Rate My Professor Yong Pei

Pei's research interests focus on both basic and applied areas in computing, including Human-AI Teaming, distributed collaborations, AIOps, AI/ML/NLP/CV, AR/VR/XR, HCI, IUX, serious games, mobile and sensory technologies. His interdisciplinary research has been supported by over 30 grants from federal and state agencies as well as industry partners, receiving coverage in outlets such as American Inno, NPR, The New York Times, RAND Corporation, and U.S. News & World Report. Notable honors include leading a Wright State University team to the Ohio Collegiate Venture Showcase in 2017 and receiving the top prize in the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge, a worldwide competition for innovative technologies to combat the opioid crisis, in 2018. Key publications encompass early work on wireless networks such as "On the capacity improvement of ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas" (Yi, Pei, Kalyanaraman, 2003; 685 citations), "How is the capacity of ad hoc networks improved with directional antennas?" (Yi, Pei, Kalyanaraman, Azimi-Sadjadi, 2007; 66 citations), and more recent contributions like "Large language models performance comparison of emotion and sentiment classification" (Stigall, Al Hafiz Khan, Attota, Nweke, Pei, 2024; 33 citations), "Advancing motivational interviewing training with artificial intelligence: ReadMI" (Hershberger, Pei, Bricker, Crawford, Shivakumar et al., 2021; 27 citations), and "An interactive game with virtual reality immersion to improve cultural sensitivity in health care" (Hershberger, Pei, Crawford, Neeley, Wischgoll, Patel et al., 2022; 20 citations).