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Summer/Fall 2023 MESA Lab papers presented

August 12, 2023
A busy summer/fall 2023! MESA Lab presented some of the latest results in various international conferences. Here are the details of the 36 papers.  ICFDA2023: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10152864/proceeding?isnumber=10153152&sortType=vol-only-seq&searchWithin=yangquan...

Congratualtions to MESA Lab for winning $1M UCM Climate Action Seed funding on CMERI

May 1, 2023
Congratualtions to MESA Lab for winning $1M UCM Climate Action Seed funding on CMERI (Center for Methane Emission Research and Innovation)!   More info at https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/methane Starting date: 6/1/2023; ending date: 5/31/2025 (two years). $1M with no IDC. Call...

Congratualtions to Di An and Shiang Cao for winning F3 (DOC BBB) GSR grants

May 1, 2023
Congratualtions to Di An and Shiang Cao for winning F3 (DOC BBB) GSR grants each with 2 semester's GSRs valued at more than $100,000. Introduction & Program Description: The objective of the Farms Food Future Innovation Initiative (or F3), as funded by US Dept. of Commerce (DOC),...

Congratulations to Derek Hollenbeck for his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense

April 28, 2023
Congratulations to Derek Hollenbeck for his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense on April 27, 2023, Thursday. The total time used was 90 min. The vote was unanimous to pass. Committee members were impressed.  Event flyer PDF Title: Digital Twin Enabled Collective Sensing and Steering for...

2nd PNAS paper published - congratulations!

April 28, 2023
March 2023. Multiple models for outbreak decision support in the face of uncertainty. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207537120 Jan. 2022. Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas....

MESA Lab welcomes Visiting Professor Norelys Aguila Camacho from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana Chile

January 20, 2023
MESA Lab welcomes Visiting  Professor Norelys Aguila Camacho from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana Chile Dr. Prof. Norelys Aguila (norelys.aguila@utem.cl) our short term visiting professor delivered a seminar on Monday Jan. 16th from 5-6:30pm on "Fractional Order Adaptive Control...

Hello 2023! 2022 MESA Lab updates

January 10, 2023
Hello 2023! MESA Lab 2022 updates   First of all, welcome two new Ph.D. students joined MESA Lab in Fall 2022. Osama and Shiang, welcome! Dr. Chen's sabbatical year ends Aug. 2023. 1/9/2023, Monday 5-6:30pm we had our first lab meeting. Welcome our visiting professor Dr. Norelys...

Prof. Chen was invited to serve on new journal inauguration editorial boards

January 10, 2023
Prof. Chen was invited to serve on the following new journal inauguration editorial boards: Elsevier, Journal of Automation and Intelligence, Open access, editorial board Elsevier, Journal of Information and Intelligence (INTECOM), Open access, editorial board Springer,...

Four papers accepted to appear at ICUAS2022 - congratulations!

May 11, 2022
Four papers accepted to appear at ICUAS2022 - congratulations!   The 2022 Int´l Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems ICUAS ’22 | June 21-24, 2022 | Dubrovnik, Croatia Di An (107392), Derek Hollenbeck (78354), Si Gao (120746), YangQuan Chen* (...

Two MESA Lab research monographs in production (Springer)

May 6, 2022
Two MESA Lab research monographs in production (Springer) It is a great pleasure to anounce that two MESA Lab research monographs in production as of May 2022 (both by Springer). Congratulations to Dr. Viola and Dr. Niu! The details are listed below. "Digital Twin Enabled Smart...

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