Principal Investigator:

Wei Ren is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 2004. From 2004 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. He was an Assistant Professor (2005-2010) and an Associate Professor (2010-2011) with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University. His research focuses on distributed control of multi-agent systems and autonomous control of unmanned vehicles. Dr. Ren is an author of three books Distributed Average Tracking in Multi-agent Systems (Springer 2020), Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks (Springer-Verlag, 2011) and Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control (Springer-Verlag, 2008). He was a recipient of the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize in 2017 and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2008. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Current Graduate Students:

Jie Xu (PhD, 09/2020 - Present) is currently a PhD student. He received his BS degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China and MS degree from University of California, Riverside.
 

Yanyu Zhang (PhD, 09/2021 - present) is currently a PhD student. He received his MS degree from Boston University.

Dongming Wang (PhD, 09/2022 - present) is currently a PhD student. He received his MS and BS degrees from Southeast University.

Shivanshu Tripathi (PhD, 09/2022 - present; Co-advised by Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti) is currently a PhD student. He received his MTech degree from IIT Jodhpur and his BTech degree from NIT Srinagar.

Recently Graduated Students:

Pengxiang Zhu (Ph.D, 09/2017 - 06/2022) received his BS and MS degrees from Harbin Engineering University in Harbin, China.

Current coordinates: Apple

Shan Sun (Ph.D, 09/2017 - 06/2021) received her BS and MS degrees from Beihang University in Beijing, China.

Current coordinates: Xpeng Motors

Yong Ding (Ph.D, 09/2017 - 06/2022) received his BS degree from Wuhan University of Technology in Wuhan, China, and his MS degree from Central South University in Changsha, China.

Current coordinates: postdoc at UC Riverside

Yizhi Zhou (MS, 09/2020 - 06/2022) 

Current coordinates: PhD student at George Mason University

Shaoshu Su (MS, 08/2019 - 03/2022) received his BS degree from Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China.

Current coordinates: SUNY Buffalo

Ryan Decker (MS, 06/2019 - 06/2021) received his BS degree from California State University, San Marcos in San Marcos, California.

Jie Xu (MS, 02/2019 - 08/20220) received his BS degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.

Current coordinates: PhD student at UC Riverside

Former Postdocs & Visiting Researchers:

Fei Chen (07/2017–06/2018, Visiting Researcher; 08/2009–08/2010, Postdoc)

Current coordinates: Professor at Northeastern University – Qinghuangdao, China

Linying Xiang (07/2017–06/2018, Visiting Researcher)

Current coordinates: Associate Professor at Northeastern University – Qinghuangdao, China

Jie Mei (05/2013–06/2014, Postdoc)

Current coordinates: Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen

Long Cheng (12/2013–05/2014, Visiting Researcher)

Current coordinates: Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yongcan Cao (09/2010–02/2012, Postdoc)

Current coordinates: Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio

Peng Lin (03/2011–03/2012, Postdoc)

Current coordinates: Professor at Central South University, China

Former Graduate Students:

Peng Wang (PhD, 03/2018)

Current coordinates: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Shaocheng Wang (PhD, 03/2017)

Current coordinates: Hayden AI

Salar Rahili (PhD, 12/2016)

Current coordinates: Head of Deep Learning at Varian Medical Systems

Sheida Ghapani (PhD, 09/2016)

Current coordinates: Ghost Autonomy

Yongcan Cao (PhD, 08/2010)

Current coordinates: Associate Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio

Jie Mei (Visiting PhD student, 12/2011)

Current coordinates: Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen

Ziyang Meng (Visiting PhD student, 08/2010)

Current coordinates: Associate Professor at Tsinghua University

Yifan Zhang (MS, UCR, 06/2019)

Qianjun Liu (MS, UCR, 03/2019)

Hao Wang (MS, UCR, 09/2016)

Jiahui Lu (MS, UCR, 06/2016)

Kush Parikh (MS, UCR, 06/2013)

Current coordinates: Meggitt PLC

Vaibhav Ghadiok (MS Plan-A, 2011)

Current coordinates: Cofounder & EVP - Engineering - Hayden AI

Jeremy Goldin (MS Plan-A, 2011)

Current coordinates: Hanscom Air Force Base

Daniel Stuart (MS Plan-A, 2009)

Current coordinates: PhD student at USU

Erick Tejada (ME, 2009)

Current coordinates: Zomega Terahertz Corporation

Larry Ballard (MS Plan-A, 2008)

Current coordinates: Southwest Research Institute

Taylor Hoenes (ME, 2008) Current coordinates: Raytheon Missile Systems

Tyson Jensen (ME, 2008)

Current coordinates: AeroVironment

Nathan Sorensen (MS Plan-A, 2007)

Current coordinates: United Launch Alliance

Dan Stormont (EE, 2006)

Current coordinates: Hill Air Force Base