YangQuan Chen received his B.S. in industrial automation from the University of Science and Technology of Beijing, China, in 1985; his M.S. in automatic control from the Beijing Institute of Technology in 1989; and his Ph.D. degree in advanced control and instrumentation from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 1998. He was a member of the control systems/mechatronics faculty of the ECE department at Utah State University and the director of the Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems (CSOIS), before joining UC Merced in fall 2012.
Relevant Expertise:
- Digital twin behavior matching for autonomous operations: Developing frameworks for autonomous UTM operations with behavior identification and uncertainty quantification for autonomous air mobility systems
- Explainable AI for autonomous wildfire response: Creating AI-driven autonomous systems for wildfire detection, tracking, and resource allocation using satellite and drone data integration
