Research Grants and Projects

Worked in and led research projects involving machine learning, computer vision and pattern recognition capabilities in a wide range of applications.

Project name: Data-driven Model Discovery for Turbulent Flows

Duration: 3/2024 - 2/2026

Granted by: Villum Synergy Programme, Data-Driven Science

Role: Data Science Principal Investigator

Amount: 2,995,466 DKK 

Project name: Touch-enabled Tactile Internet Training Network and Open Source Testbed (TOAST)

Duration: 2022 – 2026

Granted by: HEU - MSCA Doctoral Network

Role: Co-Investigator (AU), Supervisor of 1 DC and co-supervisor of 1 DC

Amount: 905,364 € (total budget 2,741,623 €)

Project name: AI supported modulal resign and implementation

Duration: 9/2022 - 8/2026

Granted by: Industriens Fond, and Thomas B Thriges Fond

Role: Principal Investigator (AU team)

Amount: 4,563,000 DKK 

Project name: Physics-informed Deep Learning for Wind Farm Flow Modeling (DeepWindFarm)

Duration: 5/2021 - 4/2024

Granted by: Independent Research Fund of Denmark

Role: co-Investigator

Amount: 2,878,821 DKK 

MADE FAST is the third major project coordinated by the MADE consortium in relation with manufacturing in Denmark. FAST is an acronym for Flexibility, Agility, Sustainability and Talent and the full budget is more than a quarter of a billion DKK, where 80MDKK comes from the Danish Innovation Foundation. It is a collaboration with more than 50 companies, 5 universities and 3 GTSs.

Part projects of MaLeCI and CPS groups at ENG-AU: 

4.18: Online process control and optimization using X-ray and AI

4.07: Improving Filter Insert Performance and Quality using Simulation and Data Analytics

Duration: 2020 - 2023

Granted by: MADE FAST (more information in https://digit.au.dk/research-projects/made-fast/)

Role: Principal Investigator (AU) or co-Principal Investigator (AU)

Amount: ~4,000,000 DKK­

Project name: CA19130 - Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance - Towards a transparent financial industry

Duration: 2020 - 2023

Granted by: H2020 COST Action

Role: Management Committee Member

Amount: Travel budget for networking

Project name: Data-driven Inter-stock Predictive Analytics - DISPA

Duration: 11/2019 – 10/2022

Granted by: Independent Research Fund Denmark

Role: Principal Investigator

Amount: 2,767,987 DKK

Project name: Data-Driven Analytics for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Duration: 12/2019 – 10/2021

Granted by: AU-ST

Role: Principal Investigator 

Amount: 2,400,000 DKK

Title: Weather Forecasting using Deep Learning and Satellite Images

Duration: 2/2019 – 2/2022

Granted by: Danske Commodities (Industrial PhD)

Role: Co-Principal Investigator 

 Project name: Automatic Insect Detection (AID) 

Duration: 2018 –2020 

Granted by: Villum Fonden 

Role: External participant

Amount: 1,991,685 DKK

Title: Human Action Recognition in Dynamic Scenes 

Duration: 9/2016 – 8/2019  (realized duration 9/2016 – 7/2017)

Granted by: Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Role: Fellow 

Amount: 437,410 €

Eight (1-PY) projects through the NSF IUCRC Center for Visual Decision Informatics (Co-PI)

Topics: 

• Advanced Machine Learning for Industrial Applications II  

• Advanced Machine Learning for Industrial Applications 

• Co-Botics - Intelligent Cooperating Robots and Humans Phase II

• Unsupervised Color Constancy using Adversarial Learning 

• Co-Botics - Intelligent Cooperating Robots and Humans

• Comparative Knowledge Discovery: Analyzing, Understanding and Visualizing Ranking 

• An Evolutionary Face Recognition and Verification System 

• Let the image speak (Real time image captioning based object detection and localization)

Granted by: NSF-TEKES collaboration

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Amount: 8 x 115,000 €