• 04/2024 - Dr. Cai was selected as ASCE 2023 Outstanding Reviewer!

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• 03/2024 - Sherry and Usman presented their papers in 2024 ASCE CI & CRC Joint Conference!

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• 01/2024 - Dr. Cai received a NIST/NSF Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG), “Artificial Intelligence Powered Sequential Decision Support for Adaptive Post-Earthquake Restoration of Regional Transportation Networks” (2024-2027, PI: Dr. Ao Du, Co-PI: Dr. Jiannan Cai)!

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• 11/2023 - Dr. Cai received a grant from Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center (TRANS-IPIC), Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC), “Gaze-directed UAV-UGV Coordination Framework for On-site Quality Inspection of Precast Bridge Construction” (2024-2025, PI: Dr. Jiannan Cai, Co-PIs: Dr. Ao Du and Dr. Ibukun Awolusi at UTSA)!

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• 09/2023 - Juan continues his graduate study with AICon as a master's student!

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• 09/2023 - Mohsen joined the group as a Ph.D. student!

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• 09/2023 - Usman has passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam!

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• 07/2023 - Dr. Cai was awarded for 2023 ASCE Alfred Noble Prize!

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• 06/2023 - Sherry and Usman presented their papers in 2023 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3ce)!

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• 05/2023 - Dr. Cai was selected as ASCE 2022 Outstanding Reviewer!

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• 05/2023 - Dr. Cai was selected for 2022 Recognition for Teaching Contribution by KCEID!

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• 12/2022 - Sherry received a scholarship for the Transdisciplinary Team Grand Challenge: Conflict at UTSA.  Under her leadership, their team tied for first place in this proposal competition!

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• 09/2022 - Dr. Cai received an NSF grant, "FW-HTF-R/Collaborative Research: FAIR4WISE: Future AI and Robotics for Women in Smart Engineering" (2022-2025, PI: Dr. Jiannan Cai, Co-PIs: Drs. Yuanxiong Guo and Xiaohong Xu at UTSA)

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• 09/2022 - Sherry has passed her Ph.D. qualifying exam!​

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• 08/2022 - Usman joined the group as a Ph.D. student!

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• 08/2022 - Dr. Cai received an AIST Foundation grant, "Digital Computer Vision Technologies for Productivity and Safety Management in Steel Manufacturing" (2022-2023, PI: Dr. Ibukun Awolusi at UTSA, Co-PI: Jiannan Cai)!

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• 06/2022 - Dr. Cai got Certificate in Effective College Instruction from Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)!

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• 04/2022 - Dr. Cai was invited as a panelist for Panel "Data Dignity: Building Responsible Data Ecosystems" at the 4th annual Texas Smart Cities Summit!

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• 04/2022 - Dr. Cai received a Tran-SET grant, "Climate change impacts on asset management of Texas concrete bridges" (2022 - 2023, PI: Dr. Ao Du at UTSA, Co-PI: Dr. Jiannan Cai)!

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• 03/2022 - Sherry (Xiaoyun) has been awarded as Xilinx-MATRIX AI Fellow by MATRIX AI Consortium at UTSA!

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• 02/2022 -  Dr. Cai received an NSF grant, “ERI: Prediction-Enabled Safe and Productive Human-Robot Collaboration in Dynamic and Uncertain Construction Workspaces” (2022-2024, PI: Dr. Jiannan Cai)!

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• 09/2021 - Dr. Cai gave an invited seminar about "Intelligent Human-Robot Collaboration in Future Construction" at the IAI summit 2021 held in Houston, TX!

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• 06/2021 - Dr. Cai received an Internal Research Awards (INTRA) at UTSA, “Understanding and Predicting Worker Behavior in Human-Robot Co-Construction” (2021-2022, PI: Dr. Jiannan Cai)!

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• 02/2021 - Sherry (Xiaoyun) joined the group as a Ph.D. student!

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• 08/2020 - Dr. Cai started her position as an Assistant Professor at UTSA!