Research

Openings (updated 11/2023): In January 2024, our team will be relocating to Texas A&M University, and we are actively seeking enthusiastic Postdoctoral and Ph.D. candidates to join our dynamic group for the Spring/Fall 2024 intake. These individuals will participate in multidisciplinary research in one or more of the following areas:

Robotics and computer vision with applications to remanufacturing, infrastructure inspection, and building construction automation
Multi-objective optimization with applications to optimal sensor placement and performance-based structural design and/or network design

Candidates are encouraged to contact Dr. Xiao Liang (xliang@tamu.edu) by sending a copy of CV, transcript, GRE and TOEFL/IELTS, and a list of three references, if available. Please explain how your past research/study experiences and your future research interests are aligned with the projects in the email.

Research Projects

Smart Monitoring for Future Bridge Engineering, Association for Bridge Construction and Design Western New York Chapter, 01/2023 – 12/2023

Robotic systems for future pandemics, UB-Buffalo Blue Sky, 02/2022 – 09/2023

Improving Recycling Efficiency of Portable Electronics by Automating Battery Disassembly, U.S. Department of Energy through REMADE Institute, 09/2023 – 08/2025

NRI/Collaborative Research: Robotic Disassembly of High-Precision Electronic Devices, National Science Foundation, 02/2022 – 01/2025

Post-Disaster Damage Assessment of Bridge Systems, U.S. Department of Transportation through Rutgers-led University Transportation Center, 02/2021 – 03/2022

FW-HTF-RL: Collaborative Research: The Future of Remanufacturing: Human-Robot Collaboration for Disassembly of End-of-Use Products, National Science Foundation, 10/2020 – 09/2024

AI-Empowered Multiple-Fan Wind Tunnel, UB-Buffalo Blue Sky, 08/2020 – 07/2022

A Scalable and Customizable Framework for Multi-Agent Collaboration in Smart Manufacturing, UB-Smart Start Phase II, 10/2019 – 12/2020

Near Real-Time Semantic Damage Segmentation for Large-Scale SHM, NVIDIA Corporation-GPU Grant Program, GPU Hardware Donation (Titan V), 09/2019

FW-HTF-P: Human-Robot Collaboration in Disassembly for Future Remanufacturing, National Science Foundation, 09/2019 – 08/2021

Delivering Maintenance and Repair Actions via Automated/Robotic Systems, U.S. Department of Transportation through Rutgers-led University Transportation Center, 09/2018 – 12/2020

Towards Greater Sustainability and Autonomy: Human-Robot Collaboration for Disassembly in Future Manufacturing, UB-Smart Start Phase I, 09/2018 – 08/2019