Journal Publications
Gao, Z., Pocayo, A., and Clarke, J., Developing virtual acoustic terrain for Urban Air Mobility trajectory planning, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Vol. 120, 2023, 103794.
Gao, Z. and Mavris, D.N., Statistics and Machine Learning in Aviation Environmental Impact Analysis: A Survey of Recent Progress, Aerospace, 9, No. 12: 750.
Gao, Z., Kampezidou, S.I., Behere, A., Puranik, T.G., Rajaram, D., and Mavris, D.N., Multi-level Aircraft Feature Representation and Selection for Aviation Environmental Impact Analysis, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Vol. 143, 2022, 103824.
Gao, Z., Puranik, T.G., and Mavris, D.N., Probabilistic REpresentatives Mining (PREM): A Clustering Method for Distributional Data Reduction, AIAA Journal, Vol. 60, No. 4 (2022), pp. 2580-2596.
Gao, Z., Li, Y., Puranik, T.G., and Mavris, D.N., Minimax and Multi-criteria Selection of Representative Model Portfolios for Complex Systems Analysis, AIAA Journal, Vol. 60, No. 3 (2022), pp. 1505-1521.
Gao, Z., Behere, A., Li, Y., Lim, D., Kirby, M., and Mavris, D.N., Development and Statistical Analysis of the Improved Departure Modeling for Aviation Environmental Impact Assessment, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 58, No. 4 (2021), pp. 847-857.
Gao, Z., Li, Y., and Wang, Z. (2020)., Restoring the real world records in Mens swimming without high-tech swimsuits, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 16(4), 291-300. [Acceptance Rate: 10.8%]
Cai, Y., Gao, Z., Chakraborty, I., Briceno, S., and Mavris, D.N., System-Level Assessment of Active Flow Control for Commercial Aircraft High-Lift Devices, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 55, No. 3 (2018), pp. 1200-1216.
Cai, Y., Gao, Z., Chakraborty, I., Briceno, S., and Mavris, D.N., Parametric Approach to Assessing Performance of High-Lift Device Active Flow Control Architectures, Aerospace 2017, 4(1), Special Issue: Aircraft Design.
Conference Publications
Gao, Z., Li, Y., Kirby, M., and Mavris, D.N., Sensitivity Analysis of Aviation Environmental Impacts for the Base of Aircraft Data (BADA) Family 4, AIAA SciTech Conference, Virtual Event, Jan 11-15 & 19-21, 2021, AIAA Paper 2021-0457
Behere, A., Lim, D., Li, Y., Jin, Y., Gao, Z., Kirby, M., and Mavris, D.N., Sensitivity Analysis of Airport level Environmental Impacts to Aircraft thrust, weight, and departure procedures, AIAA SciTech Conference, Orlando FL, Jan 6-10, 2020, AIAA Paper 2020-1731
Lim, D., Behere, A., Jin, Y., Li, Y., Kirby, M., Gao, Z., and Mavris, D.N., Improved Noise Abatement Departure Procedure Modeling for Aviation Environmental Impact Assessment, AIAA SciTech Conference, Orlando FL, Jan 6-10, 2020, AIAA Paper 2020-1730
Mangortey, E., Monteiro, D., Ackley, J., Gao, Z., Puranik, T., Kirby, M., Pinon-Fischer, O., and Mavris, D.N., Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Parameter Selection for Flight Risk Identification, AIAA SciTech Conference, Orlando FL, Jan 6-10, 2020, AIAA Paper 2020-1850
Gao, Z., Lim, D., Schwartz, K.G., and Mavris, D.N., A Nonparametric-based Approach for the Characterization and Propagation of Epistemic Uncertainty due to Small Datasets, AIAA SciTech Conference, San Diego CA, Jan 7-11, 2019, AIAA Paper 2019-1490
Gao, Z., Lin, P., Chakraborty, A., Sells, B.E., Briceno, S., Crossley, W., and Mavris, D.N., Challenges and Opportunities: A Strategic General Aviation Exploratory Analysis for 2030, AIAA SciTech Conference, Kissimmee FL, Jan 8-12, 2018, AIAA Paper 2018-2009
Cai, Y., Gao, Z., Chakraborty, I., Briceno, S., and Mavris, D.N., System-Level Assessment of Active Flow Control for Commercial Aircraft High-Lift Devices, AIAA SciTech Conference, Grapevine TX, Jan 9-13, 2017, AIAA Paper 2017-1627
Thesis & Dissertation
Gao, Z., Representative Data and Models for Complex Aerospace Systems Analysis, Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2022. [Link] [Defense Presentation]
Gao, Z., A Nonparametric-based Approach on the Propagation of Imprecise Probabilities due to Small Datasets, Master's Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2018. [Link]
Miscellaneous
And... [This] is the report of my first ever research project in sophomore year. It is a summer research internship project on aerodynamics. It was my first taste of research and a pretty interesting (and precious) experience for me. I'll be forever grateful for the research group in NUS for accommodating me with a good project and allocating me enough time to use their lab equipments.