GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

DateDetails
1/2023 – 12/2023UFF (CRSF): AI-enabled collaborative robot systems for organic agriculture disease management. Role: Principal Investigator, $10,000 (Faculty share: $5,000)
10/2022 – 9/2024NIST: Integration of Robotics Codes and Standards into the Occupational

Safety Engineering Curriculum. Role: Principal Investigator, $99,991 (Faculty share: $75,000)

8/2022 – 7/2025NSF: Collaborative Research: NRI: Reducing Falling Risk in Robot-Assisted Retail Environments. Role: Principal Investigator, $382,479 (Faculty share: $351,743)
1/2022 – 12/2025USDA-NIFA: Collaborative Research: NRI: StickBug – an Effective Co-Robot for Precision Pollination. Role: Principal Investigator, $249,639 (Faculty share: $249,639)
1/2021 – 12/2021UF International Center Global Fellow. Role: Fellow Awardee, $5,000
10/2020 – 9/2024NSF: Collaborative Research: The Future of Remanufacturing: Human-Robot Collaboration for Disassembly of End-of-Use Products. Role: Co-Principal Investigator, $1,514,197 (Faculty share: $422,285)
 9/2020 – 8/2023NSF: NRI: Investigating the Safety Challenges of Co-drones in Future Construction Workplaces. Role: Co-Principal Investigator, $749,860 (Faculty share: $98,718) 
11/2019 – 6/2020Grant No.T42 OH008673 UNC NIOSH Education and Research Center, Promote human-robot collaboration safety. Role: Principal Investigator, $10,000 (Faculty share: $10,000) 
5/2019 – 12/2019UFF (CRSF): Wearable sensor-based intelligent system for total joint replacement to reduce readmission and improve treatment outcomes. Role: Principal Investigator, $10,000 (Faculty share: $5,000) 
11/2017 – 6/2018Grant No. T42 OH008416 Harvard NIOSH Education and Research Center, Validating the use of wearable technology and machine learning for exposure assessment of workers to uneven surfaces. Role: Co-Investigator, $14,040 (Faculty share: $14,040) 
8/2016 – 6/2018Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety/ Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Role: Trainee, $100,000