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Each year, the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, or CAREER, awards grants to “early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.” The following story is part of a series highlighting Michigan State University’s recipients of NSF’s 2021 CAREER grant awards.
This Spartan engineer is working to improve safety by using the power of the cloud and the data cars are already collecting
For an engineer who spends so much time with his head in the cloud, Michigan State University’s Zhaojian Li
is remarkably grounded.
Li is taking today’s high technology — pairing cloud computing with 5G cellular data networks — and putting it to work for the average driver. With the support of a 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER grant, Li and his team are connecting vehicles with the cloud to make roads safer and improve cars’ performance and ride comfort.
To automotive purists, this may sound like highfalutin technobabble, but Li’s plan is firmly rooted in pragmatism. Having spent two years at General Motors before coming to MSU, Li is attuned to the desires and sensibilities of drivers. His project is about doing more with the data that cars already collect and using it to protect drivers, their pocketbooks and the planet.
“The general idea is to combine the resources of the on-road vehicles and the cloud,” says Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “By using cloud computing, we create more possibilities. It opens up better control and performance for all the vehicles that are connected. The goal is to make vehicles safer and greener.” …
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