Kia Cooperative Systems Lab (KCS-lab)

Solmaz Kia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.

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

Kenzo Spaulding
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept./Computer Science (Jan. 2019-present)
UCI 2019 SURF-IoT fellow

Wenzhu Wang
Electrical and Computer Science Eng. Dept. (June. 2019-present)
UCI 2019 SURF-IoT fellow
Project (Funded by UCI UROP): UAV Swarm

Xiangbei Liu
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept. (fall 2019-present)
Project: Leader-following with time triggered communication

Dawen Ren
Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Dept. (Fall 2019-present)
Project (Funded by UCI UROP): Localization via UWB beacons

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

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