Research Profile

External Funding

Total Funding: $2.25 Million; Served as principal investigator (PI) on 10 external research projects with a total external funding of $1.75 Million, and co-PI on 4 external research projects with a total external funding of $500,000; personal share about $1.41 Million excluding cost share:

• 1. PI (100%), “Crystal Growing Furnace Process Monitoring and Root Cause Diagnosis,” Sponsor: JSME Co. Ltd., Date: 5/1/2012 – 8/31/2013 

  2. Co-PI (20%), “Lightweight Heavy Truck Chassis Redesign,” Sponsor: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative / Metalsa, Date: 7/1/2012 – 6/30/2013 (PI: Jaime Camelio, 50%, Co-PI: Chris Williams, 30%)

  3. PI (70%), Modeling and Control in Advanced Manufacturing Processes (Seven Research Topics in Thermal Spray Coating, Additive Manufacturing and Machining), Sponsor: Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Date: 2/4/2013-3/31/2017 (Co-PI: Xinwei Deng, 30%)

  4. PI (84%), Fiber Manufacturing Modeling, Control and Visualization (Two Phases), Sponsor: Jiyi Technology Co. Ltd., Date: 7/10/2013-12/31/2016 (Co-PI: Xinwei Deng, 16%)

  5. PI (50%), “Collaborative Research: Experimental Design and Analysis of Quantitative-Qualitative Responses in Manufacturing and Biomedical Systems,” Sponsor: National Science Foundation, CMMI-1435996, Date: 9/1/2014-8/31/2018 (Co-PI: Xinwei Deng, 50%, Collaborative project with Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT has a share of budget)

  6. Co-PI (30%), “GOALI: Real-Time Detection and Mitigation of Incipient Anomalies in Additive Manufacturing Processes Using Online In situ Sensing and Multi-Sensor Fusion,” Sponsor: National Science Foundation, CMMI-1436592, Date: 9/1/2014-8/31/2018 (PI: Zhenyu Kong, 40%, Co-PIs: Jaime Camelio, 15%, Chris Williams, 15%)

  7. PI (100%), “Parker Hannifin Image Processing,” Sponsor: Parker Hannifin Co., Date: 6/16/2015-12/31/2015

  8. PI (50%), “Modeling and Quality Control for Manufacturing Big Data System,” Sponsor: Procter and Gamble Company, Date: 7/15/2015-12/24/2016

  9. Co-PI (50%), “Enterprise Prognostic Health Management: Past, Present, and Future,” Sponsor: American Air Liquide, Inc. / Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution, Date: 4/15/2016-6/30/2017 (PI: Kimberly Ellis, 50%)

  10. PI (25%), “Data-driven Modeling and Optimization for Energy-Smart Manufacturing,” Sponsor: National Science Foundation, CMMI-1634867, Date: 9/1/2016-8/31/2019 (Co-PIs: Yili Hong, 25%, Xinwei Deng, 25%, and Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh, 25%)

  11. PI (100%), “Communication and Computing Software Development Tools for Industrial Big Data in Smart Manufacturing,” Sponsor: Industrial Data Automation, Date: 9/1/2017-8/31/2019

  12. PI (100%), “Data Value in Digital Factories of Optical Fiber Manufacturing,” Sponsor: Jiyi Technology Co. Ltd., Date: 12/1/2017-11/30/2018

  13. Co-PI (50%), “Engine Data Mining and Establishment of Sensitivities between Various Types of Instrumentation Across an Engine”, Sponsor: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Date: 1/1/2018-9/30/2018

  14. PI (100%), “Data Analytics for Operation Excellence in New Retails,” Sponsor: Jiyi Technology Co. Ltd., Date: 5/1/2018-7/31/2021

1. PI (50%), “Association Rule Learning from Legal Text to Predict Potential Trade Law Violation from Additively Manufactured Parts: Case Study,” Sponsor: Northrop-Grumman Corporation (NGC), Date: 1/22/2019-8/17/2019 (Co-PI: SungKu Kang, 50%)

2. Co-PI (50%), “EAGER: AM: CoFedAI: Cost-sensitive Federated AI for Smart Manufacturing Data-Sharing,” Sponsor: National Science Foundation, CMMI- 2208864, Amount: 300,000, Date: 2/1/2022-1/31/2024 (PI: Ismini Lourentzou, 50%)