Research Projects

• “Energy Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicle Technologies,” Department of Energy, 10/15/2015-12/31/2018, $3,000,000.
• “Testing and Evaluation of Automated Vehicles,” Mcity, 09/01/2015-08/31/2017, $166,666.
• “Accelerated Evaluation of Automated Vehicles,” UM-Ford Alliance, 05/01/2016-04/30/2018, $199,994.
• “UM-SFMotors Research Center”, 01/01/2017-12/31/2019, $1,500,000. Serve as PI and Center Director.
• “Development of a Primary Other Test Vehicle for the Testing and Evaluation of High-Level Automated Vehicles,” TRI, 01/01/2017-12/31/2018, $723,748, Serve as PI.
• “Ultimately Transformed and Optimized Powertrain Integrated With Automated And Novel Vehicular And Highway Connectivity Leveraged For Efficiency (Utopian Vehicle),” DOE ARPA-E NEXTCAR program, PI: Andreas Malikopoulos (ORNL, moved to University of Delaware), 01/01/2017-12/31/2019, $4,196,480, my share is $1,050,000.
• “Intelligent and Automatic Motion Planning for Self-Driving Vehicles,” TRI, 01/01/2018-12/31/2019, $600,000, Serve as PI.
• “Physics enhanced Deep Learning”, ARC, 05/01/2018-04/30/2020, $340,282, Serve as PI.
• “Behavior Competence Test of Highly Automated Vehicles”, 01/01/2019-12/31/2019, Mcity, $183,000, Serve as PI.
• “Simulations of Highly Automated Vehicles”, 01/01/2019-12/31/2019, Mcity, $104,000, Serve as PI.
• “Measure safety and roadmanship using naturalistic driving data”, 07/01/2019-12/31/2020, Toyota and State Farm, $102,602, Serve as PI.