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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...

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...

Congratulations to Jairo Viola for his successful defense of Ph.D. dissertation on 4/26/2022

May 4, 2022
Congratulations to Jairo Viola for his successful defense of Ph.D. dissertation on 4/26/2022 A flyer for this event is shown in this PDF file.  flyer_template_jairo_viola1.pdf (more of his work is documented on this site: http://www.TheEdgeAI.com)     Mechanical...

Prof. Chen gave two public talks in April 2022

April 16, 2022
Prof. Chen gave two public talks in April 2022 4/5/2022. UFC (Unversity Friends Circle) luncheon seminar on "Drone engineering research" together with Ph.D. students Derek, Justus, Rafal. [ppt 123Mb] 4/8/2022. The Engineering PhD Program majoring in Automation, Control and Process...

Haoyu Niu Ph.D. Dissertation Defense info

March 15, 2022
Congratulations to Haoyu for successully defending his Ph.D. dissertation! Updated 3/19/22. Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:00 AM-11:00 AM https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/4529169801 PDF of the flyer Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Smart Big Data in...

Prof. Chen was named Editor-in-Chief for Drones "Agriculture and Forestry" section

January 22, 2022
Prof. Chen was named Editor-in-Chief for Drones "Agriculture and Forestry" section. Official Announcement https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/3439 (fun to read) and scopes: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/drones/sectioneditors/drones_in_agriculture_forestry Drones will get its...

MESA Lab welcomes new members in Spring 2022

January 15, 2022
MESA Lab welcomes new members in Spring 2022 MESA Lab welcomes new members in Spring 2022: New Ph.D. student (ME), Rafal Krzysiak, (MSc. degree from NIU 2021). Focus: Smart sensors and smart sensing methods for mTLS. SSI (student success interns) Michael Difrieri (Graduate...

Congratulations to Derek, Haoyu and Di for winning the first CITRIS Aviation Award

January 15, 2022
Congratulations to Derek, Haoyu and Di for winning the first CITRIS Aviation Award Detailed news can be found Here. $2000 plus $25000 awards! Congratulations! Look forward to the 125 miles flight in May in Merced Vernal Pool. Created and updated 1/15/2022.

Congratulations to Di for winning BIGIDEA preproposal competition!

January 15, 2022
Congratulations to Di for winning BIGIDEA preproposal competition as a finalist! It is an honor to be on top 10% of 200 or so submissions. It is about portable soil carbon sensing. Created and updated on 1/15/2022

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