Awards

Selected Awards

1. 2024. Outstanding Engineering Teachers (Fall 2024). College of Engineering, Purdue University.

2. 2024. ASABE 2024 Superior Paper Award. A Methodology for Combine Performance Analyses in Wheat Harvests with GNSS Data. Journal of the ASABE. ASABE Information Technology, Sensors, and Control Systems Technical Community.

3. 2024. Third Place (out of 24 proposals worldwide). 10 Big Ideas Competition, Science-i: Bridging Worlds Competition and Workshop 2024, Science-i.

4. 2023. High-Quality Review. Acknowledged by the Editor in Chief. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS).

5. 2021. Student Travel Support. 24th IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC). IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS).

6. 2020. Student Poster Competition First Prize. Dynamic High-Precision Field Shape Generation via Combine GPS Tracks. Unlocking the Agricultural Data Revolution. Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR).

7. 2020. Student Poster Competition Honorary Mention Prize. Generating Product Traceability Trees for Harvesting from GPS Tracks. Unlocking the Agricultural Data Revolution. Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR).

8. 2020. Student Poster Competition Honorary Mention Prize. Large-Scale Cellular Coverage Analyses for UAV Data Relay via Channel Modeling. Unlocking the Agricultural Data Revolution. Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR).

9. 2019. Student Travel Support. 6th Millimeter-Wave Research Coordination Networks (mmW RCN) Workshop. National Science Foundation (NSF).

10. 2018. Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award. Generating Product Traceability Trees for Harvesting from GPS Tracks. ASABE Annual International Meeting.

11. 2015. Student Travel Scholarship. 18th IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC). IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS).

12. 2012. China National Scholarship. Chinese Government Scholarship. Tianjin University.

13. 2012. Dean’s Award. School of Electronic Information Engineering. Tianjin University.

14. 2012. Endeavour Awards. Australian Government Scholarship. University of South Australia.

15. 2011. China National Scholarship. Chinese Government Scholarship. Tianjin University.

16. 2011. Dean’s Award. School of Electronic Information Engineering. Tianjin University.

17. 2011. Tianjin Area Undergraduate Physics Competition First Prize (top 5%).

18. 2010. China National Scholarship. Chinese Government Scholarship. Tianjin University.

Media Coverage

1. March 2025. Scholarly Excellence. Purdue Today. Purdue University. Available at: [Link] | [Archived Copy].

2. March 2025. Using Sun Shadows and Simulations to Combat Snowy Roads. College of Agriculture 2025 News & Stories. Purdue University. Available at: [Link] | [Archived Copy].

3. February 2025. Education Spotlight: Data Science Class Designed to Challenge Students. Institute for Digital and Advanced Agricultural Systems (IDAAS) Newsletter, February 2025. Purdue University. Available at: [Link] | [Archived Copy].

4. May 2024. Faculty Spotlight. Digital Agriculture Newsletter, May 2024. Purdue University. Available at: [Link] | [Archived Copy].

5. April 2024. Faculty Highlights in Online Education. Ag Online Newsletter, Spring 2024. Purdue University. Available at: [Link] | [Archived Copy].

6. January 2024. The College of Agriculture Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members. College of Agriculture 2024 News & Stories. Purdue University. Available at: [Link] | [Archived Copy].

Grants

1. February 1, 2025 – January 31, 2028. PI. CableLabs’ Spectrum Monitoring Project. Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs).

   • Total amount: TBD

   • Budget for equipment: $7,870

2. January 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026. PI. Tractor Auto Pilot (TAP): Innovating Farmer-Centric Solutions for Automating Agricultural Vehicles with Advanced Rural Wireless and Physical AI. Office of Research’s Type II Laboratory and University Core Facility Research Equipment Program. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

   • Total amount: $209,707

3. January 1, 2025 – August 31, 2030. Workforce Development Co-Lead. NSF Engineering Research Center for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag). National Science Foundation (NSF) Award EEC-1941529.

   • Budget for workforce development (January 2025 – August 2030): $480,532

   • Total amount (September 2025 – August 2030): $5,533,527

4. January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025. PI. UAV6G-AgriNet: Field-Level Connectivity for Autonomous Tractors in Sustainable Agriculture. Nokia Donations Program. Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Karakaari 7, Espoo, FI-02610, Finland.

   • Total amount: EUR 60,000

5. January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025. PI. Tree of Tables (ToT): A Maximally Interoperable Model for Producer-Centric Data Implemented as Two NAPDC Use Cases. National Agricultural Producer Data Cooperative (NAPDC) Convening Awards, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Grant No. 2024-77039-43724, Subaward No. 25-6231-0439-008.

   • Total amount: $58,105

6. September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2026. Co-PI. Enhancing Pavement Instrumentation and Monitoring: A Novel Edge-First, Network Level Solution for Pavement and Roadside Sensors and Live Data Visualization. Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) SPR-4918.

   • Total amount: $350,000

7. October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2026. PI. Startup Funds from the Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) Department. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

   • Total amount: $40,000

8. January 1, 2022 – March 31, 2025. Co-PI. Automated Record Keeping for Maintenance Operations via Tracking of Maintenance Vehicles using Telematics Tracks. Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) SPR-4605.

   • Total amount: $151,998