Congratulations to Sachin Giri Selected as Top-10 Finalists for IGARSS 2026 Student Paper Competition
The Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab is proud to announce that PhD student Sachin Giri has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Student Paper Competition...
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April 20, 2026
April 20, 2026
The 1st International Online Conference on Fractal and Fractional (IOCFF) (S5: "Fractional Calculus in Machine Learning: Applications and Challenges") was successfully held on 4/15/2025.
S5 "Fractional Calculus in Machine Learning: Applications and...
April 18, 2026
NorCal Control 2026 presentations/posters
https://sites.google.com/csumb.edu/8th-norcal-ctrl-workshop/home
4/17/2028 MESA Lab members attended the NorCal Control 2026 at the California State University, Monterey Bay campus University Center with the following presentations (...
April 13, 2026
IFAC World Congress 2026 accepted papers
Congratulations!
State estimation for a class of 2-D semilinear distributed parameter systems using boundary collocated outputs (Fudong Ge)
Improved PINNs for solving forward and inverse problems of nonlinear fractional-order diffusion PDEs (...
March 5, 2026
Congratulations to Oliver Htway for winning CAMP award
On 2/23/2026, Oliver was awarded by California Alliance for Maximixing Potential (CAPM) in Irvine and placed 1st in engineering category.
Plaque photo and poster PDF:
Poster PDF: PDF poster (updated)
His ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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