Funded research awards for July 2024. Bolded names are Purdue Polytechnic faculty or staff; starred names are the principal investigators.
- Modeling and Optimization of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots on Inclined and Curved Surfaces
Investigator(s): Dongming Gan**; Sponsor: Industry Partner; Polytechnic: $200,000 - Resilient Inverter Control
Investigator(s): Xiaonan Lu**; Sponsor: Industry Partner; Polytechnic: $74,195 - Developing FVSU's Capacity in Ag Research, Education, and Extension to Enhance Faculty and Students
Investigator(s): Suranjan Panigrahi**; Sponsor: National Institute of Food & Agriculture; Polytechnic: $62,009 - Collaborative Research: Digital Twin Solutions for Energy Provision Logistics in Three-Sided Electric Mobility Markets
Investigator(s): Tho Le**; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Polytechnic: $269,164 - Development of Reliable, Secure, and Safe Human-AI Alignment Techniques
Investigator(s): BC Min**; Sponsor: Sungkyunkwan University; Polytechnic: $29,226.12 - Further Refinement and Integrated Platform for INDOT Traffic Management and Safety Toolset
Investigator(s): Yung-Ping Chien,**, Yaobin Chen, Shu Hu; Sponsor: US Department of Transportation; Polytechnic: $68,866.50; Total: $229,555 - Scalable and Concurrent Targeted Search for Digital Forensics
Investigator(s): Umit Karabiyik**; Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory; Polytechnic: $126,449 - Implementing An Advanced Friction Testing Program for Seamless Coverage of INDOT System
Investigator(s): Chengcheng Tao**, Yi Jiang; US Department of Transportation; Polytechnic: $42,000 - CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: AI and Cybersecurity Education for Cyberinfrastructure: A Hands-On Approach
Investigator(s): Baijian Yang**, Jin Wei-Kocsis, Deepak Nadig; Tonglin Zhang National Science Foundation; Polytechnic: $480,000; Total: $640,000 - Enhanced Traffic Pattern Knowledge Abstraction and Presentation
Investigator(s): Yaobin Chen**, Tianyi Li, Chengcheng Tao; Sponsor: US Department of Transportation; Polytechnic: $108,476.28; Total: $164,358 - Characterizing Engineering Students’ Design Thinking, Energy Science Learning, and Economic Decision-Making using an Energy Based Software Platform
Investigator(s): Brittany Newell**, Ale Magana; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Polytechnic: $175,000; Total: $200,000 - Enhancing Undergraduate Experiences in Data and Mobile Cloud Security
Investigator(s): Feng Li**; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Polytechnic: $469,999 - SCALE K-12 Silicon Crossroads ME Commons
Investigator(s): Tamara Moore**, Kerrie Douglas, Siddika Guzey, Morgan Hynes, Greg Strimel; Sponsor: US Department of Defense; Polytechnic: $14,160; Total: $70,800 - Analysis of compression Molded Hybrid Composites
Investigator(s): Eduardo Barocio Vaca**, Garam Kim, Byron Pipes; Sponsor: Industry Partner; Pol ytechnic: $33,000; Total: $100,000
** Indicates principal investigator
Total Polytechnic awards = $2,152,544.90
