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Congratulations to Dr. Derek Hollenbeck for winning Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

February 4, 2026
Congratulations to Dr. Derek Hollenbeck for winning a Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Merced, beginning February 1, 2026. Congratulations! Dr. Hollenbeck runs the CMERI: https://methane.ucmerced.edu/ Derek Hollenbeck earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical...

MESA Lab welcomes new members for Spring 2026

February 4, 2026
MESA Lab welcomes new members for Spring 2026 Oliver Htway, new graduate student working on CH4Drone and (mercury vapor) HgDrone projects.  Jiale Chen, new exchange Ph.D. student working on (FO)CT4ML https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/ct4ml Created and last updated by Prof....

Prof. Chen was invited to give a seminar at the mathlab.sissa fractional calculus seminar series

November 22, 2025
Prof. Chen was invited to give a seminar at the mathlab.sissa fractional calculus seminar series 12/5/2025 Details are at https://mathlab.sissa.it/roughness-informed-machine-learning-fractal-and-fractional-calculi It will be posted on mathlab.sissa fractional calculus seminar series...

Congratulations to Osama Fuad Abdel Aal for smoothly passing his Ph.D. proposal defence!

November 21, 2025
Congratulations to Osama Fuad Abdel Aal for passing his Ph.D. proposal defence! On 11/20/2025 Thursday 2-4:30pm, Mr. Osama Fuad Abdel Aal successfully passed his PH.D. proposal defence! The committee members are unanimous with special praise to his originality, mathematical rigor and visual...

Congratulations to Mohammad Partohaghighi for passing EECS Ph.D. Proposal Defense

November 21, 2025
Congratulations to Mohammad Partohaghighi for passing EECS Ph.D. Proposal Defense Mr. Mohammad Partohaghighi is now (as of 11/21/2025) a Ph.D. candidate at the EECS Graduate Program. He passed his Ph.D. proposal defence on 10/24/2025. The exam committee gave unanimous pass to Mohammad!...

Congratulations to Rafal Krzysiak for successful Ph.D. dissertation defense.

November 18, 2025
Congratulations to Rafal Krzysiak for successful Ph.D. dissertation defense. On 11/17/2025 Monday 9:00-11:30AM, Rafal Krzysiak successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation winning unanimous pass from his committee members. Rafal's thesis title is: "Smart Health Monitoring...

ECHS student group visit to MESA Lab

October 26, 2025
ECHS student group visit to MESA Lab  On 10/25/25 Friday 3:30-4:30, MESA Lab welcomed and entertained a group of ECHS (El Capitan High School) students for a lab tour. The visit started by an assignments on counting how many drones seen in the lab. Prof. Chen introduced MESA Lab...

Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk at Nxt AI on 11/3 in SF

October 26, 2025
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk at Nxt AI on 11/3 in SF Prof. Chen was invited to give a plenary talk at the International Conference on Next-Generation AI & Machine Learning, November 03-06, 2025 │ Hybrid, San Francisco, CA. The location is at the DoubleTree by Hilton,...

Industrial gift to MESA Lab for biogas POC project

October 26, 2025
Industrial gift to MESA Lab for biogas POC project On October 16 Thur, 2025, Gotion Inc. gave MESA Lab 2 sets of ESS units for energy storage (battery wall) for our proof of concept (POC) grant on using unpurified methane and RotaPower engine to generate electricity as a means for methane...

Dr. Chen was recognized at ASME IDETC/CIE 2025 for MESA Achievement Award

August 29, 2025
Dr. Chen was recognized at ASME IDETC/CIE for MESA Achievement Award on August 18, 2025 in Anaheim, CA  MESA Achievement Award This MESA Committee shall be responsible for conducting a ballot to select a recipient for the MESA Achievement Award. The selection of an individual to receive...

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