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: 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 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: 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 AI/CPS in Safety Critical Domains
Email: ziqdeng at ucdavis dot edu

Ziquan will officially join our lab in Fall 2020.

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: 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.

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.

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

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

Sean Franklin

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

Sean is a certified UAV pilot.

Former Members

Gang Chen
Year: 2015-2020
Position: PhD
Will join Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as a post doc

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 UC Davis

Aaron Tun
Year: 2018-2019
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently at UC Davis

Jalen Tarpley
Year: 2019
Position: Undergraduate Student Researcher
Currently at UC Davis

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

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

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 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 an MS student 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

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.

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