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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...

Congratulations to Sachin Giri, Rafal Krzysiak, Derek Hollenbeck for ASME IDETC MESA2025 Best Paper Award

August 29, 2025
Congratulations to Sachin Giri, Rafal Krzysiak, Derek Hollenbeck for ASME IDETC MESA2025 Best Paper Award! There is only  Best Paper award for MESA 2025 this year.  IDETC2025-168671 AVIRIS-NG-like smart virtual remote sensing via spectra-aware physics informed GANs by...

First Fractional Calculus and Machine Learning Miniworkshop done!

July 1, 2025
First Fractional Calculus and Machine Learning Miniworkshop June 28th, 2025, Saturday The miniworkshop was a big success. Attendants were specially invited by the host/convener Prof. YangQuan Chen: Prof. Dr. Necdet Sinan OZBEK <nozbek@atu.edu.tr> Dr. Jairo Viola (...

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...

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