Faculty
Director
Larry and Nancy McVay Endowed Professor in Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Affiliate, National Wind Institute
PhD Students
Kevin Norman (08/2020 – )
ME, RA
Research Interests: Power Electronics Control for Solar Energy Systems
Shafquat Yasar Aurko (08/2023 – )
ME, RA
Research Interests: Control of Inverter-Based Resources
Salim Sadman Bishal (01/2024 – )
ME, RA
Research Interests: Swarm control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Master Students
Undergraduate Students
Eric Taylor (01/2023 – )
ME, Individual Study Project
Research Interests: Autonomous Crack Detection Systems for Wind Turbine Blades
Drake D. Kimball (01/2024 – )
ME, Individual Study Project
Research Interests: Solar Energy Systems and Off-Grid Communications Engineering
Emilio Rios Serna (01/2024 – )
IE
Research Interests: Renewable Energy Systems & Optimization
Alumni
| PhD Students | ||
Yafeng Wang |
Dissertation: Quadrotor Motion Control for Wind Turbine Inspection Current Position:Engineer at NVIDIA |
2023.08 |
Yiting Dong |
Dissertation: Advanced Control of Microgrids with Renewables Current Position: Lead Firmware Controls Engineer at Eaton |
2022.08 |
Sanka Liyanage (Co-advised) |
Dissertation: Bounded Integral Control of Non-holonomic Mobile Robots Under Input Constraints Current Position: Principal Research Control Engineer at Group NIRE |
2020.08 |
Yeqin Wang
|
Dissertation: Control of Power Electronic Converters for Microgrids (Graduate School's 2nd Place Outstanding Dissertation Award) Current Position: Assistant Professor at Tongji University, China |
2019.08 |
Jiguo Dai
|
Dissertation: Robust Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Current Position: Senior Servo Engineer at Seagate Technology |
2019.08 |
Qi Lu (Co-advised) |
Dissertation: Robust Control for a Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Complex Environments Current Position: Assistant Professor at Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute, China |
2019.05 |
| Master Students | ||
Ashutosh Ghuli
|
Thesis: Parallel Operation of Portable Solar-Battery Systems |
2021.08 |
Chaeeum Kim |
Thesis: Design and Control of a Scaled Wind Turbine Current Position: R&D Engineer at REMINC |
2019.12 |
| Undergraduate Students | ||
Helene Deng3 |
ECE, Texas Tech University | 2023.08 – 2024.01 |
Andrea Estrella1,2 |
ME, Texas Tech University | 2022.09 – 2023.05 |
Linda Man1,2 |
ECE, Texas Tech University | 2022.09 – 2023.05 |
Kevin Norman# |
Texas Tech University | 2019.10 – 2020.05 |
Ryan Rodrigues£ |
Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil | 2019.05 – 2019.09 |
Fnu. Md-Moniruzzaman# |
Texas Tech University | 2019.05 – 2019.09 |
Tristan Berger* |
Higher Engineering School in Limoges, France | 2019.06 – 2019.08 |
Kevin Shu# |
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX | 2018.07 – 2018.08 2019.07 – 2019.08 |
| Robert Martinez Jr.# | Texas Tech University | 2018.09 – 2019.06 |
Julio Mogal |
Texas Tech University | 2018.09 – 2018.12 |
| Abigail Baker | Texas Tech University | 2018.07 – 2018.12 |
Benjamin Paing * |
Université de Limoges, France | 2018.07 – 2018.08 |
| José David Tejeda Tejeda* | Universidad del Norte, Colombia | 2017.07 – 2017.08
|
Victor Manuel Puello Garnica*
|
Universidad del Norte, Colombia | 2016.07 – 2016.08 |
Nicolas Yasserd Yabrudy Perez* |
Universidad del Norte, Colombia | 2016.07 – 2016.08
|
Eli Garza |
Texas Tech University |
2015.07 – 2015.08 |
Helio Ricardo da Silva Junior* |
Federal Unversity of Lavras, Brazil | 2015.07 – 2015.08 |
Douglas Oliveira da Silva* |
Federal University of São João del-Rei, Brazil |
2015.07 – 2015.08 |
| Daniel Pinilla* | Universidad del Norte, Colombia | 2015.06 – 2015.07 |
Isaac Chang |
Texas Tech University |
2014.09 – 2015.06 |
| High School Students | ||
Alvyn Wang& |
Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA | 2019.07 – 2019.08 |
Aliza Escamilla§ |
Harmony Science Academy, Lubbock, TX | 2015.09 – 2015.12 |
| Alia Gill | Frenship High School, Lubbock, TX | 2015.07 – 2015.08 |
Rahil Patel |
Frenship High School, Lubbock, TX | 2015.06 – 2015.07 |
| Adriana Gonzales | Estacado High School, Lubbock, TX | 2015.06 – 2015.07 |
| Visitors | ||
| Dr. Rongwei Guo | Qilu University of Technology, China | 2016.10 – 2017.10 |
Dr. Xiaofang Hong |
Shandong Labor Vocational and Technical College, China | 2016.02 – 2016.08 |
| Others | ||
| Victoria Miles | Texas Tech University | 2020.09 – 2020.12 |
Jinhao Chen |
Transferred to Texas A&M University, College Station, TX | 2013.09 – 2016.06 |
1 TrUE Scholars Program
2 Bridges Across Texas - Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (BAT-LSAMP) Scholar Program
3 Honors College Undergraduate Research Scholars (URS) Program
* Summer Undergraduate Research Program
§ The Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program
& Clark Scholars Program
# NSF REU Program
£ Exchange student