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2025 

• 03/2025 [Award] Congratulations to Yaozhong Zhang on winning the Automotive Engineering (AuE) Distinguished Alumni Award!

• 02/2025 [Talk] Dr. Jia  gave a keynote talk entitled "On-road Autonomy to Off-road Autonomy" in the VIPR-GS Annual Review Meeting!

• 02/2025 [Award] Congratulations to Haotian Su on winning the College Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award of the Year!

• 01/2025 [Award] Congratulations to Yuchen Yan on winning the Outstanding Automotive Engineering (AuE) Teaching Assistant Award!

• 01/2025 [Award] Congratulations to Haotian Su on winning the Outstanding Automotive Engineering (AuE) PhD Student Award!

2024 

• 10/2024 [Talk] Dr. Jia  gave an invited talk in the Workshop on Off-Road Vehicle Autonomy in 2024 ASME MECC!

• 08/2024 [People] Congratulations to Dr. Haotian Su for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on User Acceptance of Shared Autonomous Vehicles!

• 08/2024 [Talk] Dr. Jia  gave an invited talk in 2024 Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) Meeting!

• 08/2024 [Talk] Dr. Jia was invited as a panel speaker in TRB's Annual Automated Road Transportation Symposium (ARTS)!

• 07/2024 [Talk] Dr. Jia gave an invited talk in SAE International Connected Vehicles Digital Summit!

• 04/2021 [People] Congratulations to Dr. Rahul Kumar for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on Situational Intelligence Systems for Autonomous Vehicles!

• 01/2024 [Award] Our paper won the TRB Road User Measurement and Evaluation Committee Best Paper Award in the 103rd TRB Annual Meeting!

2023 

• 11/2023 [Research] Dr. Jia was invited to give a remarks talk in "Workshop: Accelerating the Deployment of Advanced Transportation Solutions" hosted by ITS America!

• 10/2023 [Award] Our paper won the Best Paper Award 2nd Place in the IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IAVVC)!

• 06/2023 [Research] Dr. Jia was invited as a panelist in the Summit on Advancing Modeling and Simulation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles (SAMS AGV)!

• 02/2023 [Research] Dr. Jia was invited to give a talk and serve as a panelist in the UK-US Partnerships for Growth: Autonomous Vehicles and Our Journey Forward!

• 01/2023 [Award] Our paper was selected in the Most Accessed ASME Papers in 2022! 

2022 

• 12/2022 [Research] Dr. Jia showcased autonomous driving research to the NSF Director Dr.  Sethuraman Panchanathan (News, X)!

• 10/2022 [Research] GVSC VIPR-GS sponsored us a project to investigate off-road autonomous vehicles!

• 05/2022 [Research] DOE ANL sponsored us a project to continuously investigate MR-based connected human-automated mixed traffic research and on-track evaluation! 

• 03/2022 [Service] Dr. Jia serves as the associate editor of Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)! 

2021 

• 10/2021 [Award] Congratulations to Prakhar Gupta on winning the 1st place in research presentation in the 5th USDOT C2M2  Annual Fall Conference!

• 09/2021 [Award] Congratulations to Rahul Kumar on winning the 2nd Place in 2021 VIPR-GS Student Research Symposium!

• 08/2021 [Research] USDOT Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2) sponsored us a grant to investigate multimodal-AI based roadway hazard identification! 

• 07/2021 [Research] DOE sponsored us a project to investigate Automated-Connected-Electric-Shared (ACES) fleets and their deployment at Clemson! (News, News)

• 04/2021 [People] Congratulations to Dr. Yi Chen for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on Human-Robot Collaboration in Automotive Assembly!

• 04/2021 [People] Congratulations to Dr. Longxiang Guo for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on Human-Automated-Vehicle Interactions!

• 03/2021 [Research] DOE ANL sponsored us a project to investigate MR-based connected human-automated mixed traffic research and on-track evaluation! 

2020

• 12/2020 [Research] U.S. Army sponsored a Virtual Prototyping of Ground Systems (VIPR-GS) Center in CU-ICAR in partnership with Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)! (News)

• 12/2020 [Award] Congratulations to Longxiang Guo on winning the 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant!

• 11/2020 [Honor] Dr. Jia elevated to IEEE Senior Member!

• 11/2020 [Award] Congratulations to Akshatha Ramesh on winning the 2nd place in research presentation in the 4th USDOT C2M2 Annual Virtual Fall Conference!

• 11/2020 [Research] Dr. Jia gave an invited talk on Human-Autonomous-Machine Interaction in IEEE-CT RAS/CS/IAS Meeting!

• 10/2020 [Research] DOE sponsored us a project to investigate user acceptance of pooled rideshare to increase transportation system energy efficiency!  

• 09/2020 [Award] Dr. Jia won the 2020 CECAS College Faculty Collaboration Award with Drs. Vahidi and Ayalew! (News, News)

• 07/2020 [Research] USDOT Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2) sponsored us a grant to investigate cloud-based collaborative road condition monitoring!

• 03/2020 [Award] Congratulations to Longxiang Guo on winning the 2020 CECAS College Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award! (News, News)

• 02/2020 [Research] Dr. Jia gave an invited vision talk on Cyber-Human-Physical Heterogeneous Traffic in the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving!

