Currently Funded Projects

• PI: Integrated Real-time Monitoring, Diagnosis, and Predictive Data Analytics for Early Decision-Making and Treatment of Prevalent Diseases in Precision Diary Farming
  Funded by USDA/NIFA.
  Period of Performance: 2023-2026.
• PI: Edge AI-Enhanced Traffic Monitoring and Anomaly Detection in Remote Areas Using Multimodal Large Language Models
  Funded by AI TENNessee Initiative Seed Funding.
  Period of Performance: 2024-2025.
• Co-PI: Real-Time TDOT Customer Satisfaction Visualization for Strategic Decision Support
  Funded by TDOT.
  Period of Performance: 2024-2026.

Previously Funded Projects

• PI: Hazard Detection in Health Information Technology Systems
  Funded by DOE/UT-Battelle.
  Period of Performance: 2018-2022.
• Co-PI: Cost-Effective Mastitis Control and Biosecurity for Sustainable Dairy Farming
  Funded by USDA/NIFA.
  Period of Performance: 2017-2021.
• Co-PI: Achieving High-Resolution Situational Awareness in Ultra-Wide-Area Cyber-Physical Systems
  Funded by NSF.
  Period of Performance: 2012-2017.
• PI: Volkswagen Gift Fund
  Funded by Volkswagen.
  Period of Performance: 2015-2016.
• PI: Analysis of Intelligent Data Placement for Object Store System
  Funded by DOE/UT-Battelle.
  Period of Performance: 2013-2014.
• PI: Autonomous Failure Detection and Recovery in Networked Embedded Systems
  Funded by NSF.
  Period of Performance: 2011-2014.
• PI: Distributed Computational Framework for Massive Heterogeneous Data Fusion
  Funded by UT/ORNL JDRD Program.
  Period of Performance: 2011-2013.
• Co-PI: Distributed Solutions to Smart Camera Networks
  Funded by NSF.
  Period of Performance: 2010-2014.
• PI: CAREER: Operating System based Energy Virtualization for Sensor Networks
  Funded by NSF.
  Period of Performance: 2010-2016.

Current Students

• Mahit Kumar Paul, Ph.D. Student
• Babita Babita, Ph.D. Student
• Ryan Peruski

Previously graduated Students

• Yunhe Feng, Ph.D., now assistant professor, University of North Texas.
• Jared Smith, Master.
• Lipeng Wan, Ph.D., now assistant professor, Georgia State University.
• Zheng Lu, Ph.D., Google.
• Jilong Liao, Master, Microsoft.
• Joshua Pyle, Master.
• Sisi Xiong, Ph.D., Microsoft.
• Yanjun Yao, Ph.D., MicroStrategy.
• Kefa Lu, Master.
• Jonathan Hickerson, Master.
• Clay Taylor, Master.
• Zhibo Wang (co-advised with Dr. Hairong Qi), now professor at Wuhan University, China.