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• 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

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• July 2024:  SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "A Shared Autonomy based Wheelchair Navigation Stack considering User Preference and Control." 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.

• March 2024: SICIS and  LIVE receive funding from the USDOT Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) for project entitled “COVERT: Cognitive Internet of Vulnerable Road Users in Traffic .”

• March 2024: Congratulations to LIVE and SICIS PhD student Hongrui Yu for receiving the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the Rackham Graduate School. 

• February 2024: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled "Natural Language Instructions for Intuitive Human Interaction with Robotic Assistants in Field Construction Work." has been accepted for publication in Automation in Construction. Elsevier.

• January 2024: SICIS and LIVE paper entitled “Cloud-Based Hierarchical Imitation Learning for Scalable Transfer of Construction Skills from Human Workers to Assisting Robots.” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. ASCE.