Resume
Academic Achievements
- 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).