Solmaz Kia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Graduate Student Researchers
Joan Vendrell (Ph.D. student, starts in fall 2022)
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
Received B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona
Mohammadreza Rostami (Ph.D. student, winter 2022-present)
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
Received B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Robert Palfini (M.Sc. student, winter 2022-present)
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
Received B.Sc. from University of California Santa Barbara
Donipolo Ghimire (Ph.D. student, fall 2020-present)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Received B.Sc. from Howard University
Minwon Seo (Ph.D. student, fall 2020-present)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Received M.Sc. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Tech.
Changwei Chen (Ph.D. student, winter 2020-present)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Received M.Sc. from University of California Irvine
Amir-Salar (Noah) Esteki (Ph.D. student, fall 2019-present)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Received B.Sc. from University of Tehran, Iran
S. A. Razavi Majomard (Ph.D. student, fall 2015-present, joint project w. Prof. Bozorgzadeh on energy efficient decentralized Uncented Kalamn filter for cooperative localization for mobile agents)
Navid Rezazadeh (Ph.D., spring 2022)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Dissertation: Distributed Strategy Selection Over Graphs: Optimality and Privacy
Now a research engineer with Apple
Hossein Moradian (Ph.D., fall 2021)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Dissertation:Optimization Algorithms over Distributed Systems
Now a Deep Learning Engineer with E Ink Corporation
Yi-Fan Chung (Ph.D., summer 2020)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Dissertation: Multi-Agent
Leader-Following and Targets Coverage
Now an Associate Research Fellow
in the National Chung-Shan Institute
of Science & Technology, Taiwan
Jianan Zhu (Ph.D., summer 2020)
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept.
Dissertation: UWB-based Infrastructure-free
Cooperative Localization for First-Responders
Now with pony.ai
M.Sc. students
Boya Sun (M.Sc. student, fall 2019-June 2020)
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept.
Received B.Sc. from Dalian University, China
Ashkan Dehghani Zahedani (M.Sc. student, spring 2018-June 2019)
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept.
Received B.Sc. from University of California Riverside
Geoffrey Richards (M.Sc. student, fall 2016-June 2018)
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept.
Now with Boeing
Xiuji Zhu (M.Sc. student, fall 2017-June 2018)
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept.
Now a Project Engineer at BOCS Corp
Pan Wang (Jan. 2016-Mar. 2017)
Mechanical and Aerospace Dept.
M.Sc. project: Passive eavesdropper design for acontinuous-time distributed optimization algorithm over networked systems
Xiaogang Ni (2015-Mar. 2017)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
M.Sc. project: Target localization via passive RFID systems
Tianxi He (2015-Mar. 2017)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
M.Sc. project: Dynamic consensus for a network of mobile robots withsecond order integrator dynamics
Vu Hoang Dinh (2014-2015)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
M.Sc. project: decentralized cooperative localization for mobile robots
Formerly with NAVSEA, now with Raytheon
Marc-Arnold Haupt Giro, Graduate Balsells Fellow (2014- september 2015)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
M.Sc. project: Target localization in a priori inaccessible environments using RFID mobile sensors
Michael Kiiru (2014-Sept. 2015)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
MS project student
Now with Kitty Hawk
Undergraduate students
Alex (Dongheng) Jing
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept. (Apr. 2016-June 2018)
UCI 2016 SURF fellow
Project (Funded by UCI UROP): Localization system via single kinematic RFID reader
Hongyu Wang
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept. (Feb. 2018-June 2019)
Brandon Metcalf
Department of Electrical Engineering (Summer 2017)
UCI SURF-IoT fellow
Alex (Yiming) Liu
Computer Science Dept. (Apr. 2016-June 2017)
Antonio Estrada-Zaragoza
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Nov. 2015-June 2016)
Kourosh Hedayatie
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerng Dept. (Jan. 2015-June 2016)
Michael M. Ishimoto
Department of Computer Science and Engineering(Jan. 2015-Jun. 2016)
Minhoh Han
Mathematics Department, UCI (Aug. 2014-March 2015)
Undergraduate researcher: RFID reader API integration in ROS, robotic lab
Now: graduate student in Pepperdine University
Ji Yeon Kim
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Apr. 2015-Jun. 2016)
Now: graduate student at University of Notre Dame
Kyle Bendickson
Department of Computer Science (Jun. 2015- Dec. 2015)
Now: Big Data Engineer @ Tinder
Kehmena J. Ockiya
Department of Computer Science, UCI (Jan. 2015-June 2015)
Undergraduate researcher: ROS platform setup, robotic lab