The total budget of the funded research projects is $1,906,425, and LI’s budget share is $676,221.
Current
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: MEDIUM: AI-DRIVEN CYBER-PHYSICAL HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS FOR PRECISION POULTRY FARMING. Role: Co-PI (PI-Ramviyas Nattanmai Parasuraman). Sponsor: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Amount: $1,000,000 (09/2024-08/2027). Project number: 2024-67021-43694.
SalmonellaDetector: A Mobile Application for On-site Broiler Salmonella Infection Diagnosis. Role: Co-PI (PI-Adelumola Oladeinde). Sponsor: USDA Agricultural Research Service. Amount: $50,000 (06/2024-06/2026).
SalmonellaDetector: A Mobile Application for On-site Broiler Salmonella Infection Diagnosis. Role: PI. Sponsor: US Poultry & Egg Association. Amount: $79,936 (07/2024-06/2026). Project number: F-114.
An Artificial Intelligence-assisted Gait Scoring System for Individual Broilers in Group Settings. Role: PI. Sponsor: Cobb Research Initiative launched by Cobb-Vantress (08/2023-09/2025).
Completed
An Artificial Intelligence-assisted Multimodal Robot for Searching, Localizing, and Collecting Floor Eggs for Poultry. Role: PI. Sponsor: Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Amount: $5,000 (11/2024-06/2025). Project number: 8750.
ACQUISITION OF A SHARED-USE TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY AND IMAGING EQUIPMENT TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN INTEGRATED PRECISION AGRICULTURE. Role: Co-PI (PI-Christopher Kucha). Sponsor: Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Amount: $30,000 (11/2024-06/2025)
Development of a Web-based Artificial Intelligence System for Analyzing Broiler Activity Index. Role: PI. Sponsor: US Poultry & Egg Association. Amount: $47,305 (10/2023-02/2025). Project number: F-113.
Agriculture Robotics VIP Team. Role: PI. Sponsor: Office of Instruction and Office of Research. Amount: $12,000 (06/2024-06/2025).
Hyperspectral systems for precision poultry sensing. Role: PI. Sponsor: USDA Agricultural Research Service. Amount: $8,397.84 (gift from Dr. Adelumola Oladeinde) (06/2024-11/2024).
PRECISIONDETECT (PD): AI-Enhanced Hyperspectral Imaging for Early Chicken Egg Fertility Detection. Role: Co-PI (PI-Christopher Kucha). Sponsor: Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Amount: $30,000 (12/2023-06/2024).
Mobile Sensing for Precision Poultry Disease Management. Role: PI. Sponsor: Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Amount: $5,000 (12/2023-06/2024). Project number: 1941.
EggPicker: A mobile robotic system for identifying, localizing, and collecting floor eggs in cage-free hen housing environments. Role: PI. Sponsor: Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Amount: $30,000 (12/2023-06/2024). Project number: 2528.
Precision Farming Frameworks for Climate Smart Poultry Production. Role: Co-PI (PI-Lilong Chai). Sponsor: Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Amount: $150,000 (04/2023-06/2023).
Testing draft EPA models for swine emissions of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and particulate matter. Role: Co-PI (PI-Richard S. Gates). Sponsor: National Pork Board. Amount: $36,000 (05/2022-12/2023).
Assessing the Draft EPA Laying Hen Emissions Models. Role: Co-PI (PI-Richard S. Gates). Sponsor: American Egg Board. Amount: $20,000 (01/2022-06/2023).
Evaluating draft EPA models for broiler emissions of ammonia and particulate matter. Role: Co-PI (PI-Richard S. Gates). Sponsor: US Poultry & Egg Association. Amount: $25,000 (05/2022-06/2023).
Publication fee waiver
The following articles were applied with publication fee waiver/discounts due to LI’s academic reputation.
| Date | Journal | Waived amount (discount) | Article title |
| 04/2025 | Animals | $2,897 (100%) | Separating Chickens’ Heads and Legs in Thermal Images via Object Detection and Machine Learning Models to Predict Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease |
| 10/2024 | AgriEngineering | $1,850 (100%) | Quantifying Nesting Behavior Metrics of Broiler Breeder Hens with Computationally Efficient Image Processing Algorithms and Big Data Analytics |
| 07/2023 | Animals | $1,000 (50%) | Early Detection of Avian Diseases Based on Thermography and Artificial Intelligence |
| 02/2023 | Animals | $1,000 (50%) | Tracking and Characterizing Spatiotemporal and Three-Dimensional Locomotive Behaviors of Individual Broilers in the Three-Point Gait-Scoring System |
| 06/2022 | Animals | $1,000 (50%) | Individual Beef Cattle Identification Using Muzzle Images and Deep Learning Techniques |
| 08/2021 | Sensors | $2,000 (100%) | Classifying ingestive behavior of dairy cows via automatic sound recognition |