The total budget of the funded research projects is $2,370,425, and LI’s budget share is $1,140,221.
Current
Parasuraman, R. N., Li, G., Pidaparti, R. M., Fairchild, B., Peschel, J. 09/2024-08/2027. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: MEDIUM: AI-DRIVEN CYBER-PHYSICAL HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS FOR PRECISION POULTRY FARMING. $1,000,000. USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Project number: 2024-67021-43694.
Oladeinde, A., Li, G., Aggrey, S.E. 06/2024-06/2026. SalmonellaDetector: A Mobile Application for On-site Broiler Salmonella Infection Diagnosis. $50,000. USDA Agricultural Research Service.
Li, G., Oladeinde, A., Aggrey, S.E. 07/2024-06/2026. SalmonellaDetector: A Mobile Application for On-site Broiler Salmonella Infection Diagnosis. $79,936. US Poultry & Egg Association. Project number: F-114.
Li, G., Regmi, P., Chai, L., Wilson, J.L., Kim, W. 08/2023-09/2025. An Artificial Intelligence-assisted Gait Scoring System for Individual Broilers in Group Settings. Cobb Research Initiative launched by Cobb-Vantress.
Completed
Li, G., Parasuraman, R. N., Lu, G., Rasheed, K., Aggrey, S.E., Mani, S., Fairchild, B. 11/2024-06/2025. An Artificial Intelligence-assisted Multimodal Robot for Searching, Localizing, and Collecting Floor Eggs for Poultry. $5,000. Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Project number: 8750.
Kucha, C., Usack, J., Li, G., Mohan, A., Mahmud, M.S. 11/2024-06/2025. ACQUISITION OF A SHARED-USE TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY AND IMAGING EQUIPMENT TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN INTEGRATED PRECISION AGRICULTURE. $30,000. Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture.
Li, G., Chai, L., Ramaswamy, L.M. Development of a Web-based Artificial Intelligence System for Analyzing Broiler Activity Index. 10/2023-02/2025. $47,305. US Poultry & Egg Association. Project number: F-113.
Mahmud, M.S., Lu, G., Li, G. 06/2024-06/2025. Agriculture Robotics VIP Team. $12,000. Office of Instruction and Office of Research.
Li, G., Oladeinde, A. 06/2024-11/2024. Hyperspectral systems for precision poultry sensing. $8,397.84 (gift). Sponsor: USDA Agricultural Research Service.
Kucha, C., Li, G., Doshi, P., Mohan, A., Kong, F. 12/2023-06/2024. PRECISIONDETECT (PD): AI-Enhanced Hyperspectral Imaging for Early Chicken Egg Fertility Detection. $30,000. Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture.
Li, G., Oladeinde, A., Aggrey, S.E., Mahmud, M.S., Chai, L., Liu, T., Niu, W., Kucha, C., Parasuraman, R.N., Pidaparti, R.M. 10/2023-10/2024. Mobile Sensing for Precision Poultry Disease Management. $5,000. Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Project number: 1941.
Li, G., Parasuraman, R. N., Pidaparti, R. M. 12/2023-06/2024. EggPicker: A mobile robotic system for identifying, localizing, and collecting floor eggs in cage-free hen housing environments. $30,000. Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. Project number: 2528.
Chai, L., Regmi, P., Li, G. 04/2023-12/2023. Precision Farming Frameworks for Climate Smart Poultry Production. $150,000. Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture.
Li, G., Ji, B. 12/2022-12/2023. “Automated Prediction of Phenotypic Traits for Commercial Swine Breeding Management via a Three-Dimensional Scanning System”. Pig Improvement Company.
Gates, R., Ramirez, B., Xiong, Y., Li, G., Burns, R. 05/2022-12/2023. “Testing draft EPA models for swine emissions of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter”. $36,000. National Pork Board.
Gates, R., Ramirez, B., Xiong, Y., Li, G. 01/2022-06/2023. “Assessing the Draft EPA Laying Hen Emissions Models”. $20,000. American Egg Board.
Gates, R., Ramirez, B., Xiong, Y., Li, G., Burns, R. 05/2022-06/2023. “Evaluating draft EPA models for broiler emissions of ammonia and particulate matter”. $25,000. US Poultry & Egg Association.
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 |