Research

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Studies

LowDiff

Jiuyi Xu, Qing Jin, Meida Chen, Andrew Feng, Yang Sui, Yangming Shi

An Autoregressive-based Framework for Simulating Stochastic Occupant Behavior in Residential Buildings

Jiuyi Xu, Ryunhee Kim, Yunyang Ye, Yangming Shi

Building Simulation, 2026

Egocentric Camera-based Method for Detecting Static Hazardous Objects on Construction Sites

Ziming Liu, Jiuyi Xu, Christine Suen, Meida Chen, Zhengbo Zou, Yangming Shi

Automation in Construction, 2025

Robotics Studies

FastVLA

Jiuyi Xu, Chengyuan Qian, Zhengzhong Tu, Yang Sui, Yangming Shi

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.
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