The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted one of the most prestigious early-career honors to the director of CIAO lab, Dr. Ningshi Yao. The NSF CAREER Award, funded by the Energy, Power, Control, and Learning (EPCL) Program, recognizes Yao’s pioneering work. The five-year $628K grant will support her research on Read more…
Dr. Yao received a $750k grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to establish a hands-on mechatronics training program aimed at building the next generation of high-tech engineering technologists. The three-year funding will support the creation of the Natural EXTension (NEXT) program. As emerging technologies like autonomous systems, artificial Read more…
Dr. Ningshi Yao has been awarded a prestigious $1.17 million R01 grant, from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), to lead a groundbreaking 4 year project. The award comes from the joint National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Read more…
The GMU BlimpSquad team took first place in the Defend the Republic competition, held in Eaglebank Arena, George Mason University, in April 2023. After an autonomous qualifying, we stood as the first team to achieve a full sequence of autonomous ball capturing and autonomous scoring without any human intervention, and Read more…
We are very excited to announce that we have received a grant from the Office of Naval Research for Distributed Intelligence with Lighter-Than-Air Vehicles. This 3-year project is a joint research with Dr. Daigo Shishika. The project aims to build robotic agents that can robustly operate in dynamic and contested Read more…
Our PhD student Sunil Kumar Rajendran received the ECE “2022 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant” award. Congratulations!