author | SSRN
  • SATCOM, The Future UAV Communication Link | Lead Author | SSRN

🚗 Automotive Technology & AI Safety

🔗 This body of work forms a unified 4-paper research program on AI-driven road safety:

# Title Venue Role
1 Advanced Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion System for Detecting Falling Humans MDPI Vehicles Technical Foundation
2 From Post-Mortem to Prevention: Redefining "Invisible" Pedestrians through ISO 26262 and Multi-Modal AI SSRN Problem Framing
3 Integrated Safety Architectures: Leveraging Multi-Modal AI and ISO 26262 to Protect Vulnerable Road Users SSRN System Architecture
4 Sudden Incapacitation or Death at the Wheel SSRN Clinical HARA for AFODS
  • Mechanisms, Modelling, and Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation in EVs | Lead Author | SSRN
  • Enhancing Audio Classification Through MFCC Feature Extraction and Data Augmentation with CNN and RNN Models | Co-Author | SAI

🏥 Telemedicine & Healthcare

  • Digital Transformation (DX) Impact of Telemedicine on Healthcare Services Around the World and Japan | Lead Author | ResearchGate

📂 Featured Repositories

Category Repository Description
AI & Safety From-Post-Mortem-to-Prevention-AFODS ISO 26262-aligned AFODS framework — 98.2% TPR for fallen pedestrian detection (Jan 2026)
AI & Safety sensor-fusion-fall-detection Multi-modal sensor fusion for human fall detection (MDPI Vehicles, 2025)
AI & Safety AFODS-Operational-Sequence Five-stage data processing pipeline for AFODS architecture
Physics starlight-synthesis-algorithm Galactic velocity dispersion & spectral synthesis (IJAA, 2022)
Geospatial nsi-satellite-pipeline Satellite data processing architecture for NSI

🏆 Awards & Recognition

Year Award Presented By
2026 Top 10 Visionary Entrepreneurs Shaping the Future CEO Monthly
2025 Global CEO Excellence Awards — Winner CEO Monthly
2022 Most Innovative Executive / CEO of the Year — Japan APAC Insider

📬 Connect & Verify

Platform Link
🟢 ORCID 0000-0003-4641-0112
🎓 Google Scholar Nick Barua
🔬 ResearchGate Nick-Barua
🗾 Researchmap Japan nickbarua
💼 LinkedIn nickbarua
🏢 AN Holdings anholdings.co

"Advancing humanity through the convergence of space-intelligence and terrestrial safety."

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  1. Advanced-Multi-Modal-Sensor-Fusion-System-for-Detecting-Falling-Humans Advanced-Multi-Modal-Sensor-Fusion-System-for-Detecting-Falling-Humans Public

    Advanced multi-modal system for detecting falling humans using LWIR, NIR, and Ultrasonic fusion.

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  2. Formation-and-Evolution-of-Galaxies-Starlight-Synthesis-Algorithm Formation-and-Evolution-of-Galaxies-Starlight-Synthesis-Algorithm Public

    Implementation of starlight synthesis algorithms for galactic evolution analysis.

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  3. Integrated-Safety-Architectures-Leveraging-Multi-Modal-AI-and-ISO-26262-to-Protect-Vulnerable-Road Integrated-Safety-Architectures-Leveraging-Multi-Modal-AI-and-ISO-26262-to-Protect-Vulnerable-Road Public

    Technical implementation of integrated safety architectures for vulnerable road users.

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  4. From-Post-Mortem-to-Prevention-AFODS From-Post-Mortem-to-Prevention-AFODS Public

    2026 Flagship: ISO 26262-aligned framework redefining "invisible" pedestrians with 98.2% TPR.

  5. Sudden-Incapacitation-or-Death-at-the-Wheel Sudden-Incapacitation-or-Death-at-the-Wheel Public

    2025/2026 Study: Analysis of 1,258 incidents to predict catastrophic multi-vehicle collisions.

  6. Unveiling-Galactic-Assembly-Chemo-Kinematic-Insights-from-Stellar-Absorptions Unveiling-Galactic-Assembly-Chemo-Kinematic-Insights-from-Stellar-Absorptions Public

    Implementation of the Starlight Synthesis Algorithm, a numerical framework for reconstructing galactic formation and evolution by decomposing integrated stellar light into distinct generational pop…