Embodied AI for Robotics
Dr. Eric Jing Du is Steve and Wendy Blum Professor and UF Research Foundation Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida. Before joining University of Florida in January 2019, he was a faculty member at Texas A&M University, and a senior production analyst at Zachry Industrial in San Antonio, TX. His primary area of research is human-robot collaboration and automation. His ongoing projects involve the use of embodied AI and robotics to enhance construction automation. With his colleagues, Dr. Du has secured more than $12 million in federal funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Dr. Du has published more than 200 refereed journal and conference papers, including several best paper awards from high impact journals. Dr. Du is the elected Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Visualization, Information Modeling and Simulation (VIMS) committee, and serves on the editorial board of three journals. Dr. Du received his PhD degree in construction management from Michigan State University (2012), master's degree in Enterprise Management (2007) and bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (2004), both from Tianjin University in China.