Projects

University of Michigan-Dearborn (2020 – Present)

• MRI: Acquisition of Autonomous Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle Platform for Multidisciplinary Research and Education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, National Science Foundation, $244,610.00, (PI), 9/1/2022 – 8/31/2025
• AI System Security Detection Monitoring Research, Ford Motor Company, $199,731.00, (co-PI), 4/1/2022 – 3/31/2024
• Development of Markerless 3D Human Motion Capture Framework from 2D Videos Using Deep Learning, ADVANCE Grant Program, Michigan State Economic Development Corporation, $10,000.00, (PI), 2022
• Detection and tracking of vehicles using Lidar point clouds for autonomous lane-changing system, Hyundai MOBIS Technical Center North America, $50,000.00, (co-PI), 5/31/2021 – 11/30/2021
• Driver Style Transfer for Autonomous Driving, Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program, 2021
• Cooperative Perception and Navigation for Multiple Vehicles Using Deep Neural Network, Korea-US International Joint Research Project sponsored by Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Korea, $41,617.00, (PI), June 2020 – May 2021
• Development of Autonomous Vehicle Research Platform using Deep Learning and Robot Operating System, Korea-US International Joint Research Project sponsored by Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Korea, $21,027.00, (PI), Jan 2020 – June 2020
• Markerless 3D Human Motion Inference Framework from 2D Videos using Deep Learning, Research Initiation & Development Grant by University of Michigan-Dearborn, $15,000.00, (PI), May 2020 – April 2022

Kettering University (2009 – 2019)

• Development of Autonomous Vehicle Research Platform using Deep Learning and Robot Operating System, Korea-US International Joint Research Project sponsored by Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Korea, July 2019 – Dec 2019
• 3D Modeling of Human Motion from 2D Video Images Using Al-based Markerless Inference Framework, Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence (CSCE) Collaborative Research Grant from Grand Valley State University, April 2019
• Development of Experimental Setup for Evaluating Vehicular Communication System (V2X), Faculty Research Fellowship, Kettering University, 2018.
• MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computing Cluster for Multi-Disciplinary Research & Education at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution, National Science Foundation, Award Number: OAC-1725938, Senior Personnel), 2018 – 2020
• Development of Low-Cost Autonomous Vehicle Experimental Platform, Provost’s Research Matching Fund, 2017
• A Touch-Enabled Virtual Room for Scientific Data Exploration, Kettering University, Faculty Research Fellowship, 2015.
• Development of Software Tools for Driver Assistance Systems, Magna Electronics, 2015
• Development of High-Throughput ad High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Tissue Scanner with Internet-Connected 3D Virtual Microscope for Large-Scale Automated Histology (National Science Foundation Award No. ECCS-1337983, PI: Kwon) Sep 1, 2013 – Aug 31, 2017.
• Computer Engineering Summer Day Camp funded by GM Foundation (2013)
• Computer Engineering Day Camp (The Donald Lee Smith Fund through the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, 2013-2015).
• Development of LED system lighting engine module with compact sized data communication modules and driver IC/Processor control parts based on multi-sensor (supported by the MKE/Ministry of Knowledge Economy,  Korea supervised by the KEIT/Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology; Subcontract, 2012-2015).