Current Members

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: Assistant 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 Neuroengineering & Medicine Working Group, and the UC Davis Fire Group
Email: zdkong at ucdavis dot edu
Website: https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/kong/

Gregory Bales

B.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, San Jose State University, 2001

Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Human-Swarm Collaborations
Email: glbales at ucdavis dot edu

Gang (Robin) Chen

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, 2015
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, 2012

Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Formal Methods and Machine Learning
Email: ggchen at ucdavis dot edu
Website: http://aigangchen.jimdo.com/

Na Ma

M.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2017
B.S. Aerospace Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2014

Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: UAS for Precision Agriculture and Disaster Mitigation
Email: nama at ucdavis dot edu

Na is co-supervised by Dr. Christian Nansen from the Department of Entomology and Nematology. She is a certified UAS pilot.

Peng Wei

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2016
B.S. Thermal and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China, 2015

Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: UAV Swarms in the Field
Email: penwei at ucdavis dot edu

Peng is a certified UAS pilot.

Here is an article about Peng.

Alexander Batista

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego, 2016

Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Human-Robot Collaboration
Email: atbatista at ucdavis dot edu

Jonathan Dorsey

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, San Jose State University, 2018

Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: AI and Computer Vision for Smart Agriculture
Email: jtdorsey at ucdavis dot edu

Jonathan is co-supervised by Dr. Mohsen Mesgaran from Department of the Plant Sciences.

Daniel D Genova

B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis, 2016

Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Optimization-Based UAS Control
Email: ddgenova at ucdavis dot edu

Dan is a certified UAS pilot.

Ryan Liang

B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis, 2019

Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: AI Pilot
Email: jwrliang at ucdavis dot edu

Andrew Michelmore

BS in Electrical Engineering Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2018
MS in Electrical Engineering Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2019

Position: Volunteer
Research Area: AI Pilot
Email: am343434 at gmail dot com

Aravind Sreejith

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India, 2018

Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: UAS and Machine Learning for Air Quality Monitoring
Email: asreejith at ucdavis dot edu

Aravind is co-supervised by Dr. Ajith Kaduwela from the Air Quality Research Center.

Felipe Valdez

BS in Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Sacramento, 2016

Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Reinforcement Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Flight Control (a joint NASA-UCD project)
Email: fdvaldez at ucdavis dot edu

Here is an article about Felipe.

Zhe Zhou

MS in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkerley, 2019

Position: Visting Student
Research Area: System ID and Control for Cognitive Neural Engineering
Email: zhe.zhou at berkeley dot edu

Shazib Elahi

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: selahi at ucdavis dot edu
Research Area: UAS for Weed Control

Russell Evangelista

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: rlevangelista at ucdavis dot edu
Research Area: Augmented Reality for Astronauts and UAV Pilots

Frederica Finney-Long

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: ffinneylong at ucdavis dot edu
Research Area: Augmented Reality for Astronauts and UAV Pilots

Jalen Tarpley

Position: Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Engineering
Email: jttarpley at ucdavis dot edu
Research Area: UAS and UAS swarms for Military

Jalen is a military dependent.

Aaron Tun

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: astun at ucdavis dot edu
Research Area: UAS for Weed Control

Former Members

Gan Gao
Year: Summer 2019
Position: Visiting Student
Currently at Zhejiang University, China

Yuchen Hu
Year: Summer 2019
Position: Visiting Student
Currently at University of Science and Technology of China, China

Roberto Hurtado
Year: 2017-2019
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently at UC Davis

Erina Kitamura
Year: 2018-2019
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Intel

Gabriel Simmons
Year: 2017-2019
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher

Ben Moxon
Year: 2018-2019
Position: High School Student Intern

Grant Harman
Year: 2017-2019
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher

Daniel Andenmatten
Year: 2018-2019
Position: Master II Student
Currently a program manager of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company

April Lynn Teske
Year: 2016-2018
Position: Master Student

Naveen Gowrishankar
Year: 2016-2018
Position: Master Student
Currently with the Omron Adept Technologies

Lucas Ang
Year: 2018
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with the US Air Force

Simon Wu
Year: 2017-2018
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently at Illinois Institute of Technology

Salim Hasin
Year: 2015-2018
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Boeing

Jiahe Chai
Year: 2017-2018
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently at UC Davis

Sui Nam (Jason) Chan
Years: 2015-2017
Position: Master Student
Currently with Aurora Flight Science, a Boeing Company

Dahlia Pham
Year: 2015-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Ampaire

Jonathan Summer
Year: 2016-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher

Zack Fitterer
Year: 2016-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher

Hong Truong
Year: 2015-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher

Ruqiao An
Years: 2016-2017
Position: Visiting Scholar
Currently at Zhejiang University, China

Tung Tran
Year: 2015-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Boeing

Albert Yeh
Year: 2015-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions

Eric Po
Year: 2016-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Tenex Health

Anthony Thai
Year: 2015-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Apple

Chenxiong Yi
Year: 2016-2017
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Lumi United Technology Co.

Ariana Jagodzinski
Years: 2015-2016
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher

Eric Chavez
Years: 2015-2016
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher

Guilherme Piovezan Otto
Years: Summer 2016
Position: International Student
Currently with GmbH

Wilhelmena Figueiredo
Years: 2015-2016
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently at MIT

Jimmy Tran
Year: 2015-2016
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently with Genentech