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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

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​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

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Ashkan is co-supervised by Dr. Stavros Vougioukas from BAE.


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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

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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

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Fanyu Meng

B.S. Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2020

Position: PhD Student, Computer Science
Research Area: Explainable reinforcement learning

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Fanyu is co-supervised by Dr. Xin Liu from CS.
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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

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Prabhash is a certified UAS pilot.
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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

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Xuchang is co-supervised by Dr. 
Jochen Ditterich from Neuroscience.

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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.

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MS Students

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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

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Ashwitha is co-supervised by Dr. Jiawei Zhang from CS.
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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

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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


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Undergraduate Student Researchers

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Preet Amin

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: UAS for disaster response

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Qikai Gao

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: UAS-based predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention

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Eric Vanacker

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: UAS-based predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention

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Shuchen Ye


Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: UAS for disaster response

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Bill Zhang

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: UAS-based predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention

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Faress Zwain

Position: Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Adaptive human-robot interaction

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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

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