Holder of 3 U.S. patents on fault detection/isolation systems and battery condition estimation methods
Recipient of the 2016 IBM Faculty Award
Principal Investigator (PI) of the 2015 NSF-funded project 'CPS:Synergy: Security of Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems with Connected Vehicle Applications'
Best Paper and Outstanding Presentation Award at FISITA 2004 World Congress in Future Automotive Technologies
Best Paper Presentation in Vehicle Control II session at the 2003 American Control Conference
Outstanding Ph.D. student, inducted into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society at The Ohio State University (May 15, 2001)
Awarded 'The Best and Youngest Graduate in Computer Engineering' at the University of Genoa for academic year 1995/96
Background
Professor of Automotive Engineering at Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR)
Joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University
Research interests: functional safety, security, control, and optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Focuses on next-generation high-performance and resilient connected and automated systems, with emphasis on theoretical formulation and virtual/hardware-in-the-loop validation