Artificial Intelligence (AI)Â Studies

An Autoregressive-based Framework for Simulating Stochastic Occupant Behavior in Residential Buildings
Jiuyi Xu, Ryunhee Kim, Yunyang Ye, Yangming Shi
Building Simulation, 2026

Robotics Studies

Mitigating Multi-Module Errors for Reliable Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Online Trajectory Refinement
Qi Yin, Yangming Shi
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2026. (Oral)

A Navigation System to Improve Quadruped Robot’s Autonomous Path Planning and Locomotion on Outdoor Construction Sites
Qi Yin, Ziming Liu, Meida Chen, Yang Ye, Jing Du, Yangming Shi

A Teacher-Student Learning Approach to Improve Quadruped Robot’s Autonomous Locomotion and Obstacle Avoidance on Construction Site
Qi Yin, Yang Ye, Meida Chen, Yangming Shi
ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE), 2025.
Extended Reality (XR) Studies

To Shelter or Not To Shelter: Exploring the Influence of Different Modalities in Virtual Reality on Individuals’ Tornado Mitigation Behaviors
Jiuyi Xu, Tolulope Sanni, Ziming Liu, Ye Yang, Jiyoung Lee, Wei Song, Yangming Shi

IDU: Incremental Dynamic Update of Existing 3D Virtual Environments with New Imagery Data
Meida Chen, Luis Leal, Yue Hu, Rong Liu, Butian Xiong, Andrew Feng, Jiuyi Xu, Yangming Shi

Open-Vocabulary High-Resolution 3D (OVHR3D) Data Segmentation and Annotation Framework
Jiuyi Xu, Meida Chen, Andrew Feng, Zifan Yu, Yangming Shi

Large-scale 3D Terrain Reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting for Visualization and Simulation
Meida Chen, Devashish Lal, Zifan Yu, Jiuyi Xu, Andrew Feng, Suya You, Abdul Awal Md NURUNNABI, Yangming Shi
We gratefully acknowledge the agencies that have sponsored our research studies.









