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 Email: zdkong at ucdavis dot edu Website: https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/kong/ |
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 Email: glbales at ucdavis dot edu |
Ziquan Deng MS Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Lious, 2019 Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Explainable Anatomy Response and Decision Making Email: ziqdeng at ucdavis dot edu |
Norma Gowans BS Mechanical Engineering & Mathematics, University of Portland, 2019 Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Modeling and Control of Neural Cognitive Systems Email: nagowans at ucdavis dot edu |
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. |
Fanyu Meng B.S. Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2020 Position: PhD Student, Computer Science Research Area: Explainable Reinforcement Learning Email: fymeng at ucdavis dot edu Fanyu is co-supervised by Dr. Xin Liu from the Department of Computer Science. |
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: UAS and UAS Swarms in the Field Email: penwei at ucdavis dot edu Peng is a certified UAS pilot. Here is an article about Peng. |
MS Students
Pratibha Agarwal B.S. in Information Science Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, 2019 Position: Master Student, Computer Science Research Area: AI for Human-Autonomy Teaming Email: pragarwal at ucdavis dot edu |
Evan Foley B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, San Jose State University, 2020 Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: UAS Swarms Email: epfoley at ucdavis dot edu |
Greesan Gurumurthy B.S. in Computer Engineering, San Francisco State University, 2020 Position: Master Student, Computer Science Research Area: AI for Aerial Robotics Email: greesan.gurumurthy at gmail dot com |
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 Ryan is one of the 2020 X-Force Fellows. |
Thomas Matthews B.A. in Physics, UC Berkeley, 2014 Position: Master Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: Modeling and control of system dynamics for industrial automation. Email: tmatthews at ucdavis dot edu |
Blake McMurray B.S. in Biology with spec. in Bioinformatics, UC San Diego, 2018 Position: Master Student, Computer Science Research Area: AI for Neural Engineering Email: blake.mcmurray at gmail dot com |
Andrew Michelmore B.S. in Electrical Engineering Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2018 M.S. in Electrical Engineering Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2019 Position: Volunteer Research Area: AI Pilot Email: am343434 at gmail dot com |
Jailan Sabet B.A. in Criminology, St. Edward's University, 2016; B.S. in Computer Science, Cañada College, 2019 Position: Master Student, Computer Science Research Area: AI for Human-Autonomy Teaming Email: jksabet at ucdavis dot edu |
Jiemin Wu B.S. in Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China, 2019 Position: Master Student, Computer Science Research Area: AI for Neural Engineering Email: jmwu at ucdavis dot edu |
Undergraduate Student Researchers
Preet Amin Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Email: pnamin at ucdavis dot edu Research Area: Long-duration UAS for First Responders |
Graham Bough Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Email: gwbough at ucdavis dot edu Research Area: UAS for Precision Agriculture Website: https://github.com/Grahamboughw |
Marie Cor Cruz Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Email: mgcruz at ucdavis dot edu Research Area: ONR NEPTUNE 2.0 Marie is an Air Force Reservist & ROTC student. |
Eroz Fabian Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Email: esfabian at ucdavis dot edu Research Area: Long-duration UAS for First Responders |
Dinesh Kumar Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Email: dskumar at ucdavis dot edu Research Area: Long-duration UAS for First Responders |
Ayush Patnaik Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Email: ayupat at ucdavis dot edu Research Area: UAS for Precision Agriculture |
Former Students
- Aravind Sreejith Year: 2018-2020; Position: MS Student; Currently at UBtech Robotics
- Frederica Finney-Long Year: 2019-2020; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently at UC Davis
- Felipe Valdez Year: 2018-2020; Position: Master Student; Currently with NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
- Jonathan Dorsey Year: 2018-2020; Position: Master Student; Currently a PhD student at UC Davis
- Gang Chen Year: 2015-2020; Position: PhD; Currently a postdoc at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
- Russell Evangelista Year: 2018-2020; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently at UC Davis
- Sean Franklin Year: 2019-2020; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently at UC Davis
- Daniel Genova Year: 2017-2019; Position: Master Student; Currently with CACI International as a NASA contractor
- Alexander Batista Year: 2016-2019; Position: Master Student
- Shazib Elahi Year: 2019-2019; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently at Maury Microwave
- Aaron Tun Year: 2018-2019; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently at UC Davis
- Roberto Hurtado Year: 2017-2019; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently with Lockheed Martin
- Erina Kitamura Year: 2018-2019; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently with Intel
- Gabriel Simmons Year: 2017-2019; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently a PhD student at UC Davis
- Ben Moxon Year: 2018-2019; Position: High School Student Intern
- Grant Harman Year: 2017-2019; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently with NASA Johnson Space Center
- Daniel Andenmatten Year: 2018-2019; Position: Master Student; Currently with Pacific Gas and Electric Company
- April Lynn Teske Year: 2016-2018; Position: Master Student; Currently with Boeing
- Naveen Gowrishankar Year: 2016-2018; Position: Master Student; Currently with Omron Adept Technologies
- Lucas Ang Year: 2018; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently with 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 an MS student 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
- 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.
- Guilherme Piovezan Otto Years: Summer 2016; Position: International Student; Currently with GmbH
- Wilhelmena Figueiredo Years: 2015-2016; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently a PhD student at MIT
- Jimmy Tran Year: 2015-2016; Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher; Currently with Genentech