Yalong Pi

FUNDING

External: 

  1. [NSF 10/2025-09/2028] National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: Empowering STEM Education by Creating Benchmarking Models for Generative Artificial Intelligence Learning Assistants. PI: Namgyun Kim. Co-PIs: Yalong Pi, Dae Seok Chai, Nicholas Duffield, Kunhee Choi. Total $225,043 / Pi $16,232.
  2. [NVIDIA 2025-2026] NVIDIA. Advancing Precision Livestock Management: NVIDIA-Powered Computer Vision System for Bovine Respiratory Disease Detection. PI: Karun Kaniyamattam. Co-PI: Yalong Pi, Jian Tao. Total $ 32,000 computing hours on Saturn Cloud.
  3. [USDA-NIFA 2023-2026] United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Harnessing Precision Livestock Farming to Support Smart Agriculture for Sustainable Beef Cattle Production. PI: Luis Tedeschi. Co-PIs: Jian Tao, Nicholas Duffield, Yalong Pi, Karun Kaniyamattam. Total: $106,766. 
  4. [OneGulf 2023-2025] Texas One Gulf Center of Excellence. Towards Targeted Risk Mitigation: Community Engaged, Fast Impact Estimation of Extreme Weather using Big Social and Climate Data. PI: David Retchless, Co-PIs: Xinyue Ye, Yalong Pi, Nicholas Duffield, and Wesley Highfield. Total $532,988 / Pi $154,472.   
  5. [Microsoft 2021-2022] Microsoft AI for Humanitarian Action Project Initiatives. Rapid damage prediction from social media using historical big data and deep learning. PI: Yalong Pi. Co-PIs: Nick Duffield, Xinyue Ye, and Jisu Cao. Total: $150,000 USD of Azure credits. 

Internal:

  1. [TAMIDS 2026-2027] Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. Generative AI Learning Assistance for Improving Students’ Construction Plan Reading Skills. PI: Namgyun Kim. Co-PI: Yalong Pi. Total $2,000 + 5,000 OpenAI credits.
  2. [AgriLife 2025-2026] Texas A&M AgriLife Research. A hybrid framework for combining precision livestock technology and decision modeling for disease prediction in beef systems. PI: Karun Kaniyamattam. Co-PIs: Luis Tedeschi, Renaldo Cooke, Gizem Levent, Yalong Pi. Total $47,459.
  3. [TAMIDS 2025-2027] Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. An Integrated Digital Twin and Computer Vision Model for a Proactive Work Zone Intrusion Warning System. PI: Namgyun Kim. Co-PI: Yalong Pi. Total $20,000 / Pi $10,000.
  4. [TAMIDS 2025-2026] Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. Data Science Course Development Award. PI: Karun Kaniyamattam. Co-PI: Yalong Pi. Total $ 15,000 / Pi $5,000.
  5. [TAMIDS 2024-2026] Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. Developing a Computer Vision Data Pipeline for Bovine Respiratory Disease Prediction in Beef Cattle. PI: Karun Kaniyamattam. Co-PI: Yalong Pi. Total $ 40,000 / Pi $20,000.