Dr. Pan Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Alabama. Before joining UA in 2023, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He got his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 from the University of British Columbia.
Office: Tom Bevil Building 1103D
Phone: (205) 348-2807
Email: pan.zhao AT ua.edu
Fall 2022— (Co-advised with Dr. Jordan Larson)
alhallmark@crimson.ua.edu
M.S., Unviersity of Alabama, 2022
B.S., Unviersity of Alabama, 2022
Advanced control of VTOL aircraft
Fall 2024—
mniloy1@crimson.ua.edu
B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, RUET, 2022
Learning-based control
Fall 2024—
aedgell@crimson.ua.edu
M.S., National Test Pilot School, 2020
B.E., University of Southampton, 2002
Adaptive control of space vehicles
Casey Derringer
CS, Fall 2024—
cjderringer@crimson.ua.edu
AI for agriculture
Oliver Monrose
AEM, Fall 2024—
odmonrose@crimson.ua.edu
Spray drone development
Will Mulherm, undergraduate student in CS, 2023-2024