University Awards
- 2025: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
- 2025: College of Engineering Lumley Research Award, The Ohio State University
- 2024: OSU Strategic Research Initiative Award (Co-PI, $100,000)
- 2024: OSU Kirwan Institute SPARK Grant (Lead-PI, $10,000)
- 2024: Best Paper Award – IEEE ACSOS
- 2023: College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, Wayne State University
- 2022: College of Engineering Faculty Research Excellence Award, Wayne State University
- 2021: WSU-TAC Award for CSC4996 Robotics Section (Lead-Faculty, $8,600)
Leading Sponsored Research
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VisionWay: Accessibility-aware Path Selection for Wayfinding
- Role: Corresponding PI
- Amount Awarded: $2,724,189
- Period: 09/2025 – 08/2030
- Official NIH Page: NIH
Convergence Accelerator Track H: Leveraging Human-Centered AI Microtransit to Ameliorate Spatiotemporal Mismatch between Housing and Employment for Persons with Disabilities.
- Role: Lead PI
- Amount Awarded: $613,621.00
- Period: 12/2022 – 11/2024
- Official NSF Page: NSF
CAREER: Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Mobile Augmented Reality Apps.
CRII: CSR: Energy-Aware Coordination and Management of Multi-Purpose Autonomous Robots for Maintained Continuity of Operations and Long Battery Lifetime.
- Role: Sole-PI
- Amount Awarded: $175,000.00
- Period: 01/2020 – 01/2023
- Official NSF Page: NSF
- Project Website: AFM
Other Sponsored Research
- 2023: IUCRC Phase I Wayne State University: Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility (eCAT) – Co-PI, $1,050,000, 3 years
- 2021: SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Leveraging AI-assist Microtransit to Ameliorate Spatiotemporal Mismatch between Housing and Employment – Co-PI, $49,898, 1 year
- 2021: Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Scaling Autonomous Vehicle Systems at the Edge: from On-Board Processing to Cloud Infrastructure – Co-PI, $163,796, 1 year