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June 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Siamese Network with Dual Attention for EEG-Driven Social Learning: Bridging the Human-Robot Gap in Long-Tail Autonomous Driving.” has been accepted for publication in Expert Systems with Applications. Elsevier.
May 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Seeing with Partial Certainty: Conformal Prediction for Robotic Scene Recognition in Built Environments." was selected to receive the Best Paper Award at the 2025 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE).
April 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Socially-Aware Shared Control Navigation for Assistive Mobile Robots in the Built Environment.” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering . ASCE.
April 2025: SICIS and LIVE research on shared control in powered wheelchairs was featured in Michigan Engineering. The article can be downloaded here. Accompanying video can be watched here.
April 2025: SICIS and LIVE participate in Q&A about Construction Automation.. The article can be downloaded here.
February 2025: SICIS and LIVE research on shared control in powered wheelchairs was featured in Tech Xplore. The article can be downloaded here.
January 2025: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Hands-free Crowdsensing of Accessibility Barriers in Sidewalk Infrastructure: A Brain-Computer Interface Approach.” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Infrastructure Systems . ASCE.
October 2024: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Integrating Large Language Models with Multimodal Virtual Reality Interfaces to Support Collaborative Human–Robot Construction Work” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. ASCE.
July 2024: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Hierarchical Construction Task Decomposition and Robot Imitation Learning in an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment ." was selected to receive the Best Paper Award at the 2024 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE).
June 2024: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Enabling BIM-Driven Robotic Construction Workflows with Closed-Loop Digital Twins ." has been accepted for publication in Computers in industry. Elsevier.
May 2024: Congratulations to SICIS and LIVE PhD student Somin Park for successfully completing her PhD studies.
May 2024: Congratulations to LIVE and SICIS PhD student Hongrui Yu for successfully completing her PhD studies. Dr. Yu will be joining Virginia Tech starting August 2024.
April 2024: Prof. Menassa and Prof. Kamat awarded the University of Michigan Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize for project titled “Digital Sandbox for Experiential Model-Based Engineering Education”. Learn more here.
