Vedhus Hoskere's current research interests are highly interdisciplinary, at the intersection of civil engineering, computer science and robotics. His doctoral work at the University of Illinois with Billie F. Spencer Jr. focused on developing artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision solutions for rapid and automated civil infrastructure inspection and monitoring. For his research toward automated post-earthquake building inspections, Hoskere received the Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship in 2018.