PI
Zhaodan Kong
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 2012 Ph.D. (Minor) Cognitive Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 2012 M.S. Astronautics and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China 2006 B.S. Astronautics and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China 2004 Position: Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Cyber-Human-Physical Systems Lab, part of the UC Davis Center for Spaceflight Research, Affiliated with the UC Davis Air Quality Research Center, the UC Davis Center for Neuroengineering & Medicine, and the UC Davis Wild Fire Group Website |
Postdocs
Ashkan Zehfroosh Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, 2022 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran, 2013 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Iran, 2011 Position: Postdoctoral Scholar Research Area: Robotics & AI Ashkan is co-supervised by Dr. Stavros Vougioukas from BAE. |
PhD Students
Gregory Bales B.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, San Jose State University, 2001 Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Cognitive-aware human-autonomy teaming |
Ziquan Deng M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019 M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2018 B.S. Engineering Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2016 Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Explainable anatomy response |
Prabhash Ragbir M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2019 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 2014 Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: UAS swarms for disaster response Prabhash is a certified UAS pilot. |
Xuchang Tang B.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis, 2021 Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Modeling and control for cognitive neuroengineering Xuchang is co-supervised by Dr. Jochen Ditterich from Neuroscience. |
Staff
Jiemin Wu M.S. Computer Science, UC Davis, 2021 B.S. Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China, 2019 Position: Associate Specialist Research Area: Deep learning for neural engineering Jiemin is co-supervised by Dr. Jochen Ditterich from Neuroscience. |
MS Students
Ashwitha Kassetty B.S. Computer Science (with a minor in Math), University of Texas at Arlington, 2021 Position: Master Student, Computer Science Research Area: Deep learning for cognitive state inference Ashwitha is co-supervised by Dr. Jiawei Zhang from CS. |
Thomas Matthews B.A. Physics, UC Berkeley, 2014 Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Modeling and control of system dynamics for industrial automation |
Ziyan Xie B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2021 Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Learning-based inference of cognitive state |
Undergraduate Student Researchers
Preet Amin Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: UAS for disaster response |
Qikai Gao Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: UAS-based predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention |
Eric Vanacker Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: UAS-based predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention |
Shuchen Ye Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: UAS for disaster response |
Bill Zhang Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: UAS-based predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention |
Faress Zwain Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Adaptive human-robot interaction |
Former Students
- Peng Wei Year 2017-2023; Position: PhD; Currently a Postdoc at UC Davis. Here is an article about Peng's work.
- Evan Foley Year 2020-2022; Position: MS; First position after graduation: Lockheed Martin. Here is a news story about Evan's work on using UAVs for vaccine distribution.
- Graham Bough Year 2020-2022; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Lumentum
- Marie Cor Cruz Year 2020-2022; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: US Air Force
- Ayush Patnaik Year 2020-2022; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: PhD student at UC Davis
- Siddhesh Yadav Year 2020-2022; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: PhD student at UC Davis
- Shuhao Yang Year 2021-2022; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: MS student at UCLA
- Srikumar Brundavanam Year 2021; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: MS student at CMU
- Dinesh Kumar Year 2020-2021; Position: Undergraduate; Currently an MS student at UC Davis
- Jailan Sabet Year 2020-2021; Position: MS; First position after graduation: Reltio
- Ryan Liang Year 2019-2021; Position: MS; Currently with Sandia National Laboratories
- Andrew Michelmore Year: 2019-2021; Position: Volunteer; First position after graduation: Advanced Farm Technologies
- Eroz Fabian Year: 2020-2021; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: UC Davis
- Aravind Sreejith Year: 2018-2020; Position: MS; First position after graduation: Vicarious
- Frederica Finney-Long Year: 2019-2020; Position: Undergraduate; Currently at UC Davis
- Felipe Valdez Year: 2018-2020; Position: MS; First position after graduation: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
- Gang Chen Year: 2015-2020; Position: PhD; Currently an Associate Professor at South China University of Technology
- Daniel Genova Year: 2017-2019; Position: MS; First position after graduation: CACI International
- Alexander Batista Year: 2016-2019; Position: MS; First position after graduation: Stryker
- Roberto Hurtado Year: 2017-2019; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Lockheed Martin
- Erina Kitamura Year: 2018-2019; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Intel
- Gabriel Simmons Year: 2017-2019; Position: Undergraduate; Currently a PhD student at UC Davis
- Grant Harman Year: 2017-2019; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: NASA Johnson Space Center
- Daniel Andenmatten Year: 2018-2019; Position: MS; First position after graduation: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
- April Lynn Teske Year: 2016-2018; Position: MS; First position after graduation: Boeing
- Naveen Gowrishankar Year: 2016-2018; Position: MS; First position after graduation: Omron Adept Technologies
- Lucas Ang Year: 2018; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: US Air Force
- Salim Hasin Year: 2015-2018; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Boeing
- Sui Nam (Jason) Chan Years: 2015-2017; Position: MS; Currently with Xwing
- Dahlia Pham Year: 2015-2017; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: NASA Ames Research Center
- Jonathan Summer Year: 2016-2017; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
- Tung Tran Year: 2015-2017; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Boeing
- Albert Yeh Year: 2015-2017; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions
- Eric Po Year: 2016-2017; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Tenex Health
- Anthony Thai Year: 2015-2017; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Apple
- Chenxiong Yi Year: 2016-2017; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Lumi United Technology Co.
- Wilhelmena Figueiredo Years: 2015-2016; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: PhD student at MIT
- Jimmy Tran Year: 2015-2016; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: Genentech