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MESA LAB welcomes undergraduate researchers for summer 2020

June 2, 2020
MESA LAB welcomes undergraduate researchers for summer 2020! MESA Lab has a long history of engaging and involving undergraduate students in various research projects. Over 200 students gained research experience and expertise from MESA LAB affiliation and were bette prepared for job markets or...

Congratulations to Haoyu Niu for LLNL Data Science Challenge awarded opportunity

May 20, 2020
Congratulations to Haoyu Niu for winning LLNL Data Science Challenge awarded opportunity. More details at https://data-science.llnl.gov/merced

Prof. Chen won Academic Senate Distinguished Research Award

May 14, 2020
Dr. Chen was nominated and won Academic Senate Distinguished Research award for 2019-2020 https://senate.ucmerced.edu/senate_awards Distinction in Research (for Tenured Faculty) In recognition of research and/or other creative activities that have had a major impact on the field, either...

Congratulations to Derek Hollenbeck for the NSF NRT award 2020-2021

April 11, 2020
Congratulations to Derek Hollenbeck for the NSF NRT award 2020-2021 It is a great news to MESA Lab that our senior Ph.D. candidate and MESA Lab Co-Manager, Derek Hollenbeck has been awarded (again) the NSF IAS NRT award for a full year from Fall 2020 to Summer 2021. He will continue to develop...

Dr. Chen will attend two conferences in Spring 2020

March 3, 2020
1. AAHHE PI Meeting. The fifteenth annual national conference of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) will be held in Costa Mesa, California on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 5-7, 2020, at the Hilton Orange County Hotel, Costa Mesa, California. (Our project site...

2020 IFAC World Congress Accepted Papers - Congratulations!

February 27, 2020
2020 IFAC World Congress Accepted Papers - Congratulations! MESA Lab has 11 papers accepted by IFAC World Congress 2020 in Berlin, Germany. This conference takes place every three years. 2017 was in Toulouse, France, 2014 was in Capetwon South Africa, 2011 was in Milan, Italy, 2008 in Seoul,...

New $2.5M NSF grant to help solving the salinity issue

January 31, 2020
Please see this link for the project award news item: https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2020/researchers-aim-cure-valley%E2%80%99s-salty-soil-25m-grant-nsf There is also and ABC30 news video clip here: https://abc30.com/education/uc-merced-researchers-working-on-innovative-way-to-desalinate-ag-...

MESA LAB welcomes new members in Spring 2020

January 31, 2020
It is a great pleasure to welcome the following new MESA LAB members in Spring 2020: Mr. Kai Cao, Ph.D. student, Xi'an Technological University, China (12 months) Prof. Dr. Haiyong Qin, Shandong University, China (12 months) Mr. Carlos Rodrigez, Ph.D. student, Mexico, CICESE (12...

Prof. Chen was invited to serve the ASME DSMC editorial board, again

January 31, 2020
Prof. Chen was invted by the EIC Prof. Ranjan Mukherjee to serve the ASME DSMC editorial board, again. He served DSMC journal for two terms from 2009-2015. This time, the Associate Editor (AE) position for the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control is for the three year period:...

Highly Cited Researchers 2019 announced (Clarivate Analytics)

November 24, 2019
It is a great news that Dr. Chen was selected to the Highly Cited Researcher 2019 list just announced by Clarivate Analytics https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2019/ As of 2019/11/23, Dr. Chen has published 16 ESI highly cited papers. List is here: web_of_science-...

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