Javier Puig-Navarro was recently recognized as the recipient of the Aerospace Engineering Alumni Advisory Board Fellowship.

Hyung-Jin Yoon was recently recognized as an outstanding reviewer for the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. He has served as a reviewer for the journal for about three years, and also reviews for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and the Journal of the Franklin […]

Click here to read the news post from MechSE. Despite the cold weather of the week, the group of co-PIs of NSF NRI award #1830639 SYNDROME convened on UIUC campus on 02/01 for the kickoff meeting as planned. Co-PI Pavone from Stanford could not join the meeting in-person because of unfavorable weather conditions and joined […]

Naira Hovakimyan, a professor of mechanical science and engineering and a member of the Cognition, Lifespan Engagement, Aging, and Resilience Group, discusses how drones, planes, satellites, and artificial intelligence will help farmers meet the food needs of a growing world population. Read more from MechSE.

MechSE professor Naira Hovakimyan gave the GNC Plenary Lecture at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ 2019 Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Conference in San Diego, CA. Read more from MechSE News UIUC Lecture “Aerial Co-Robots of the Future” video:  

Professor Hovakimyan gave a plenary lecture “Aerial Co-robots of the Future” on AIAA GNC conference 2019. The abstract was recommended as the top talk for the plenary.  Congratulations on this significant accomplishment!

We have several students in our group presenting at  AIAA SciTech Forum 2019. Check our gallery for pictures.

Congratulations to Hamid! He defended his thesis “Robust adaptive sampled-data control design for MIMO systems: applications in cyber-physical security” successfully! He will join Professor Lui Sha’s group at UIUC as a post-doc researcher.

Hamid was selected as one of the five students who will receive the Fall 2018 Graduate College Travel Award and the MechSE Department “Schaller Travel Fund” to attend a conference. He will present the paper “Multirate Adaptive Control for MIMO Systems with Application to Cyber-Physical Security” at the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control […]

Congratulations to Professor Hovakimyan for receiving Pendray Aerospace Literature Award. Click the following links to read more: Pendray Aerospace Literature Award Recipients, from AIAA. Hovakimyan earns prestigious AIAA honor for pioneering book, from MechSE.