06/2024: Paper “Advancing Orchard Fruit Detection: An Innovative Agricultural Foundation Model Approach” received a 2024 ITSC Technical Community Meeting Paper Award
05/2023: Paper “Deep Data Augmentation for Weed Recognition Enhancement: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model and Transfer Learning Based Approach” won the ITSC Technical Community Meeting Paper Awards
10/2022: Gave an invited talk on “PowerNet: Deep Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Scalable Powergrid Control” at 2022 INFORMS
10/2022: Gave a seminar on “Internet of Mobility: Cloud-Facilitated Privacy-Aware Collaborative Sensing and Controls” at University of Texas at Austin
Research Experience
09/2024: Served as a co-Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society AdHoc Committee on Autonomous Vehicles
08/2024: Project "CPS: Medium: Ensure Privacy and Truthfulness in Self-interested Multi-agent Cyber-physical Systems" funded by the NSF CPS program in collaboration with Dr. Yongqiang Wang from Clemson University
08/2023: Delivered a distinguished lecture talk at the 5th International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence (FAFI 2023)
07/2023: Project "Collaborative Research: Scalable Data-Enabled Predictive Control for Heterogeneous Mixed Traffic Systems" funded by NSF in collaboration with Prof. Yang Zheng at University of California at San Diego
05/2023: Team's development of "A New Robotic Apple Harvesting Technology" won the 2023 Rain Bird Engineering Concept of the Year Award
Background
Red Cedar Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University. Director, Robotics and Intelligent Vehicle Automation Lab (RIVAL).