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Osama and Shiang presented posters at the MAE Graduate Symposium

February 6, 2026
Osama and Shiang presented posters at the MAE Graduate Symposium   Friday 2/6/2026 8:30-1pm UCM Conference Center. Second Annual MAE Dept. Graduate Symposium. Osama presented a conprehensive poster entitled "The Interplay Between Control Theory and Optimization" [PDF] and...

Prof. Chen was invited to give a seminar for BLS (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

February 5, 2026
On Jan. 18, 2026, Dr. Chen was invited to give a seminar for BLS (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) entitled "An Introduction to Fractional Order Thinking and Roughness-Informed Fractional Order Processing of Complex Signals".  Title: An Introduction to Fractional Order Thinking...

MESA Lab is selected to offer COSMOS track on Digital Twins

February 5, 2026
MESA Lab is selected to offer COSMOS (California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science) track on Digital Twins   See our event website at https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/cosmos-dt Event starts on July 5th (Sunday), end on August 1st (Sat.). First UCM COSMOS...

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...

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...

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