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

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