Projects

As Principal Investigator

1. NAVY (sub-contract from Global Technology Connection, Inc.), “SBIR Phase I: MB.CI: Model-Based Point Cloud Inspection”, $140,000 (UGA share $23k), Role: PI, Senior Personnel: Wenzhan Song, Percentage Share (100%, $23k), TBD

2. NSF, “Ethical Industry 4.0: Embedding Legality, Integrity and Accountability in Digital Manufacturing Ecosystems”, $565,778, Role: PI, Co-PIs: Wenyao Xu, Chi Zhou, Percentage Share (33%, $189k), 12/23-11/26

3. NYNJ Occupational Safety & Health Center, “A privacy-preserved approach for warehouse workers’ upper extremity fatigue prediction in dynamic tasks”, $12,000, Role: PI, Co-PI: Lora Cavuoto, Percentage Share (50%, $6k), 07/23-06/24

4. NSF, “FMRG: Cyber: Cyber-coordinated Analytical Framework for Multi-stage Distributed Future Manufacturing Systems”, $2,333,085 + 40,000 REU Supplement, Role: PI, Co-PIs: Chi Zhou, Wenyao Xu, Rong Pan (subcontract at ASU), and Giulia Pedrielli (subcontract at ASU), Percentage Share (20%, $467k + 8k REU Supplement), 11/21-10/25

5. NYNJ Occupational Safety & Health Center, “Investigation of Electric and Gas Workers' Fatigue and Risk via Real-time Wearable Sensor Data Segmentation, Recognition and Monitoring”, $11,739, Role: PI, Co-PI: Lora Cavuoto, Percentage Share (50%, $6k), 07/21-06/23

6. NYNJ Occupational Safety & Health Center, “A Data-driven Framework for Task Recognition via Wearable Sensors for Electric and Gas Workers”, $11,866, Role: PI, Co-PI: Lora Cavuoto, Percentage Share (50%, $6k), 07/2020 – 06/2022

7. UB Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART), “AMLens: Interpretable and Interactive Human-technology Partnership for Additive Manufacturing Quality Excellence”, $25,000, Role: PI, Co-PI: Chi Zhou, Ann Bisantz, Vojislav Kalanovic, Kevin Hulme, Percentage Share (25%, $6k), 9/2018 – 8/2019 

As Co-Principal Investigator 

1. USDA, “Advanced Manufacturing Opportunities to Enhance Pecan Shelling Processing”, $2,668,200, Role: Senior Personnel, PI: Beshoy Morkos, Percentage Share (10%), 06/21-05/26

2. MxD (subcontract from ARVIST), “Proactive worker safety for Industry 4.0 using AI”, $905,926 (UB share $208,894, including 50% cost share), Role: Co-PI, PI: Lora Cavuoto, Percentage Share (40%, $84k, including 50% cost share), 06/23-06/24

3. NSF, “CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Infrastructure Cybersecurity Curriculum Development and Training for Advanced Manufacturing Research Workforce”, $499,983, Role: Co-PI, PI: Wenyao Xu, Percentage Share (25%, $125k), 01/23-12/26 

4. National Institute Occupational Safety & Health, “Reliability Modeling of Shoulder Fatigue and Recovery for Warehouse Operators Performing Dynamic Tasks”, $361,491, Role: Co-PI, PI: Lora Cavuoto, Percentage Share (33.3%, $120k), 09/2020 – 09/2023  

5. General Electric Global Research, “Testing the Soteria Worker Safety System”, $31,929, Role: Co-PI, PI: Lora Cavuoto, Percentage Share (40%, $12k), 01/2020 – 12/2020

6. Buffalo Blue Sky, “Exploring Ethical 3D Printing”, $40,000, Role: Co-PI, PI: Wenyao Xu, Percentage Share (33.3%, $13k), 07/2018 – 06/2020 

7. UB Innovative Micro-Programs Accelerating Collaboration in Themes (IMPACT), “Smart 2D Material Synthesis: Data and Knowledge-driven MoS2 Growth, Experimental Design, Modeling, and Control”, $30,000, Role: Co-PI, PI: Minghui Zheng, Percentage Share (33.3%, $10k), 01/2018 – 01/2019