Research

Research Grants 

• AI-driven personalized course material generation for automation and robotics education (05/2025-09/2026)

Funding: NDSU Foundation 

Role: Principle Investigator 

• Disaster response metaverse (DRM) for enhancing community engagement through immersive, interactive experiences (10/2024-06/2025) https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2431326 

Funding: National Science Foundation

Role: Co-Principle Investigator (PI: Dr. Jisoo Park, Indiana State University) 

• Crowd movement prediction in community events (05/2024-05/2025)

Funding: North Dakota Economic Diversification Research Fund (EDRF) 

Role: Principle Investigator 

• Real-time optimal thermal control for enhancing energy efficiency and occupants' comfort in building using IoT sensors and double deep Q-network (10/2023-09/2024)

Funding: Artificial Intelligence on Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Network (AI SUSTEIN)

Role: Principle Investigator 

• Enhanced safety of highway construction site using low cost, wearable sensor (07/2023-06/2025)

Funding: Minnesota Department of Transporation

Role: Principle Investigator 

• STEM distancing learning in Metaverse (05/2023-05/2024)

Funding: NDSU Foundation 

Role: Principle Investigator 

• Object recognition in construction sites using multiple drones (10/2021-05/2022) 

Funding: NDSU EPSCoR STEM Research and Education - Seed Award. 

Role: Co-Principle Investigator (PI: Dr. Inbae Jeong, NDSU) 

• Context-awareness for close-proximity human-robot collaboration during construction tasks (10/2021-05/2022)

Funding: ND EPSCoR STEM Research and Education - Seed Award.

Role: Principle Investigator 

• New faculty start-up award (01/2020~06/2021)

Funding: NDSU EPSCoR New Faculty Start-up Award.

Role: Principle Investigator 

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