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Education

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Professional Experience

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Professional Affiliations

  • Senior Member of IEEE since 2006
  • Life Member and BOD member, Chinese Association for Science and Technology, USA. (CAST-USA)  
  • President, Chinese Association for Science and Technology, Great New York Chapter, (CAST-GNY), 2013. 

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Honors and Awards

  • Recipient of Dean's Award for Excellence, for the overall excellence in research, teaching and service, The Grove School of Engineering, The City College of New York, 2019.
  • Recipient of Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2013~2015.
  • Recipient of CCNY Outstanding Mentoring Award, 2010~2011.
  • Recipient of U.S. NSF CAREER award, 2007~2013. "The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization."
  • Recipient of CUNY Certificate of Recognition, "Salute to Scholars" Award, in honor of outstanding scholarly achievements, CUNY, 2005~2020.
  • Cited by Marquis Who’s Who in American, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering since 2002.
  • Recipient of Certificate of Appreciation, New York Academy of Sciences, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
  • Recipient of Certificate of Recognition, Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science and Engineering Education, STEM program at CCNY, 2004 and 2005.

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Research Interests

  • Robotics and Control, Autonomous Navigation, Cyber-physical Systems, Non-Destructive Testing/Evaluation (NDT/NDE), Real-time and Embedded Computing, Assistive Technology, etc.

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Major Grants

External Grants:
  • "A Field Deployable Wall-Climbing Robot for Bridge Inspection using Vision and Impact Sounding Techniques (AS-6)", Departement of Transportation Tier I University Transportation Center: Inspecting and Preserving Infrastructure through Robotic Exploration (INSPIRE UTC), (USDOT #69A3551747126), PI: Jizhong Xiao, 6/2020~2/2022, US$215,802

    The INSPIRE UTC is a consortium of six major partner institutions funded by DOT with annual budget of US $1.5M and is currently embarking on an unprecedented mission to transform the current visual inspection practice of bridges to a future data-driven practice based on robotic platforms. INSPIRE UTC tackles the technical challenges from different perspectives and builds multiple robotic inspection platforms, including mobile manipulating UAVs, magnet-based robots for steel bridge inspection and CCNY’s wall-climbing robots for concrete bridge inspection. The six major partner institutions of INSPIRE UTC are Missouri S&T (lead), City College of New York (CCNY), Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB), University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).

  • “Autonomous Wall-climbing Robots for Inspection and Maintenance of Concrete Bridges (AS-3)”, Department of Transportation Tier I University Transportation Center: Inspecting and Preserving Infrastructure through Robotic Exploration (INSPIRE UTC), (USDOT #69A3551747126), PI: Jizhong Xiao, 5/2017/~6/2020, US$306,493.
  • “SBIR Phase I: Robotic Inspection and Data Analytics to Localize and Visualize the Structural Defects of Civil Infrastructure”, National Science Foundation, PI: Jizhong Xiao, 7/15/2019~12/30/2020, InnovBot LLC, $225,000
  • “SenseTech: Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of Aging Infrastructures by Integration of Visual Inspection with 3-D Imaging of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)”, National Science Foundation, PI: Jizhong Xiao, 7/15/2019~12/30/2020, $50,000
  • “Proof-of-Concept Manufacturing of Wind-Rider Robots for Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of Wind Turbine Blades”, FuzeHub, 6/2019~12/2020, $50,000
  • “Wind-Rider: Blade inspection robots to reduce O&M costs of wind turbine industry”, PowerBridgeNY, 5/2018~4/2019, $150,000
  • “Smart Cane for Assistive Navigation (SCAN) to Help Blind Persons”, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Accessible Transportation Technology Research Initiative (ATTRI), PI: Jizhong Xiao (CCNY), Co-PI: Cang Ye (UALR), 6/2017/6~5/2020, $805,000 (subcontract to UALR: $210,000).
  • “Unmanned Bridge Inspection System (UBIS) --- Robotic Crawler and Delivery System for Full Bridge Inspection”, FHWA, PI: Jizhong Xiao, 11/2016~10/2017, $150,000
  • “3D Mapping of Indoor Environments Using RGB-D sensors”, Google ATAP, PI: Jizhong Xiao, 09/2013 – 12/2014, $68,000.  
  • “STTR Phase I: Wall-climbing robots for nondestructive inspection to ensure sustainable infrastructure”, National Science Foundation, PI: Jizhong Xiao, 07/2013 – 12/2014, $225,000.  
  • “Senior Design Program on Assistive Technology to Aid Visually Impaired People”, National Science Foundation, PI: Jizhong Xiao, Co-PI: Zhigang Zhu, 09/2012 – 8/2017, $124,998.  
  • “Intelligent Situation Awareness and Navigation Aid for Visually Impaired Persons”, U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Exploratory Advanced Research Program,  PI: Yingli Tian , Co-PI: Jizhong Xiao, and Aries Arditi, 05/2012 – 05/2016, $817,413 ($600,000 from FHWA + $180,000 non-federal match+$37,413 from Visibility Metrics LLC) .
  • “Towards Autonomous Miniature Rotorcrafts in Cluttered Environments for Scene Understanding”, U.S. Army Research Office,  Award No. W911NF-09-1-0565, PI: Jizhong Xiao, Co-PI: Yingli Tian, 10/1/2009 ~9/30/2013, $440,408.
  • “DURIP: Equipment for Networked Autonomous Mobile Systems”, U.S. Department of Defense, PI: Jizhong Xiao, Co-PIs: Zhigang Zhu, Myung Lee, 9/26/2008~9/25/2009, $150,000
  • “CARRER: Advancing Mobile Robots to 3D”, National Science Foundation, Grant No. IIS-0644127, PI: Jizhong Xiao, 2/15/2007 ~ 2/14/2012 , $400,000 ($80,000 X 5 years).
  • “MRI: Development of a New Generation of Mobile Robots with Wall-Climbing and Reliable Communication Capabilities”, National Science Foundation, Grant No. CNS-0619577, Co-PI, with Prof. Umit Uyar as PI, July 2006~July 2009, $478,968.  
  •  “Development and Commercialization of Innovative Wall-climbing Robots”, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), PI, with Prof. Ali Sadegh, 8/1/2006 ~ 8/1/2007 , $16,000. 
  • “CRI: Center for Perceptual Robotics, Intelligent Sensors and Machines (PRISM) at CCNY”, National Science Foundation, Grant No. CNS-0551598, PI: Jizhong Xiao, Co-PIs: Profs. Zhigang Zhu, Myung Lee and George Wolberg, Senior Personnel: Profs Ali Sadegh, Esther Levin, Michael Grossberg and Umit Uyar, March 2006~March 2008, $280,000 (NSF)+$212,424 (CCNY).
  • “Cooperative Wall-climbing Robots in 3-D Environments for Surveillance and Target Tracking”, U.S. Army Research Office, PI, with Prof. Zhigang Zhu, Nov. 2004~Nov. 2007, $375,237.
  • “MII planning proposal: Center for Perceptual Robotics at the City College of New York”, National Science Foundation, PI, with Prof. Zhigang Zhu, Oct. 2004~Oct. 2005, $49,938.
  • “MRI Instrumentation Development: Smart Reconfigurable Miniature Robot System Based on System-On-Programmable-Chip Technology”, National Science Foundation, Co-PI, with Prof. Umit Uyar, Sept. 2004~Sept. 2006, $202,844.

