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Prof. Chen's invited lectures in recent weeks

November 15, 2021
Prof. Chen was invited to deliver several presentations (plenary talks, seminars and lectures). Many were committed long time ago but many were only delayed to happen in recent weeks due to pandemic. Here is a partial list: 10/18/2021. "Smart Control Engineering (SCE) Enabled by Digital...

Congratulations to Derek and Demitrius for publishing an invited review paper in Drones

October 17, 2021
Congratulations to Derek and Demitrius for publishing an invited review paper in Drones: Hollenbeck, Derek, Demitrius Zulevic, and Yangquan Chen. 2021. "Advanced Leak Detection and Quantification of Methane Emissions Using sUAS" Drones 5, no. 4: 117. https://doi.org/10.3390/...

Congratulations to Furkan Guc for passing the ME Preliminary Exam!

October 17, 2021
Congratulations to Furkan Guc for passing the ME Preliminary Exam! Furkan Guc joined MESA Lab Jan. 2021. Congrats to his first attempt passing the exam. It is not easy. He achieved the following while preparing the exam. We expect him more focus on orginal research from now on with even more...

Congratulations to Jairo, Derek and Carlos for IEEE CCTA 2021 Student Best Paper Finalist (pdf, ppts, mp4)

October 3, 2021
The IEEE 2021 Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) Best Student Paper Award finalist. Jairo Viola, Derek Hollenbeck and Carlos Rodriguez for the paper entitled: “Fractional-Order Stochastic Extremum Seeking Control with Dithering Noise for Plasma Impedance Matching...

Congratulations to Jairo for DTPI-2021 Outstanding Paper Award (pdf, mp4)

September 22, 2021
 Congratulations to Jairo for DTPI-2021 Outstanding Paper Award (award certificate) "The digital twins (DT) and parallel intelligence recently play a central technological role in the emerging global scientific and research communities on intelligent systems." Our MESA Lab has a...

MESA Lab welcomes new members Fall 2021

September 20, 2021
MESA Lab welcomes new members Fall 2021!   We are pleased to welcome the following new members: New Ph.D. student: Justus Nwoke (ME), Fall 2021. Independent study undergraduate researchers (mentors): Abraham Avendano (Di) Romeo Marroquin Ajcac (Di) Demitrius...

MESA Lab won 2 SSI awards

September 20, 2021
It is a pleasure to share the good news that we won 2 SSI awards so we can create two new summer paid interns. SSI program deilas can be found here. "The Student Success Internship (SSI) program, now in its 7th year, provides UC Merced departments the opportunity to design internship...

IEEE CDC 2021 Preconference Workshop accepted on "Smart Control Engineering"

September 20, 2021
IEEE CDC 2021 Preconference Workshop accepted - it is hard to get it in. A Half Day Tutorial On "Smart Control Engineering (SCE), Digital Twins, and Industrial AI (IAI) – A New Research Frontier" https://2021.ieeecdc.org/workshops/ (O1), Dec. 12, 2021, Sunday, 1-5pm....

2021 American Control Conferenece preconference tutorial W3: Advanced big data analytics for control performance assessment in Industry 4.0 era

May 7, 2021
W3: Advanced big data analytics for control performance assessment in Industry 4.0 era American Control Conference 2021 preconference tutorial   It was accepted to offer online. It will be on Zoom and then Youtube. Service website: https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/acc2021-CPA...

Congratulations to Guoxiang Zhang for passing his Ph.D. defense!

May 7, 2021
Congratulations to Guoxiang Zhang for passing his Ph.D. defense on 5/6/2021 Thursday! His thesis info is at https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/Guoxiang-PhD  (PDF online free at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1p72d4xt ) His thesis defense public seminar is available to watch upon request...

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