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PROJECTS
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NASA, Risk Assessment of Coastal Communities in the Face of Sea Level Rise and Land Subsidence using NASA Earth Observations
Role: NCAT PI , with Morgan State University (Lead) and University of Cincinnati, 2025 - 2028
NSF, Multi Modal Data Fusion for Flood Mapping and Damage Assessment
Role: PI with Lehigh University, 2024 - 2027
USDA, Data-driven high-throughput multi-scale sensing for tomato disease phenotyping under field conditions
Role: NCAT PI, with Cornell University (Lead) and NC State University , 2024 -2027
NC Collaboratory, AI-based NC Wetland Inventory
Role: PI , 2024 -2025
Microsoft, AI-Based Traffic Monitoring System using Generative Pre-trained Transformer Models and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Role: PI, 2023 - 2025
Developing collaboration between Lehigh University and NC A &T, Multi-modal Machine learning for Rapid Post-Disaster Response and Recovery
Role: Co-Lead with Lehigh University (Co-Lead), 2023 - 2025
NASA, DEAP Institute: Harnessing Data Science for Flood Mapping and Monitoring
Role: PI, with Fayteville State University, Elizabeth City Strate Univeristy, NASA Marshall Space Flight (Institute Mentor), 2023 – 2026
NCDOT, Howard Gap Landslide: Spatiotemporal Mapping, Monitoring and Change Detection
Role: PI, 2022 -2026
EEG program (NC Attorney General), A Comprehensive and Low-cost Water Quality Monitoring System for North Carolina Lakes
Role: NCAT PI, with Wake Forest University (Lead) and NC Central University, 2022 - 2025
NCDOT, Center of Excellence on Connected Autonomous Vehicles (NC-CAV)
Role: Senior Personnel, 2020 -2025
NC A&T and UNC Chapel Hill, Looking Forward program, G-FLOAT: Graph-Based Flood Operational Analytics Tool
Role, PI (Co-Lead), with UNC RENCI (Co-Lead), 2022 -2024
NC Collaboratory , A Baseline Development for Sparta Earthquake
Role: PI, with NC Emergency Managment, 2022 – 2024
NOAA, Rapid Floodwater Extent and Depth Measurements using Optical UAV and SAR
Role: PI, with NC Emergency Managment and SECOORA, 2021 -2024
NSF, Research Initiation Award: UAV Remote Sensing for Flood Modeling
Role: PI, 2018 -2024
NSF, Excellence in Research: Developing a Robust, Distributed, and Automated Sensing and Control System for Smart Agriculture
Role: Co-PI, 2018- -2024
NSF, MRI: Acquisition of a Testbed of Connected Autonomous MicroTransit Vehicles
Role: Co-PI, 2020 -2022
NCDOT, Workflow and Feasibility for Road Centerline Conflation,
Role: PI, 2019
UNC Collaboratory, Flood Resilience: Data Collection and Data Analytic in support of Flood Management
Role: PI, 2019 – 2020
UNC Collaboratory, Accuracy Assessment for IoT Stream Gages Data
Role: PI, 2019 -2020
NSF, CNH-S: Dynamics of rural and urban food deserts driven by the interactions between community socio-economic characteristics and land/water quality
Role: Co-PI, 2018- 2022
UNC Collaboratory, Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle during Disaster Operations, 2018- 2019
USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station internship, The NC A&T Summer Student Research: Forest Acreage and Forest Degradation in North Carolina
Role: Faculty Advisor, 2018
NCAT seed grant, Machine Learning for Geospatial Data Analytics
Role, PI, 2018
NSF, Travel Award to Attend the CISE Career Proposal Workshop
Role: PI, 2018
Exelon, Advanced Geospatial Analysis to Identify Suitable Areas for Renewable Energy Development
Role: PI , 2017 - 2018
Exelon R&D, Initiation for Advanced Geospatial Analysis to Identify Suitable Areas for Renewable Energy Development
Role: PI, 2017
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