Assistant Professor Wenzhong Yan joins the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research focuses on soft robots that are made of engineered materials and draw inspiration from biology and origami.
by Hope Muñoz, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute, and College of Engineering Communications
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Zhaodan Kong has earned a CITRIS-CDSS Innovation Fellowship to pilot FireFly, an AI-powered sensor and drone system designed to detect wildfires at their earliest stages.
UC Davis engineers Cristina Davis and Zhaodan Kong are building sensors and smart drones to spot the earliest signs of disease in wildlife. Their work with the NSF Center for Pandemic Insights could help catch outbreaks before they spread — and maybe stop them from becoming a global pandemic.
