[3] In 2022, Qi was a part of a team using a $1 million grant to produce and implement a computer vision system to monitor poultry production.
The project aims to create a computer vision system to monitor animal-based measures in real time.
Although similar projects have been undertaken for larger animals, researchers state that poultry are more difficult due to their smaller size and higher populations.
The team for this project includes Yang Zhao, Robert Burns, Hao Gan, Shawn Hawkins, Daniel Berckmans, Maria Prado and Hairong Qi.
Qi was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2018 "for contributions to collaborative signal processing in sensor networks".