UC Davis Collaborators
Assistant Professor Jin, Yufang
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
Research
Improving the ecological monitoring capabilities to provide data-driven information for sustainable agriculture and natural resource management by primarily uses satellite and aerial remote sensing observations to study the climate-water-ecosystem nexus.
Professor Stephen K. Robinson
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research
UAV aerodynamic, configuration, and control system design for human health and safety applications, including atmospheric sensing, operator training and human interface, and system failure recognition/recovery.
Assistant Professor Christian Nansen
Department of Entomology and Nematology
Research
Insect Pest Management; research is focused around four basic themes: 1) better understanding of host selection by insect herbivores, 2) reflectance-based detection of herbivore-induced stress in crops, 3) pesticide performance, and 4) use of imaging technology in a wide range of research applications.
Cooperative Extension Specialist Daniele Zaccaria
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
Research
Agricultural water management, irrigation, agriculture, fruit and nut trees, environment and natural resources, working with airborne platforms on my pistachio and citrus projects.
Assistant Professor Xiaoguang "Leo" Liu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research
Reconfigurable high frequency devices, components, particularly tunable filters, matching networks; High efficiency and high power amplifiers, oscillators, frequency synthesizers; Millimeter-wave synthetic imaging systems; High frequency communication; radar systems application in biomedical, societal, and environmental applications.
Assistant Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist Samuel Sandoval Solis
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
Research
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM); develop new techniques, design policies to improve water management; analyze current regulations, infrastructure, environment of basins, recommend actions improving water supply of present, future societal water demands while maintaining the range of hydrologic variation necessary to preserve the ecological and environmental integrity of the basin.
Professor Geoff Schladow
Research
Physical Limnology, Sensor Networks, Fluid Mechanics and Water Quality.
Professor and Chair Nina Amenta
Research
Computer algorithms for capturing, processing and interpreting three-dimensional data, including surface reconstruction and machine learning from three-dimensionsional point distributions.
Assistant Professor Zhaodan Kong
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research
Bio-inspired engineering, control and dynamical systems, human-machine systems, robotics, cyber-physical systems, networked systems, complex data analysis, and machine learning.
Professor Pasternack, Gregory B.
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
Research
Use of UAVs for studying Earth’s landforms and physical habitats as well as how they change through time.
Professor Cristina Davis
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research
Chemical and biological sensing applications, use of technology to speed biomarker discovery, novel bioMEMS devices, and bioinformatics interpretation of sensor output.
Professor Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research
Finite element methods, aerospace structures, aeroelasticity, biomechanics, and vibro-acoustics.
Professor Ken Giles
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Research
Spray applications, including pesticide spraying and industrial spray coatings. Reduction of spray drift and environmental contamination.
Professor and Chair Case van Dam
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research
Aerodynamics including design and optimization; aircraft design; experimental and computational fluid dynamics; wind energy; aerodynamics of wind turbines; aerodynamic load control for aircraft and wind turbine rotors.
Professor Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Research
Precision agriculture or SSCM, Sensor development, Instrumentation, Machinery design, Variability and mapping, GIS, Mathematical Modeling of biological and physical processes, Soil dynamics, Tillage, Traction, Soil compaction, and Infiltration and irrigation management.
Professor Chris van Kessel
Department of Plant Sciences
Research
Agronomy, soil fertility, nutrient cycling, cropping systems, international agriculture.
Professor Jay Lund
Research
Systems analysis in water resources and environment planning and management.
Assistant Professor Brett Milligan
Department of Human Ecology
Research
Landscape architecture, urbanism, environmental restoration, regional environmental planning, regenerative infrastructure, industrial ecology, dredge landscapes, landscape modeling and mapping, citizen science, theory of landscape change.
Program Advisor Robert Stewart
Department of Plant Sciences
Research
Seed Programs
Professor and Chair Michael Parella
Department of Entomology
Research
Fundamental and applied studies, with the intent of using the knowledge gained to develop IPM/biological control strategies for the environmental horticulture industry. This includes floriculture, nursery and bedding plant operations and landscape plants in the urban environment.
Assistant Professor Dr.-Ing. Barbara S. Linke
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research
Manufacturing technologies, sustainable and energy-efficient manufacturing processes, grinding and other abrasive machining technologies, home-scale 3D printing, surface engineering for aesthetic metal parts, structural components, food processing equipment, automotive and aerospace parts, biomedical components, and more.
Professor David Horsley
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research
Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS), design and manufacturing of microfabricated sensors and actuators, mechatronics and control systems.
Professor Jean VanderGheynst
Department Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Research
Transformation, decomposition and conversion of plant biomass to products. Plants include dedicated crops and algae, food processing residues and urban and agricultural wastes.
Associate Professor Valeria La Saponara
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research
Impact of hygro-thermo-mechanical-chemical stimuli on the durability of composites for aerospace, naval, and civil applications; crashworthiness improvements; nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring; destructive testing (under impact, static, fatigue and compression loading); galvanic corrosion study of GFRP and CFRP coupled with metals.
Professor Edwin Lewis
Research
To understand why and how organisms find, recognize, assess and exploit resources. Questions about how insects and nematodes make decisions about resource utilization and what the fitness outcomes of the decisions are.
Professor Randy Dahlgren
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
Research
Interactions of hydrological, geochemical, and biological processes in regulating surface and ground water chemistry.
Corporate Extension Specialist Bruce Linquist
Department of Plant Sciences
Research
Developing sustainable, efficient nutrient management for rice, maintain, increase yields; reduce water use; water quality; greenhouse gas emissions mitigation; assessment of heavy metals in rice; crop development.
Area Agronomy Advisor Mark Lundy
Department of
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