Awards

1. Best Paper Award, IEEE Trans. on Autom. Sci. and Eng. for “CAD Guided Automated Nano-Assembly Using Atomic Force Microscopy” (2007).
2. The Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the College of Engineering, Michigan State University, 2004.
3. The Presidential Faculty Development Leave Award from Texas State University, 2017.
4. Named by 6 students (Ryan Hamilton in 2015, Abdel-Muti Zabalawi in 2015, Bryce Davis in 2012, Benjamin Olson in 2011, Alejandro Herrera in 2011, Jonathan Albert Lightfield in 2011) as a person at Texas State University who made contributions to their academic career.
5. Named as Alpha Chi Favorite Professor in 2015.
6. Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. for “Robotic Welding Parameter Optimization Based on Weld Quality Evaluation” (2016).
7. Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. for “A high-accuracy 3D projection system for fastener assembly” (2015).
8. Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Conf. on Ind. Electron. and Appl. (ICIEA 2014) for “Modeling Complex Robotic Assembly Process Using Gaussian Process Regression” (2014).
9. Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. on Inf. and Autom. for “Human-Like Indoor Navigation for Autonomous Industrial Mobile Manipulator” (2012).
10. Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. for “A Bat-like Switched Flying and Adhesive Robot” (2012).
11. Highly Commended Award, J. of Ind. Robots for “Modeling and analysis of robotic wheel loading process in trim-and-final assembly” (2012).
12. Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics for “Dynamic Wafer Handling Process in Semiconductor Manufacturing” (2011).
13. Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Conf. on Ind. Electron. and Appl. (ICIEA 2011) for “Robust Compliant Assembly Automation Using an Industrial Robot”(2011).
14. Highly Commended Award, Int. J. of Ind. Robots for “Automated Robot Programming Based on Sensor Fusion” (2007).
15. Highly Commended Award, Int. J. of Ind. Robots for “CAD Based Automated Robot Trajectory Planning for Spray Painting of Free Form Surfaces” (2002).
16. The Outstanding Reviewer Award from Assembly Automation (Journal), 2009.
17. Quality Salute Award from ABB Inc., 2006.
18. Invited to the Siemens Post-Doctoral Workshop on Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Berkeley, CA 2005.
19. Scholarship from the International Conference in Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes, 2003.