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Congratulations to Osama Fuad Abdel Aal for passing the ME Ph.D. Preliminary Exam with distinction!

April 9, 2025
Congratulations to Osama Fuad Abdel Aal <oabdelaal@ucmerced.edu> for passing the ME Ph.D. preliminary exam!   Osama joined MESA Lab in Fall 2022. He passed with distinction at 9/10 level. Congratulations! Next step: Ph.D. candidacy, dissertation proposal defense, final dissertation...

Prof. Chen was invited to serve the CA DIR Autonomous Agricultural Tractors Advisory Committee

March 29, 2025
Prof. Chen was invited to serve the CA DIR Autonomous Agricultural Tractors Advisory Committee Since 2025, Prof. Chen was invited to serve the CA DIR Autonomous Agricultural Tractors. At the November 21, 2024 Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (OSHSB) meeting (OSHSB...

MESA Lab Alumnus Jonathan Gonzalez won the Capstone Prize - Congratulations!

March 22, 2025
MESA Lab Alumnus Jonathan Gonzalez won the Capstone Prize - Congratulations! Jonathan Gonzalez was our paid undergraduate research interns and a ME195 class member, a Digital Twin class (ME190) member. He works with Ph.D. student Shiang Cao and other MESA Lab members on material...

Dr. Chen gave a short talk on "Precision Ag via Drones, XAIoT and DTs"

March 21, 2025
Short talk on "Precision Ag via Drones, XAIoT and DTs" On 3/20/2025 noon Dr. Chen gave a short talk on "Precision Ag via Drones, XAIoT and DT". Event flyer is here. Slides are here PPTs (116.41 MB) or PDF  (116.41 MB). Related links: MESA Lab...

We won DOE MSIPP award again.

March 2, 2025
We won DOE MSIPP award again! Congratulations! Title: Development and testing of small unmanned aerial systems for real-time detection of methane leaks and mercury emissions Program: Department of Energy – Office of Environmental Management Minority Serving Institutions...

Prof. Chen invited to serve IPC Chair for ICFDA2025 in Algier Algeria

March 2, 2025
Prof. Chen invited to serve IPC Chair for ICFDA2025 in Algier Algeria  Prof. Chen was invited to serve IPC Chair for the 13th IFAC Conference on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Algiers, Algeria, December 15-17, 2025  Prof. Chen served ICFDA community as the...

Professor Chen was appointed as editorial board member of JVC (J of Vibration and Control)

February 26, 2025
Professor Chen was appointed by the Editor-In-Chief Prof. Mohamed Trabia as an editorial board member of JVC - Journal of Vibration and Control from 2025 to 2028. https://journals.sagepub.com/editorial-board/JVC It's an honor to serve JVC - where there are hundreds of papers related...

We won the DOE methane funding!

December 22, 2024
We won the DOE methane funding! It is a 44 months long program. Total $20M project from $850M total DOE Methane program with the leading partner of IBM. Congratulations! Dr. Derek Hollenbeck spearheaded the proposal writing with IBM and other partners in the summer.  See detailed news...

Congratulations to Shiang Cao for his first journal paper published!

December 22, 2024
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10810372  [local PDF file] Title: Data-Driven Controllability and Controller Designs for Nabla Fractional Order Systems Abstract: This paper presents a data-driven approach to assess the controllability of nabla...

MESA Lab Congratulates Justus Nwoke and Rafal Krzysiak for passing Ph.D. qualifying exams

November 26, 2024
MESA Lab Congratulates Justus Nwoke and Rafal Krzysiak for passing Ph.D. qualifying exams! Then they will be entitled to "Ph.D. Candidate", aka "ABD" (all but dissertation) then "Ph.D." after 6-12 months usually.  11/25/2024. 10-12am. Rafal Krzysiak. Title:...

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