• 01/2020 [Research] Our DOE project on energy savings by connected automated vehicles and vehicle-in-the-loop testbed was specially featured in the 2020 government report by the NSTC US DOT "Ensuring American Leadership in Automated Vehicle Technologies - Automated Vehicles 4.0"! (News, News, News, News, IDEAS)

• 01/2020 [Award] Dr. Jia was named McQueen Quattlebaum Professorship at Clemson University! (News, News, IDEAS)

• 01/2020 [Research] Bosch sponsored us the 4th grant to investigate autonomous boats education and outreach!

•   01/2020 [Award] Dr. Jia received the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award for teaching and educational excellence in vehicle automation and robotics manufacturing! (Photo) (News, News, News, News, IDEAS)

2019

• 09/2019 [Outreach] Dr. Jia serves in the advisory committee of Engineering Program in J. L. Mann High School.

• 08/2019 [People] Congratulations to Dr. Weitian Wang (Postdoc, 2016-2019) to start a tenure-track assistant professor position in Robotics at Montclair State University!

• 06/2019 [Outreach] 2019 sustainable and autonomous boat K-12 summer camp was completed in CU-ICAR, organized by Drs. Jia and Pilla! (Photos)

• 04/2019 [Research] Bosch sponsored us the 3rd grant to investigate autonomous boats education and outreach!

• 03/2019 [Research] Samsung and SC Department Commerce co-sponsored us a grant to investigate autonomous outdoor navigation!

• 02/2019 [Award] Dr. Jia received the NSF CAREER Award to investigate human-autonomous-machine interaction (HaMI)! (News, News, IDEAS)  

2018

• 12/2018 [Teaching] Student Autonomous Boat Competition was held in CU-ICAR, organized by Dr. Jia and sponsored by Bosch!  

• 07/2018 [Outreach] A one-month sustainable and autonomous boat K-12 summer camp was completed in CU-ICAR, organized by Drs. Jia and Pilla! (News, News, IEEE RAM Article) 

• 05/2018 [Research] Bosch sponsored us the 2nd grant to investigate autonomous boats with summer and fall STEM outreach for ocean waste collection!

• 04/2018 [Research] Dr. Jia gave a Best Paper Award Keynote in Connect2Car at SAE WCX18 (13,000 Attendance): "Detect Human Interventions in Autonomous Vehicles"! 

• 04/2018 [Research] Ford sponsored us a grant to investigate sensor technology for vehicle occupant detection!

• 03/2018 [Research] Dr. Jia gave a keynote at 2018 Annual BMW IDEA Summit: "Make Autonomous Vehicles Learn from Human Driving Data"!

• 03/2018 [Award] Dr. Jia received NSF CRII Award to investigate bilateral adaptation in human-vehicle interaction!

• 02/2018 [Research] Our vacuum cleaning robot and smart companion robot are featured in Clemson-BMW Vehicle Assembly Center Grand Opening! (News)

• 02/2018 [Research] CRA research is featured in "CU-ICAR is leading the way in building the automotive engineer of the future"! (News)

• 01/2018 [Service] Dr. Jia serves as the advisor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Student Branch Chapter at Clemson University!

• 01/2018 [Award] Our SAE paper won the Trevor O. Jones Outstanding Paper Award - 2017 Best SAE Automotive Electronics Paper Award! (Photo)

2017

• 12/2017 [Research] BMW sponsored us a project to investigate collaborative vacuum cleaning robot for automotive bodyshop!

• 12/2017 [Teaching] The 2017 Student Autonomous Boat Competition was held in CU-ICAR, organized by Dr. Jia and sponsored by Bosch. (News) 

• 11/2017 [Research] Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Institute sponsored us a project to investigate Smart Companion Robot for Automotive Assembly! (News)

• 10/2017 [Outreach] A workshop "Introduction to Automated Driving System Toolbox" was held in CU-ICAR, partially organized by Dr. Jia and sponsored by MathWorks. 

• 10/2017 [Research] Our Smart Shopping Robot (Video) was invited to show in the National Museum of American History. ( Newspaper Headline, News, News, News, News, News, News)      

• 09/2017 [Research] DOE sponsored us a project to investigate Boosting Energy Efficiency by Connected and Automated Vehicles! (News, News) 

• 09/2017 [Outreach] An IEEE Hands-on Arduino Workshop was held in CU-ICAR, partially organized by Dr. Jia and sponsored by IEEE. 

• 08/2017 [Research] Our smart companion robot (Video) was runner-up in the ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition!  

• 07/2017 [Research] Bosch sponsored us a grant to investigate autonomous boats and STEM education! (News) 

• 07/2017 [Research] Our autonomous car (Video) started to run in iTiC - first autonomous car made in SC! 

• 04/2017 [Teaching] Dr. Jia's course is featured in public media: "Clemson students work to build autonomous vehicles"! (News) 

• 01/2017 [Research] Our collaborative robot is featured in public media: "Clemson showcases assistive robots"! (News) 

• 01/2017 [Research] We, as a Clemson team, are proud to be a key part of the newly established $253M Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Institute and will lead the Southeast Regional Robotics Innovation Collaborative! (News, News, News, News) 

2016

• 12/2016 [Award] Our paper won the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)!

• 09/2016 [Research] BMW donated us over $800K autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) to support research at Clemson! Great appreciation to BMW! (News) 

• 01/25/2016 Clemson University Collaborative Robotics and Automation Laboratory (CRA Lab) was founded and directed by Dr. Yunyi Jia.