Dr. Voulgaris

Before joining UNR in 2020 and since 1991, Professor Petros G. Voulgaris has been a faculty with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holding also appointments with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the general area of robust and optimal control and coordination of autonomous systems. Dr. Voulgaris is a recipient of several awards including the NSF Research Initiation Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award and the UIUC Xerox Award for research. He has also been a Visiting ADGAS Chair Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE and a Visiting Gaungbiao Chair at Zhejiang University, China. His research has been supported by several agencies including NSF, ONR, AFOSR, NASA. He is also a Fellow of IEEE.

Jessica Peterson

Ms. Jessica Peterson is a part-time Instructor Flight Test Engineer for the USAF Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) and a current PhD student and Research Assistant for the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University Nevada Reno. She has over 18 years of flight test experience on fighter, bomber, and autonomous vehicles. As a graduate and instructor of USAF TPS, she has directed hundreds of control room missions, instructed 150+ flight test and space test professionals at USAF TPS, and flown in over 40 different aircraft types with over 500 military flight hours in primarily the T-38, F-16, and C-12 aircraft.

Caleb Patton

Caleb is a second year PhD student at the University of Nevada, Reno, advised by Dr. Petros Voulgaris. Caleb earned his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois where he developed interests in Robotics and Deep Learning in addition to learning electronics and software skills. Caleb’s broad range of interests inspired him to join the Learning Autonomy and Controls Systems Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UNR during the Spring of 2023, where he immediately developed a strong interest in Guidance, Navigation and Control for Autonomous Vehicles. During the Summer of 2024, Caleb interned for Sandia National Laboratories at the AutonomyNM institute, where he developed algorithms for advanced flight and space systems.

Duo Wang

Vivek Khatana

Vivek Khatana earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research spans diverse areas, including distributed optimization, stochastic control, networks of dynamical systems, data-driven system identification, and power systems control. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. His academic achievements include receiving the prestigious Summer Undergraduate Research Award at IIT Roorkee and being honored as an outstanding Teaching Assistant by the University of Minnesota's Department of Electrical Engineering. Beyond his research, Vivek is an active member of professional organizations including the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Power and Energy Society, reflecting his dedication to advancing the field of electrical engineering. Outside of his professional pursuits, Vivek enjoys playing badminton and soccer, hiking, reading non-fiction literature, and experimenting with culinary creations.

Dr. Hyung-Jin Yoon

Assistant Professor at Tennessee Technological University

Antonio Fernandez Castano

Associate Manufacturing Equipment Engineer at Tesla

Yichuan Li

Senior Research Engineer at Alibaba Group