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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 [new site: https://conferences.ifac-control...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

Dr. Chen was invited to give a talk at the CITRIS Autonomy seminar series

October 26, 2024
Dr. Chen was invited to give a talk at the CITRIS Autonomy seminar series on 10/19 Tue. The topic is "Mobile Actuator and Sensor Networks (MAS-net)". Based on over 20 years of related work. UCM VPN needed to see the old pages: http://169.236.9.29/mechatronics.ece.usu.edu/mas-net/...

Congratulations to Rafal Krzysiak and Andrew Amavizca for winning IEEE DTPI2024 Best Student Paper Award.

October 20, 2024
Congratulations to  Rafal Krzysiak  and Andrew Amavizca for winning IEEE DTPI2024 Best Student Paper Award. There is only one Best Student Paper Award for the whole conference.  https://2024.dtpi.org/ The  IEEE DTPI2024 conference final program PDF  ...

Congratulations to Dr. Derek Hollenbeck for CRC Press book project contracted

July 29, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Derek Hollenbeck for CRC Press book project contracted July 29th, 2024. CRC Press awarded a research monograph book project contract with Dr. Derek Hollenbeck as the lead coauthor. The book title is "Smart Environmental Sensing of Methane with Digital Twins:...

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