CUNY internal grants: 

  • "Bio-Mimetic Approaches to Quadrupedal Robot Locomotion", CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant, Co-PI, with Profs. Simon Parsons and Theodore Raphan of Brooklyn College , Sept. 2005~Sept. 2007, $79,480.  
  • “Acquisition of equipment for multi-robot and mobile sensor networks research”, CUNY Research Equipment Grants Program, PI, with Prof. Myung Lee, 7/2005~7/2006, $22,250.
  • “Development of an intelligent robotic inspection system for security applications”, PSC-CUNY-36, 7/2005~7/2006, $4,000.
  • “Customizing Microprocessors for Micro-robots with SOPC Technology”, PSC-CUNY-35, 7/2004~7/2005, $4,400.
  • “Development of a Micro Climbing Robotic System”, PSC-CUNY-34, 07/2003-07/2004, $5000.

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Professional Services

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics & Automation Letter, Aug. 2018 ~ Aug. 2020
  • Program Committee and Associate Editor, 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2014), Chicago, USA, Sept. 14~18, 2014.
  • Organizing Committee and Exhibition Chair, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICAR’2014), HongKong, May 31 - June 7, 2014 .
  • Program Committee and Associate Editor, 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2013), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, Nov. 3 -7, 2013.
  • Program Committee and Associate Editor, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICAR’2013), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6~10, 2013 .
  • Organizing Committee and Exhibition Chair, 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St. Louis, Oct. 11~17, USA.
  • Program Committee, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta , USA , June 27~ 30, 2007.
  • Organizing Committee and Exhibition Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2006), Beijing , China  , Dec. 9-14, 2006 .
  • Program Committee, the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS’2006), Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA , July 12-14, 2006 .
  • Program Committee, IEEE/SMC International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, Los Angeles , USA , April 24-26, 2006 .
  • Organizing Committee and Exhibition Co-Chair, 2005 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM’2005), Monterey , California, USA, July 24-28, 2005 .
  • Program Committee, 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2005), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Aug. 2-6, 2005.
  • Technical Program Committee and Program Track Chair, 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV'2004), Kunming, China, Dec. 6-9, 2004..
  • Workshop Organizer, Workshop on Control and Cooperation of Intelligent Miniature Robots at  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’03),Las Vegas, Oct. 27-31, 2003.
  • Frequent Reviewer for the following Journals and Conferences: IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Trans.
    on Mechatronics, IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, Int. J. of Robotics and Automation, Neurocomputing, and IROS, ICRA, ICARCV, AIM, etc.

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