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Professor Chen will deliver a plenary lecture in France in April 25, 2019.

December 20, 2018
Professor Chen will deliver a plenary lecture in Bourges, France in April 2019. 2019 International Conference on Fractional Calculus Theory and Applications (ICFCTA 2019), APRIL 25, 2019 - APRIL 26, 2019 http://www.lestudium-ias.com/event/2019-international-conference-fractional-...

Congratulations to Michael Haoyu Niu for winning the BIGIDEAS pre-proposal!

December 19, 2018
Congratulations to Michael Haoyu Niu for winning the BIGIDEAS pre-proposal! The reviewers' remarks are extremely encouraging - our creative idea is shining! Past winners on behalf of UC Merced are listed here: https://bigideascontest.org/contests/uc-merced/  all from MESA Lab...

Congratulations to Dr. Terry Tiebiao Zhao for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation!

December 19, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Terry Tiebiao Zhao for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation! (Thesis pdf is here https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j27r2gd) Congratulations Dr. Zhao! "REMOTE SENSING OF WATER STRESS IN ALMOND TREES USING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES" - Well done! Thank you...

Professor Chen is listed in 2018 HCR (highly cited researchers list)

December 19, 2018
Professor Chen is listed in 2018 HCR (highly cited researchers list) It is fun to see the list but I confess: I never tried to squeeze in this HCR list. It's simply a byproduct of our original research efforts over the past years. Thanks to the big data era that tells. ...

Dr. Chen gave an invited talk at "Drones: Technology, Policy, and Society" conference at UC Berkeley

October 25, 2018
Drones: Technology, Policy, and Society A joint Honeywell and CITRIS and the Banatao Institute sponsored conference at UC Berkeley Conference Chairs-Professor Claire Tomlin (UC Berkeley) and Sudip Mukhopadhyay (Honeywell Fellow) Thursday, October 18, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm PT Banatao...

One of Dr. Chen's dreams has come true - Embedded RIOTS and Edge MPC

October 25, 2018
I have a long history hobby of collecting optimization codes/programs since 1985 when I took "Numerical Algorithms" from my then MSc thesis mentor, Professor Zaikang Qi, at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), all in English!! I soon realized the difference between static...

Congratulations to Derek Hollenbeck for winning NSF NRT extended fellowship

October 25, 2018
Congratulations to Derek Hollenbeck for winning NSF NRT extended fellowship for Spring 2019 and Summer 2019. Derek was the recipient of NSF NRT Fellowship for Fall 2017, Spring 2018 and Summer 2018. More information can be found at www.nrt-ias.org  Last updated 10/25/2018.

$4M USDA NIFA SCRI grant involves MESA Lab crop phenotyping work

October 25, 2018
$4M USDA NIFA SCRI grant involves MESA Lab crop phenotyping work using both remote sensing and proximate sensing! The PI is UC ANR Kearny Dr. Andreas Westphal, Assistant Nematologist, Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center. Project title is "Putting phenotypic and genotypic...

Prof. Chen serves as NoDy Topical Associate Editor and Nodycon 2019 International Advisory Committee

September 11, 2018
Prof. Chen serves as NoDy Topical Associate Editor and Nodycon 2019 International Advisory Committee https://www.springer.com/engineering/mechanics/journal/11071?detailsPage=editorialBoard to handle most fractional order dynamics, systems and controls papers submitted to Nonlinear Dynamics...

Congratulations to Dr. Prof. Brandon Stark!

September 11, 2018
Please join me to congratuate Dr. Brandon Stark, MESA Lab's former Founding Manager and Ph.D. student,  for being approved by the Senate CAP (Committee on Academic Personnel) as the afffiliate faculty member of Mechnical Engineering Dept. of School of Engineering, UC Merced. Prof. Stark...

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