SDCNLab News
December 1, 2016 [Members]
Dr. Ryan Orszulik, former PhD student at SDCNLab, completed his 2-year Alexander von. Humboldt Fellowship in Germany. He will move to Harvard University starting in December with a NSERC post-doctoral fellowship. Dr. Orszulik completed his PhD degree at SDCNLab in 2014. Congratulations, Ryan!
December 1, 2016 [Members]
Dr. Yuan Ren started his new job at Huawei Shannon’s Laboratory in Toronto. Yuan joined SDCNLab in 2011and has worked on various projects in the past five years. All the best, Yuan!
October 24, 2016 [Members]
Tragically, Shawn Walker, PhD candidate at SDCNLab, passed away on Saturday October 22 morning. Each of us not only grieves at the passing of a tremendous individual but also for the loss his family suffers. Shawn joined SDCNLab as a RAY student in 2011 and started his MSc in 2013, in 2014 he transferred to PhD program and had been working on artificial intelligence of autonomous unmanned vehicles. He will be missed by SDCNLab!
https://www.arbormemorial.ca/mceachnie/obituaries/shawn-michael-walker/935/Obituary
September 3, 2016 [Project]
On September 3, SDCNLab participated a stratospheric balloon campaign at Esrange Space Center in Kiruna Sweden. A Fabry-Perot spectrometer developed by SDCNLab under a CSA FAST grant was successfully launched on a stratospheric balloon at 34 km to measure aerosol, surface pressure and albedo at O2 A-band. The balloon flight was very successful and all scientific objectives have been achieved. Prof. Jinjun Shan, Dr. Yuan Ren, Dr. Chris Sioris, Mike Voutsogiannakis, Mohammed Kagalwala from SDCNLab and Dr. Ryan Orszulik from University of Magdeburg participated this balloon flight. More information about this flight can be found at:
August 11, 2016 [Members]
Mohammed Kagalwala from SDCNLab attended Lassonde Undergraduate Student Research Conference and made an oral presentation on mechanical design of Fabry-Perot spectrometer. Mohammed won the 3rd place in oral presentation. Congratulations, Mohammed!
August 1-4, 2016 [Conference]
Prof. Jinjun Shan attended 2016 IEEE ICIA in Ningbo, China and presented one paper on synchronization control of piezoelectric actuators. This paper, co-authored with Dr. Zhi Li, was selected in the finalist of the best paper award.
July 22, 2016 [Members]
Prof. Shan has been appointed as the Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (IF: 3.851).
June 27, 2016 [Members]
Prof. Shan has been promoted to Full Professor, effective July 1, 2016.
June 6, 2016 [Members]
Mr. Lei Liu successfully passed his Ph.D. defence on June 6, 2016. His thesis is on Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems.
April 1, 2016 [Members]
Dr. Wenyan Zhou from the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) joined SDCNLab as a Visiting Professor. She was the key orbit designer for the Chinese lunar spacecraft, Chang’e. Dr. Zhou will stay with us for 6 months.
Dr. Zhi Li joined SDCNLab as a Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF) and will be working on dynamics and control of piezoelectric actuators. Dr. Li got his PhD degree from Concordia University.
Mr. Mohammed Kagalwala joined SDCNLab as a Lassonde summer research assistant. He will be working on mechanical and electronics design for our FAST Fabry-Perot spectrometer.
Welcome, Wenyan, Zhi and Mohammed!
February 14-18, 2016 [Conference]
Prof. Jinjun Shan and Dr. Yuan Ren attended 2016 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting in Napa, CA. Dr. Ren presented our paper on reentry trajectory design optimization.
January 4-8, 2016 [Conference]
Prof. Jinjun Shan, Shawn Walker, Lei Liu, and Nicholas Bijnens from SDCNLab attended 2016 AIAA SciTech at San Diego, CA.
