News

October 26, 2026 INEN 6301 Advanced Robotics palletizing challenge: the UR10e picked six cubes off the conveyor and stacked them on a 2 × 3 pallet, and the winning team finished in 71.794 s — read about the challenge.
October 12, 2026 Our proposal ‘AI-Resilient Assessment: An LLM-Facilitated Oral Defense Protocol for STEM Graduate Education’ was selected for the Lamar University 2026–2027 Excellence in Assessment Grant.
October 5, 2026 INEN 6301 Advanced Robotics second UR10e race, this time with the conveyor and sensors driven through I/O: Group 2 ran the fastest cycle — read about the task.
September 28, 2026 INEN 6301 Advanced Robotics lab session in the renovated XRAI Lab: students raced a UR10e pick-and-place task, and Group 1 won in 11.328 s with zero errors — read about the session and the lab.
August 28, 2026 Hosted Simon Saurbier (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) for an ISE seminar on human–machine symbiosis — read about the talk and the discussion.
August 23, 2026 Heading to ASME IDETC-CIE 2026, chairing both VARE User Experience (UX) and Human-Machine Interaction sessions — CIE-31-01 and CIE-31-02. I'm presenting ‘Seeing Isn’t Believing: the Vertical–Horizontal Illusion Across Screens and XR Headsets’, and Rezwanul Ashraf Ruddro is presenting ‘An LLM-Integrated VR Framework for Avatar-Driven Oral Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes.’
August 22, 2026 New project video: an autonomous TurtleBot 4 / ROS 2 robot that runs route-based vibration inspection routes — watch the UI demo.
August 6, 2026 Launched Wherefold, a bilingual interactive travel guide for the US covering 1,274 cities, 5,110 attractions, and 36 national parks — built solo with React, Mapbox GL, and a Prisma/PostgreSQL backend.
May 18, 2026 'A Human-Centered AI Task Management System for Cognitive Load Reduction and Decision Support in Industrial Plant Management' accepted in the AHFE International Open Access
May 16, 2026 I attended the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2026 in Arlington, TX
May 1, 2026 Aiden Ma (Westbrook High School), whom I mentor, won First Place at the inaugural AI & Software Pitch Competition at Lamar EXPO 2026 with MOTION — ten finalists were selected from 29 entrants — read about the project and the competition.
April 26, 2026 'Seeing Isn't Believing: The Vertical-Horizontal Illusion Across Screens and XR Headsets' accepted in the IDETC/CIE2026 conference proceedings.
August 23, 2023 Joining IDETC-CIE 2023 in Boston, MA! Presenting two groundbreaking works: tackling cybersecurity risks in smart manufacturing and advancing global calibration in VST AR system.
August 16, 2023 Exciting news! A Global Correction Framework for Camera Registration in Video See-Through Augmented Reality Systems was accepted in the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering.
Jun 4, 2023 Thrilled to attend NAMRC-MSEC 2023 in Rutgers, NJ. Engaging with experts, and exploring manufacturing innovations.
May 21, 2023 Exciting news! 'I can see your password': A case study about cybersecurity risks in mid-air interactions of mixed reality-based smart manufacturing applications was accepted in the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE).
April 8, 2023 Two abstracts accepted for IDETC-CIE 2023. Ready to showcase cutting-edge research on the global stage.