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)
• 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

Peer-reviewed Research Publications in Transportation Systems

• 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
• 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]
• 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]
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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]