Funded Research Projects in Transportation Systems

  • Principal Investigator, Road Pavement Condition Monitoring by Embedded Crowdsensing, a subaward from the Pennsylvania State University supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 2019-2020
  • Principal Investigator, Machine Learning with Edge and Cloud Computing for Crowdsensing of Pavement Conditions, supported by Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development via Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, 2019-2020
  • Co-Principal Investigator, University Transportation Centers Program, a subaward from the Pennsylvania State University supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 2018-2021
  • Co-Principal Investigator, A Wirelessly Preemptive Sensing System for Quasi-Realtime Earthquake Monitoring of Bridges, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2009-2012 (2-slide introduction)
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Wireless Signal Networks for Subsurface Modeling and Geo-Event Characterization, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2009-2011 (3-slide introduction)
  • Principal Investigator, A Wireless Sensor Network for Earthquake Response Monitoring, supported by Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development via Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, 2004-2005
  • Principal Investigator, Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networking for Public Safety Applications, supported by Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation, 2004
Peer-reviewed Research Publications in Transportation Systems
  • Sibel Pamukcu and Liang Cheng (Editors and Contributors), Underground Sensing, Elsevier Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-803139-1, 2018.
  • Maximillian Machado, Ran Ran and Liang Cheng, Embedded Crowdsensing for Pavement Monitoring and its Incentive Mechanisms, Volume 3 Machine Learning under Resource Constraints – Applications, edited by Katharina Morik, Jörg Rahnenführer and Christian Wietfeld, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 297-312, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110785982-025
  • Jing Ma, Xiaotong Zhang, Qiwei Huang, Liang Cheng, and Mingyu Lu, Experimental Study on the Impact of Soil Conductivity on Underground Magneto-Inductive Channel, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 14, pp. 1782-1785, 2015.
  • Suk-Un Yoon, Liang Cheng, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Sibel Pamukcu, and Muhannad Suleiman, A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Underground-to-Underground Communication for Wireless Sensor Networks,  Adhoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Vol. 24, Issue 3/4, pp. 333-348, 2015.
  • Siavash Dorvash, Shamim Pakzad, and Liang Cheng, An iterative modal identification algorithm for structural health monitoring using wireless sensor networks, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 339-365, 2013. [PDF]
  • Ehsan Ghazanfari, Sibel Pamukcu, Suk-Un Yoon, Muhannad T. Suleiman, and Liang Cheng, Geotechnical sensing using electromagnetic attenuation between radio transceivers, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 21, No. 12, 2012.
  • Suk-Un Yoon, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Liang Cheng, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Subsurface event detection and classification using wireless signal networks, Sensors, Vol. 12, No. 11, 2012. [PDF]
  • Boyang Zhou, Ryan Cheng, Unmesh Khanolkar, and Liang Cheng, Analysis and Design of an Edge Computing Enabled Real-Time Object Detection Platform for Drone-as-a-Service using Network Calculus. IEEE 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2023), Rome, Italy, May-June 2023. [PDF]
  • Taian Fan, Tian Xia, and Liang Cheng, Antenna Performance under Geo-property Variations for Real-time Underground Tomography, in Proceedings of 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2016), Beijing, China, July 10-15, 2016.
  • Suk-Un Yoon, Liang Cheng, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Zi Wang, Xiaotong Zhang, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Subsurface Monitoring using Low Frequency Wireless Signal Networks, in the WIP session of IEEE Percom 2012, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19-23, 2012. [PDF]
  • Ehsan Ghazanfari, Suk-Un Yoon, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Liang Cheng, Real time global subsurface monitoring using new application of wireless signal networks, proof of concept, ASCE Geo-congress Conference, March 2012.
  • Ehsan Ghazanfari, Suk-Un Yoon, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, and Liang Cheng, Challenges of subsurface geo-sensing and monitoring using wireless signal networks, Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2012, March 2012.
  • Siavash Dorvash, Xu Li, Shamim Pakzad, and Liang Cheng, Network Architecture Design of an Agile Sensing System with Sandwich Wireless Sensor Nodes, Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2012, San Diego, CA, March 2012.
  • Suk-Un Yoon, Liang Cheng, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Sibel Pamukcu, and Muhannad T. Suleiman, A radio propagation model for wireless underground sensor networks, in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Houston, TX, December 2011. [PDF]
  • Zi Wang, Shamim N. Pakzad, and Liang Cheng, Sandwich node architecture for task preemption in wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring applications, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, September 13-15, 2011.
  • Elizabeth Labuz, Shamim Pakzad, and Liang Cheng, Damage Detection and Localization in Structures: A Statistics Based Algorithm Using a Densely Clustered Sensor Network, in Proceedings of the 2011 Structures Congress, Las Vegas, April 14-16, 2011.
  • Suk-Un Yoon, Liang Cheng, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Subsurface geo-applications of wireless signal networks, in Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2011, San Diego, California, March 6-10, 2011.
  • Xu Li, Siavash Dorvash, Liang Cheng, Shamim Pakzad, An implementation of a data-transmission pipelining algorithm on imote2 platforms, in Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2011, San Diego, California, March 6-10, 2011.
  • Ehsan Ghazanfari, Suk-Un Yoon, Yi Dong, Xu Li, Carlos Medina, Donald Seserko, Liang Cheng, Tae Sup Yun, and Sibel Pamukcu, Subsurface Geo-event Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of the Geo-Frontiers 2011, Dallas, TX, Mar. 13-16, 2011.
  • S. Dorvash, S.N. Pakzad, E. Labuz, M. Chang, X. Li, L. Cheng, Validation of a Wireless Sensor Network using Local Damage Detection algorithm for Beam-Column Connections, in Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2010, San Diego, California, March 7-11 2010. [PDF]
  • Xu Li, Siavash Dorvash, Liang Cheng, and Shamim Pakzad, Pipelining in Structural-Health-Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2010, San Diego, California, March 7-11 2010.
  • Xu Li, Tae sup Yun, Liang Cheng, Sibel Pamukcu and Yi Dong, In-situ Geo-characterization Using Wireless Functional Signals, in Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2010, San Diego, California, March 7-11 2010.
  • Liang Cheng and Shamim Pakzad, Agility of Wireless Sensor Networks for Earthquake Monitoring of Bridges, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS’09), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, June 17 – 19, 2009. [PDF]
Invited Talks
  • Invited talk on Data-driven and Model-based Analysis for Intelligent Infrastructure, Wayne State University, September 20, 2022 and University of Louisville, October 28, 2022
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