YIP: Autonomy Learning from Heterogeneous Experiences (ALEX) [ONR #N000142612292]
Funding: $742,598 for 5/26-4/29 (2026 YIP Recipients)
PI: Md Jahidul Islam Program Officer: Dr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy.
FRR: Underwater Robot Navigation and Localization During Recovery by Optical Homing and Penning [NSF #2330416]
Funding: $599,503 for 9/24-8/27
PI: Md Jahidul Islam Co-PIs: Sanjeev Koppal and Jane Shin
Securing Underwater Data Centers from Acoustic Attacks: Defense Systems Surveillance Capabilities [ONR #N000142412596]
Funding: $759,082 for 9/24-8/27
PI: Md Jahidul Islam Co-PI: Sara Rampazzi
Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-RM: Human-in-the-Lead Construction Robotics: Future‐Proofing Framing Craft Workers in Industrialized Construction [NSF #2326159]
Funding: $699,570 for 10/23-9/27
PI: Aladdin Alwisy Co-PIs: Bryan Willam Franz, Md Jahidul Islam and Boyi Hu
Low-light Rolling Shutter Imagery for Robot Motion [Amazon Robotics]
Funding: $220,000 for 6/25-12/26
PI: Sanjeev Koppal Co-PIs: Md Jahidul Islam and Damon Woodward
AIIRI: Site Sentinel: A risk-aware intervention loop for conversational safety robotics on construction sites
[The Artificial Intelligence & Informatics Research Institute]
Funding: $55,176 for 5/26-4/27
PI: Dr. Idris Jeelani Co-PI: Md Jahidul Islam
Microprocessort Applications-2 Course Development at ECE UF
Funding: $200,000 ($50K/yr 2023-2027)
PI: Md Jahidul Islam
Autonomous Robots Course Development at ECE UF
Funding: $50,000 ($25K/yr 2025-26)
PI: Md Jahidul Islam
Completed Projects
DRPD-ROSF2023:Nemo-Gator: Developing Edge-AI Capabilities for a Biomimetic Fishlike Robot for Long-term Monitoring of Coastal Ecosystems (US Research Opportunity Seed Fund 2023)
Funding: $90,000 for 10/23-3/26
PI: Md Jahidul Islam Co-PIs: Roy P.E. Yanong and William Frank Patterson