Research Area

  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Large-scale Dynamical Networks
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Networked Airborne Computing
  • Stochastic System Modeling and Control
  • Airborne Networks
  • Air Traffic Flow Management
  • Complex Information Systems

Funded Projects

  • NSF CyberTraining: Pilot: Training on Unmanned Aerial Systems Cyber Infrastructure, 9/1/2024-8/31/2026, PI, collaboration with UNT and UTA.
  • NSF ExpandAI: PARTNER: Expanding AI Capacity in San Diego: A Strategic Collaboration between San Diego State University and TILOS AI Institute, 7/1/2024 - 6/30/2028, PI, collaboration with UCSD.
  • NSF IMPRESS-U DCL: Supplement: CAREER: Towards Networked Airborne Computing in Uncertain Airspace: A Control and Networking Facilitated Distributed Computing Framework, 1/1/2024-12/31/2025, PI, collaboration with Poznań University of Technology and National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
  • NSF CCRI: Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: ENS: Enhanced Open Networked Airborne Computing Platform, 5/15/2023-4/30/2026, SDSU sole PI, collaboration with UNT (lead), UTA, and UPRM.
  • SDSU SGP: Decentralized Onboard-Offboard Collaborative Computing for In-Time UAS Traffic Management, 1/1/2023-12/31/2023, sole PI.
  • NSF REU: Towards Networked Airborne Computing in Uncertain Airspace: A Control and Networking Facilitated Distributed Computing Framework, 2/15/2022 - 1/31/2026, sole PI.
  • SDSU Assigned Time RSCA: Assigned Time to Achieve Multiple Research Goals, 2022-2023, sole PI.
  • SDSU Weber Honors College Research Fellow Program, Spring 2022, sole PI.
  • SDSU Assigned Time RSCA: Automated Air Traffic Management under Weather Uncertainty, 2021-2022, PI.
  • SDSU Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP): Moving Ground Target Tracking using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 5/24/2021-8/19/2021, sole PI.
  • NSF CAREER: Towards Networked Airborne Computing in Uncertain Airspace: A Control and Networking Facilitated Distributed Computing Framework, 02/15/2021 - 1/31/2026, sole PI.
  • SDSU Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Award: Developing a Realistic Simulator to Facilitate Research on Multi-Robot Systems, 07/04/2020-08/14/2020, sole PI.
  • NSF REU: Developing an Open Networked Airborne Computing Platform, 09/01/2019 – 08/31/2020, sole PI.
  • SDSU University Grants Program (UGP): Distributed Computing and Control Co-Design to Enable Airborne Cloud, 01/01/2020-06/30/2021, sole PI.
  • NSF Supplement: Unified Theory of Model-based and Data-driven Real-time Optimization and Control for Uncertain Networked Systems, 09/01/2019-08/31/2020, sole PI.
  • TAMUCC Texas Comprehensive Research Fund (TCRF): Advanced Human–Technology Interaction Design in Wearable Activity Tracking Devices for Maximizing Health Benefits, 09/01/2019–08/31/2020, Co-PI.
  • NSF CI-NEW: Collaborative: Developing an Open Networked Airborne Computing Platform, 09/01/2017–08/31/2022, SDSU sole PI, collaboration with UTA (lead), UNT, UPRM.
  • NSF EAGER: Real-Time: Collaborative Research: Unified Theory of Model-based and Data driven Real-time Optimization and Control for Uncertain Networked Systems, 09/15/2018–08/31/2021, SDSU sole PI, collaboration with UTA (lead).
  • TAMUCC College Research Enhancement Grant, Optimal Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Systemsto Cover Multiple Regions, 10/15/2018-8/31/2019, sole PI.
  • TAMUCC Texas Comprehensive Research Fund (TCRF): Multi-Resolution Modeling Framework for Large-Scale Dynamical Systems, 09/01/2017–08/31/2018, PI.
  • TARC Project Award by Texas A&M University Engineering Experimentation Station (TEES), 09/01/2018–08/31/2019, Co-PI.