PI2026
IMLS National Leadership Grant
From Records to Knowledge: An Agentic AI Infrastructure for Metadata Intelligence (AIMI)
- Team
- PI: Shao · Co-PI: L. Zhao
- Duration
- 2026–2029
- Award
- $284,729
Grant Projects
Selected externally sponsored and Purdue-funded projects spanning agentic AI, data science education, remote sensing, digital forestry, and library innovation.
Sponsored research
External Grants
Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator
PI2026
Google Research Credits Program
Training a Landsat–Sentinel Super-Resolution Model Using a Mixture of Experts (MoE) Approach
- Role
- PI: Shao
- Duration
- 2026–2027
- Award
- $5,000
PI2025
IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
TACTIC in Lib: Transforming AI Consumers to Innovative AI Creators in Libraries
- Role
- PI: Shao
- Duration
- 2025–2027
- Award
- $148,946
Co-PI2023
NIFA AFRI Sustainable Agricultural Systems Program
Promoting Economic Resilience and Sustainability of the Eastern US Forests (PERSEUS)
- Team
- Co-PI: Shao · PI: S. Fei · Purdue, Maine, and Georgia collaborators
- Duration
- 2023–2028
- Award
- $10,000,000
PI2022
IndianaView Mini Grant
Landsat Remote Sensing Literature Study with Computational Text Analysis
- Funder
- AmericaView, Inc.
- Duration
- March–August 2022
- Award
- $1,500
PI2021
IndianaView Mini Grant
ArcGIS Pro Python Programming Online Tutorial with Indiana Remote Sensing Dataset
- Funder
- AmericaView, Inc.
- Duration
- March–August 2021
- Award
- $1,500
Consultant and Senior Personnel
AI Consultant2026
IMLS Museum Empowered Grant
Building a Smarter Museum: AI-Integrated Curation Excellence and Workforce Development
- Principal Investigator
- K. Bellisario
- Duration
- 2026–2029
- Award
- $255,823
Senior Personnel2026
IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Career Award
Archival Intelligence: Developing Reproducible AI Frameworks for Structural Recovery
- Principal Investigator
- S. Stewart
- Duration
- 2026–2029
- Award
- $421,376
Purdue-supported research
Internal Funding
PI2024
Office of Research · Elevate Research Review Fund
Advancing Remote Sensing through Landsat: A Comprehensive Review of Historical Contributions and Future Applications
- Role
- PI: Shao
- Duration
- 2024–2025
- Award
- $10,000
PI2024
Purdue University Online · CoPILOT
Cohort Program for Innovation and Leadership in Online Teaching
- Role
- PI: Shao
- Award
- $5,000
PI2023
Digital Forestry Seed Funding
Cross-scale image fusion project using super resolution
- Role
- PI: Shao
- Duration
- 2023
- Award
- $23,700
PI2023
Libraries Research Seed Grant
Exploring data management courses in higher education data science programs in the U.S.
- Role
- PI: Shao
- Duration
- 2023
- Award
- $3,996
PI2022
Honors College Faculty Research/Creative Mentorship Grant
Develop AI Applications for Data Science Studies
- Funder
- Purdue Honors College
- Duration
- January–December 2022
- Award
- $10,000