Research Funding

Competitive grants and industry-funded research projects supporting multimodal perception, sensor fusion, and intelligent systems.

2021 – 2025  ·  RIKEN, Japan

Guardian Robot Project — Multimodal Learning

Funded by RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan.
Research on multimodal learning, missing modality robustness, weak supervised learning, and audio-visual perception for humanoid social robots. Part of a six-team national collaborative project.

2014 – 2021  ·  Industry Consortium, Japan

Deep Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving

Funded by Toyota Technological Institute, Denso, Nippon Soken, Aisin, Toyota R&D Labs, and Tier IV.
Development of deep learning frameworks for camera, radar, LIDAR, and thermal sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles. Resulted in 7 Japanese patents and 20+ publications.

2011 – 2013  ·  Netherlands

Automatic Camera Calibration & Person Re-identification

Funded by Philips Research and Eagle Vision in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam.
Probabilistic and optimization-based approaches for automatic extrinsic calibration of non-overlapping camera networks and appearance-based person re-identification.

2007 – 2011  ·  UK

Markerless Human Motion Analysis — Ph.D. Funding

Funded by the University of Dundee, UK.
Full doctoral scholarship for research on markerless multi-view human motion tracking and classification using particle swarm optimisation and manifold learning. Research featured in Science Scotland, Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Ongoing Funding Pursuits

Federal

NSF & DARPA

Pursuing grants for multimodal perception robustness, missing modality learning, and sensor fusion for autonomous systems and robotics.

Industry

Automotive & Robotics Partners

Seeking collaborative research agreements with automotive OEMs and robotics companies including Astemo and Denso for sensor fusion R&D.

International

Japan & India Collaborations

Continuing joint research initiatives with RIKEN (Japan), SSN College of Engineering, and REC (India) on multimodal AI for robotics and mobility.