Welcome from the session chair—Prof. Dr. Yangquan Chen [opening talk slides pptx] Invited Speaker Prof. Dr. George Anastassiou Fractional Case of Composition of Activation Functions and the Reduction to Finite Domain Invited Speaker Prof. D…
On Jan. 18, 2026, Dr. Chen was invited to give a seminar for BLS (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) entitled "An Introduction to Fractional Order Thinking and Roughness-Informed Fractional Order Processing of Complex Signals". Title: An Intr…
The MESA Lab was established by Professor YangQuan Chen in 2012. This multi-disciplinary group researches a broad range of topics including: More information on our research in these areas can be found on the Research page, including a list…
On 11/20/2025 Thursday 2-4:30pm, Mr. Osama Fuad Abdel Aal successfully passed his PH.D. proposal defence! The committee members are unanimous with special praise to his originality, mathematical rigor and visual and logical presentation, an…
On 11/17/2025 Monday 9:00-11:30AM, Rafal Krzysiak successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation winning unanimous pass from his committee members. Rafal's thesis title is: "Smart Health Monitoring Using Explainable AI - From Human Physiology…
Di An (107392), Derek Hollenbeck (78354), Si Gao (120746), YangQuan Chen* (12288) A Field Study of Soil Biochar Treatment Response Using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) [local final PDF] Haoyu Niu (86055), Dong Wang (77961), YangQuan C…
It is fun to see the list but I confess: I never tried to squeeze in this HCR list. It's simply a byproduct of our original research efforts over the past years. Thanks to the big data era that tells. Exploring the list, people can quickly
Please join me to congratuate Dr. Brandon Stark, MESA Lab's former Founding Manager and Ph.D. student, for being approved by the Senate CAP (Committee on Academic Personnel) as the afffiliate faculty member of Mechnical Engineering Dept. of…
It is exciting to announce that UC MERCED MESA LAB has obainted FAA CoA! According to this Map of Domestic Drone Authorizations: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=214769660919529725423.0004bde31d74fe6eb1ece we probably are number 1…
"DATA DRONE" term will be spreading. "DATA DRONE VALLEY" will being forming. Watch the news story and the live eNDA-DRONE demo http://www.kmph.com/story/24486432/u-c-merced-students How to address liabilities and insurance coverage of routi…
MESA Lab members, Chun Yin and Brandon Stark, won the Best Paper Award in the "Applications" track of the Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications Conference for their paper entitled, "Minimum Energy Cognitive Lighting Control: St…
Visiting CSC Ph.D. Student, SCUT Caibin Zeng is a CSC visiting Ph.D. student, and his interest includes fractional calculus, fractional Brownian motion, fractional order stochastic systems, modeling crowded dynamics, data analysis. Dr. Aimi…