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
Yimin Qin Ph.D. Building Construction, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Sate University (Virginia Tech), 2023 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016 B.S. Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China, 2015 Position: Postdoctoral Scholar Research Area: Human-autonomy teaming |
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
Baihan Chen M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, 2023 B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Major), Physics (Minor), Pennsylvania State University, PA, 2020 Position: PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Area: AI-powered UAS |
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 |
Brinda Sevak M.S. Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, 2019 B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Mumbai, India, 2015 Position: PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering Research Area: Cognitive neuroengineering Brinda is co-supervised by Dr. Karen Moxon from BME. |
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. |
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 |
Undergraduate Student Researchers
Former Lab Members
- Gregory Bale Year 2015-2023; Position: PhD; First position after graduation:
- Qikai Gao Year 2022-2023; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation:
- Preet Amin Year 2022-2023; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: kW Engineering
- Eric Vanacker Year 2022-2023; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation:
- Ziyan Xie Year 2021-2023; Position: MS; First position after graduation: MicroPort
- Bill Zhang Year 2022-2023; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: MidLabs
- Shuchen Ye Year 2022-2023; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: MS student at UPenn
- Faress Zwain Year 2022-2023; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: MS student at Stanford
- 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: Lockheed Martin
- Aravind Sreejith Year: 2018-2020; Position: MS; First position after graduation: Vicarious
- Frederica Finney-Long Year: 2019-2020; Position: Undergraduate; First position after graduation: MS student at SFSU
- 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