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Congratulations to Shiang Cao for passing his Ph.D. dissertation proposal defense!

May 3, 2025
Congratulations to Shiang Cao for passing his Ph.D. dissertation proposal defense! Shiang has passed his Ph.D. dissertation proposal defense on May 2, 2025. His committee members are Prof. Jian-Qiao Sun, Prof. Francesco Danzi, Prof. Ricardo de Castro, Prof. Roummel Marcia. The vote to pass the...

Congratulations to Justus Nwoke for winning GEM Fellowship!

May 3, 2025
Congratulations to Justus Nwoke for winning GEM fellowship! Justus Nwoke won the prestigious GEM Fellowship (https://www.gemfellowship.org/). Congratulations! "GEM offers MS and Ph.D. level students an outstanding opportunity and access to dozens of the top Engineering and Science firms...

Congratulations to Justus Nwoke for the ME Best Teaching Assistant Award!

May 3, 2025
Congratulations to Justus Nwoke for the ME Best Teaching Assistant Award of 2025! It is a great pleasure to announce that Justus Nwoke for winning the ME Best Teaching Assistant Award! Justus worked hard to have created ME190 (ME152) Digital Twin (4cr.) labs successfully offerred in...

7th NorCal Control Workshop at UC Davis - 4 posters from MESA Lab

April 24, 2025
7th NorCal Control Workshop - 4 posters from MESA Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/ucdavis.edu/7th-norcal-control-workshop [4/25/2025] [Last year 2024 was in UC Merced https://sites.google.com/view/6thnorcalcontrolworkshop] Authors/Title/Presenter/Abstract: Rafal Krzysiak...

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...

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...

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...

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