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Research Projects

Collaborative Research/FW-HTF-R: FAIR4WISE: Future AI and Robotics for Women in Smart Engineering

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $688,643

Status: Active

Collaborative Research/FW-HTF-R: Human-Robot Sensory Transfer for Worker Productivity, Training, and Quality of Life in Remote Undersea Inspection and Construction Tasks

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $224,999

Status: Active

CPS: Medium: Bio-socially Adaptive Control of Robotics-Augmented Building-Human Systems for Infection Prevention by Cybernation of Pathogen Transmission

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $1,199,129

Status: Active

I-Corps: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled and Digital Twin Interactive Robots for Facility Hygiene and Human Health

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $49,971

Status: Active

Lignin-derived Carbon Storing Foams for High Performance Insulation

Sponsor: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

PI: Dr. Art Ragauskas Dr. Shuai Li as Co-PI

Funding: $2,557,383

Status: Active

STEM Education and Apprenticeship Liaison (SEAL) for Navy

Sponsor: Office of Naval Research

PI: Dr. Ozlem Kilic Dr. Shuai Li as Senior Personnel

Funding: $600,000

Status: Active

RAPID: Impacts of Design and Operation Attributes of Mass-Gathering Civil Infrastructure Systems on Pathogen Transmission and Exposure

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $199,809

Status: Completed

SCC-PG: Toward Disease-Resistant School Communities by Reinventing the Interfaces among Built Environments, Occupants, and Microbiomes

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $149,998

Status: Completed

CRII: CPS: Modeling Subsurface Features and Connected Autonomous Vehicles as Cyber-Physical Systems for Reciprocal Mapping and Localization

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $175,000

Status: Completed

Drones and Other Technologies to Assist in Disaster Relief Efforts

Sponsor: Tennessee Department of Transportation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $149,999

Status: Completed

Concrete Bridge Deck Deterioration Assessment Using Ground Penetrating Radar

Sponsor: Tennessee Department of Transportation

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $149,681

Status: Completed

Pollutant Sourcing Identification in Impaired Surface Waters

Sponsor: Tennessee Department of Transportation

PI: Dr. Qiang He Dr. Shuai Li as Co-PI

Funding: $75,493

Status: Completed

Smart Design and Operation of Ventilation Systems to Reduce Indoor Pathogen Transmission

Sponsor: Trimble, Inc.

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $9,956

Status: Completed

Artificial Intelligence Aided 3D Metagenomic Mapping of Building Environments and Humans to Model Pathogen Transmission

Sponsor: Science Alliance

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $149,331

Status: Completed

Pathogen Transmission Pathway Identification by Fomite and Behavior Monitoring

Sponsor: University of Tennessee

PI: Dr. Qiang He Dr. Shuai Li as Co-PI

Funding: $47,000

Status: Completed

Toward Precision Environmental Health Risk Management: Feasibility of Personalized Exposome Monitoring

Sponsor: University of Tennessee

PI: Dr. Qiang He Dr. Shuai Li as Co-PI

Funding: $45,000

Status: Completed

Trust-Aware Human-Robot Interface for Occluded and Uncertain Space Search

Sponsor: University of Tennessee

PI: Dr. Shuai Li

Funding: $69,962

Status: Completed

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