Recent news (Last updated: Nov. 2022):
* New journal paper accepted: Zhenhao Zhao, Eunsun Chung, Kyong-Mee Chung, and Chung Hyuk Park. "AV-FOS: A Transformer-based Audio-Visual Interaction Style Recognition for Children with Autism based on the Family Observation Schedule (FOS-II)." IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) (2025). * New NSF Grant funded: Collaborative Research: Designing Intelligent Industrial Robots for STEM Inclusion by Leveraging Self-Determination Theory to Foster Autistic Talent in Manufacturing Work. * New NSF Grant funded: Collaborative Research: FDT-BioTech: Advancing Mathematical and Statistical Foundations to Enhance Human Digital Twin of Neurophysiological Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification * Funding awarded from NIH (R21): NIH R21-AG077404: “Wearable Sensors and AI to Recognize and Evaluate IADLs" * Funding awarded from NSF: NSF #2124866, “A Digital Nudge: Assessing the Impact of an Immutable Records Data Management Platform on Student Researcher Ethics." * We are working on final contracts on an international collaborative project funded by KIAT, with a two-year award to GW at ~$137,000. Updates coming soon. * I was honored to be awarded with a GW SEAS Junior Faculty Research Award. So appreciative of all the supports from the school, students, and collaborators. * We received a one year CTSI-CN award ($50,000) with a team of GW CCAS, GW SEAS, and GW SoN. * One of our HRI LBR was awarded with LBR Award (2nd place) in HRI'19 held at Daegu, Korea. * We received a five year NSF CAREER award ($548,900), entitled: "CAREER: Social Intelligence with Contextual Ambidexterity for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction and Intervention (LT-HRI2)." * We received a one-year, $50,000 award from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN) to support our project, “Tele-assistive Robotic Nurse for Human-Robot Collaboration in Neonatal Environment.” |
Past news:
* Funding awarded from NIH (R01 HD082914) NRI-NIH: MUSIC-BASED INTERACTIVE ROBOTIC ORCHESTRATIONFOR CHILDREN WITH ASD (~$700K) * We received a two-year research award from GW OVPR CDRF program, ~$97,500. * My Master's student Rachael Bevill has been awarded the 2017-2018 Whitaker International Program Fellowship. The Whitaker Fellowship is a funding opportunity for emerging U.S. leaders in biomedical engineering to build collaborative ties with individuals and institutions overseas. Roughly 30 fellows are selected nationally each year. During the 2017-2018 academic year, Rachael will spend nine months in Stuttgart, Germany conducting research under Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Haptic Intelligence. * Our undergraduate researcher, Paul Azzi, has been awarded the Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research (SUPER) scholarship~! * Two of my mentored teams have won the Invention & Entrepreneurship awards ($2,000 each)--Scott Downen et al., and Hifza Javed et al.--at the GW Research Days 2017. Good job~! * Rachael Bevill has won the Best Poster Presentation Award (tie) at the GW Research Days 2017. Good job, too~! * GW BME undergraduate student, Srineil Nizambad, received the GWIBE Undergraduate Research Scholarship for interactive robotic research in our lab~! * GW BME UG/MS students team (Paul, Matt, Conor, and Rachael) was selected as one of the 2016 SEAS R&D Showcase candidates. Way to go~! * Full day Workshop (Sept. 14) on Assistive Robotics for Individuals with Disabilities: HRI Issues and Beyond in Chicago, U.S.A. at IROS'14 |