Faculty
Bio: Daniel Morris leads the 3D Vision Lab which seeks to leverage artificial intelligence for solving difficult sensing problems in the automotive and agricultural domains. His work includes multi-sensor fusion for detecting vehicles and pedestrians, for estimating their motion and for tracking. In the agricultural domain, his team developed automated 3D posture estimation for walking swine and was given the MSU Innovation of the Year award for 2022.
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Webpage: https://www.egr.msu.edu/~dmorris/
Bio: Dr. Tan received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in automatic control from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1995, 1998, respectively, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland in 2002. From September 2002 to July 2004, he was a Research Associate with the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) at the University of Maryland. In August 2004 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University, where he is currently an MSU Foundation Professor and the Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair. His research interests include underwater robotics, soft robotics, smart materials, and control systems. Dr. Tan's research has been supported by National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Geological Survey, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Toyota, Naval Research Lab, U.S. Department of Transportation, and MSU Foundation, among others.
Dr. Tan is a Fellow of IEEE and ASME. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2006, MSU Teacher-Scholar Award in 2010, Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award (senior category) from MSU College of Engineering in 2018, and Distinguished Alumni Award from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland in 2018. He has received several Best Paper Awards. He has served as a Senior Editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), an Associate Editor/Technical Editor for TMECH, Automatica, and International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, and a guest editor for six journal special issues or sections. Dr. Tan has served on the organizing or program committees for a number of international conferences, including serving as the Program Chair for the 15th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'2011), General Chair for the 2018 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC'2018), Program Chair for the 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM'2020), and General Chair for 2023 American Control Conference (ACC'2023). Dr. Tan is also keen to integrate his research with educational and outreach activities, including serving as Director of an NSF-funded Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site program at MSU from 2009 – 2016 and Curator of a robotic fish exhibit at MSU Museum from April 2016 to January 2017.
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Webpage: https://www.egr.msu.edu/~xbtan/
Bio: Dr. Lu is an Assistant Professor in Biosystems Engineering at MSU with research interests in in-field & postharvest sensing and automation, AI & robotics in agriculture, imaging-based phenotyping.
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Bio: Dr. Zhaojian Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He obtained M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2015) in Aerospace Engineering (flight dynamics and control) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. As an undergraduate, Dr. Li studied at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Department of Civil Aviation, in China. Dr. Li worked as an algorithm engineer at General Motors from January 2016 to July 2017. His research interests lie in the intersection between control theory and machine learning, with applications to intelligent vehicles and robotics. His research has been funded by National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, US Department of Agriculture, Army, Office of Naval Research, Ford, DENSOR, T-Mobile, among others. He is a senior member of IEEE and a recipient of the NSF CAREER award.
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Webpage: https://www.egr.msu.edu/rival/