Funded Research Projects

External

  1. PI: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) - University Transportation Center (UTC), Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center (TRANS-IPIC), “Multi-objective Optimization of Reinforced Precast Concrete for Improved Performance”, 01/2025 - 12/2025.
  2. PI: Indiana Department of Transportation - Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP), “SPR-4940 Implementing An Advanced Friction Testing Program for Seamless Coverage of INDOT System”, 07/2024 - 06/2025.
  3. Co-PI: Indiana Department of Transportation - Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP), “SPR-4937 Enhanced Traffic Pattern Knowledge Abstraction and Presentation from 511 Database”, PI: Dr. Yaobin Chen, 08/2024 - 11/2025.
  4. PI: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Graduate Student Scholars Program, "The Utilization of Great Lakes Dredged Sludge in Cementitious Composites: Investigation and Assessment”, 06/2024 - 06/2025.
  5. PI: National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - Gulf Research Program's Early-Career Research Fellowship - Offshore Energy Safety Track, 01/2024 - 12/2025.
  6. PI: American Chemical Society (ACS) - Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) - Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grants, "Computational and Experimental Investigation of Rheological Behavior of Oil-Water Multiphase Flow in the Long-Distance Pipe", 01/2024 - 08/2026.
  7. PI: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) - University Transportation Center (UTC), Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center (TRANS-IPIC), "Data-Driven Smart Composite Reinforcement for Precast Concrete", 01/2024 - 12/2024.
  8. PI: American Concrete Institute (ACI) - Concrete Research Council (CRC), "Rheological Behavior of Fresh Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) Enhanced by Nano-additives and Data-Driven Approaches", 08/2023 - 07/2026.
  9. PI: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Graduate Student Scholars Program, "Data-Driven Modeling for Hazard-Resilient Infrastructure in Southern Lake Michigan Communities", 03/2023 - 04/2024.
  10. PI: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Graduate Student Scholars Program, "Recycling Bottom Sediments from Great Lakes in Sustainable Construction Materials", 03/2023 - 04/2024.
  11. PI: National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps, "Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Sustainable Cement Manufacturing Technology", 02/2023 - 07/2024.
  12. Co-PI: US Department of Transportation - Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) - Pipeline Safety Research Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP), "All-in-One Multifunctional Cured-In-Place Structural Liner for Rehabilitating of Aging Cast Iron Pipelines", PI: Dr. Ying Huang, 09/2022 - 09/2025.
  13. PI: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) Faculty Scholars Award, "Improving Infrastructure Flood Resilience of the Southern Lake Michigan Region with Fluid-Structure Interaction Model", 06/2022 - 06/2023.
  14. Senior Personnel: Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) - Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP), “SPR-4646: Advancing INDOT's Friction Test Program for Seamless Coverage of System”, PI: Dr. Yi Jiang, 01/2022 - 12/2023.
  15. Co-PI: DOE-NETL-Carbon Capture Program, "Industrial Capture Research Guidance, Carbon Capture Simulation for Industry Impact (CCSI2), EY20 Field Work Proposal", National Energy Technology Laboratory, 04/2020 - 04/2021.

Internal

  1. PI: Purdue Polytechnic Holistic Safety and Security (HSS) Research Impact Area Seed Grant, "Improving Community Hazard Resilience through Data-driven Physics-based Crowdsourcing Approach", Purdue University, 05/2023 - 06/2024.
  2. PI: Discovery Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Internship (DUIRI) - Institute for a Sustainable Future (ISF), "Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Construction Materials", Purdue University, 05/2023 - 08/2023.
  3. PI: Discovery Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Internship (DUIRI), "Life Cycle Assessment for Infrastructure Vulnerable to Flood Hazard in the Great Lake Region", Purdue University, 08/2022 - 12/2022.
  4. Co-PI: Purdue Polytechnic Holistic Safety and Security (HSS) Research Impact Area Seed Grant, "Crowd-Machine Partnership on Road Infrastructure Quality Recognition and Resilience", PI: Dr. Tianyi Li, Purdue University, 10/2021 - 06/2022.