- July 29 - August 2, 2024   Two articles were presented at the AIAA AVIATION Forum and ASCEND in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- July 15, 2024   Congratulations to Dr. Wang's group for receiving and leading a four-year Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) Track 1 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- July 10, 2024   Congratulations to Mr. Sabrullah Deniz for passing his PhD dissertation proposal. Good job Sabrullah!
- July 10, 2024   Mr. Yufei Wu passed his PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations Dr. Wu!
- July 2, 2024   Congratulations to Dr. Wang for being promoted to a tenured Associate Professor.
- May 4, 2024   Congratulations to Ms. Katherine Vasiloff for receiving a NASA Achievement Award at imaginAviation 2024 presented by the NASA Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP).
- April 11, 2024   Congratulations to Dr. Wang for receiving the Tickle College of Engineering Professional Promise in Research Award.
- January 8-12, 2024   Two articles were presented at the AIAA SciTech Forum in Orlando, Florida.
- August 29, 2023   Congratulations to Dr. Wang's group for receiving a three-year REU Site grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- June 12-16, 2023   Two articles were presented at the AIAA Aviation Forum in San Diego, California.
- May 30, 2023   Congratulations to Dr. Wang's group for receiving and leading a five-year grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
- May 4, 2023   Congratulations to Dr. Wang for receiving the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
- April 25, 2023   Congratulations to Dr. Wang for receiving the Louis and Ann Hoffman Endowed Excellence in Research Award.
- April 14, 2023   Mr. Yang Shi passed his PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations Dr. Shi!
- March 2023   Congratulations to Dr. Wang's group for being part of a three-year NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI) project.
- March 7, 2023   Congratulations to Dr. Wang's group for receiving and leading a one-year Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) Planning Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- February 15, 2023   Congratulations to Dr. Wang for being promoted to a Senior Member of AIAA.
- January 23-27, 2023   Two articles were presented at the AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum in National Harbor, MD.
- December 6, 2022   Congratulations to Mr. Yufei Wu for passing his PhD dissertation proposal. Good job Yufei!
- September 14, 2022   Congratulations to Dr. Wang's group for being part of an Army STTR project.
- August 21, 2022   Congratulations to Dr. Wang for being appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
- June 27 - July 1, 2022   Dr. Wang, Mr. Sabrullah Deniz, and Mr. Yufei Wu attended the AIAA Aviation 2022 Forum in Chicago, IL. Two articles were presented.
- June 8-10, 2022   Dr. Wang and Mr. Yang Shi attended the 2022 American Control Conference in Atlanta, GA. One article was presented.
- April 22, 2022   Dr. Wang gave a virtual talk about Convex Optimization and Machine Learning for Aerospace Guidance and Control to the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University.
- April 12, 2022   Congratulations to Mr. Chapel Rice for passing his Master's thesis defense. Good job Chapel! Congratulations!
- January 3-7, 2022   Mr. Yufei Wu, Mr. Sabrullah Deniz, and Mr. Brian Coulter attended the hybrid AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum. Four articles were presented.
- January 5, 2022   Congratulations to Mr. Yang Shi for receiving the prestigious Thomas E. Shannon and Mrs. Patricia Shannon Endowed Graduate Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year.
- December 10, 2021   Congratulations to Mr. Sabrullah Deniz for passing the qualifying examination. Good job Sabrullah!
- December 3, 2021   Congratulations to Mr. Yang Shi for passing his dissertation proposal. Good job Yang!
- November 30, 2021   Congratulations to Mr. Chapel Rice for passing his Master's thesis proposal. Good job Chapel!
- October 11, 2021   Dr. Wang gave a talk about Autonomous Systems Enabled by Control, Optimization, and Machine Learning in the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
- May, 2021   Mr. Brian Coulter will begin his graduate studies at Purdue University in Fall 2021. Congratulations Brian!
- March, 2021   We are pleased that Mr. Boris Benedikter has joined our lab as a Visiting Scholar. Boris is pursuing his PhD degree at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
- January, 2021   We are pleased that Mr. Sabrullah Deniz has joined our lab as a PhD student. Sabrullah received his Master's degree from the University of Alabama.
- January, 2021   Yufei Wu and Brian Coulter will attend the virtual AIAA SciTech 2021 Forum 11–15 & 19–21 January, 2021. Four articles will be presented.
- August, 2020   We are excited to have Mr. Grayson Hawkins, Mr. Trey Copeland, and Mr. Chapel Rice join our group as MS students.
- August 28, 2020   All our manuscripts submitted to the AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum have been accepted. The forum will be fully virtual 11–15 & 19–21 January, 2021.
- June 1, 2020   We are excited to have Mr. Yufei Wu join our lab as a PhD student. Yufei received his Master's degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
- May, 2020   Mr. Spencer McDonald has been admitted by several top schools and will begin his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Fall 2020. Congratulations Spencer!
- March 31, 2020   Mr. Spencer McDonald received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. Congratulations Spencer!
- March 6, 2020   Dr. Wang gave a talk about Control, Optimization, and Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Systems at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
- January 6-10, 2020   Mr. Spencer McDonald and Mr. Yang Shi attended the 2020 AIAA SciTech Forum in Orlando, Florida. We have three papers presented at the conference. Good job Spencer and Yang!
- August 30, 2019   All our manuscripts submitted to the AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum have been accepted. Excellent work Camille, Gillian, Spencer, Timothy, and Yang! See you in Orlando, Florida in January 2020!
- August 15, 2019   Mr. Yang Shi attended the NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI) poster session on August 15. We have a poster entitled "A Deep Learning-Based Approach to Real-Time Trajectory Optimization for Hypersonic Vehicles" presented at the session. Good job Yang!
- July 10, 2019   Congratulations to Mr. Spencer McDonald for receiving the AIAA Foundation Ellis F. Hitt Digital Avionics Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year.
- June 17-21, 2019   Mr. Spencer McDonald attended the 2019 AIAA Aviation Forum in Dallas, Texas. We have two papers presented at the conference. Good job Spencer!
- June 1, 2019   We are pleased that Mr. Yang Shi has joined our lab as a PhD student. Yang received his Master's degree from the University of South Carolina.