Unmanned Systems Lab · UTSA

People

Lab members

Director

Yongcan Cao — Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering; Mary Lou Clarke Endowed Distinguished Professor. PhD, Utah State University, 2010. Associate Fellow of AIAA. Associate Editor, Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. Chair, IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Manufacturing Automation and Robotic Control.

BSE 1.528  ·  yongcan.cao@utsa.edu  ·  (210) 458-6269  ·  Google Scholar

Current members

Praveen RanjanPostdoctoral fellow, 2025–
Conor WallacePhD student, 2021–
Peilang LiPhD student, 2022–
Umer SiddiquePhD student, 2022–
Hung ChuMS student, 2025–
Ines Hans CapitanMS student, 2025–
Ryan KuykendallUndergraduate, 2025–
Eva MartinezUndergraduate, 2025–
Miguel ElizondoUndergraduate, 2025–
Jared GarzaUndergraduate, 2026–

Alumni

Positions listed are first destinations and may not be current.

NameDegreeFirst destination
Sergio DeleonBS 2026Raytheon
Mingkang WuPhD 2025Path Robotics
Evie RoseMS 2025Corvid Technologies
Jeremy CofieldBS 2025SpaceX
Edward SernaBS 2025CPS Energy
Victor MartinezBS 2025Texas A&M University
Noah HarrisBS 2025Rice University; Bloomberg
Junchao LiPostdoc 2024–2025—
Malik FarooqBS 2024Cornell University (DoD SMART)
Jon AyalaBS 2024Southwest Research Institute
Abhinav SinhaPostdoc 2023University of Cincinnati (faculty)
Devin WhiteMS 2023Army Research Laboratory
Conrad ObengBS 2023Amazon
Van NgoBS 2023General Motors
Joshua BarronBS 2022Amazon
Karina ElizondoBS 2022UTSA (MBA)
Gabriella ForbisBS 2022Dell
Ruben CastilloBS 2022Dell
John WilsonBS 2022NXP Semiconductor
Feng TaoPhD 2021Bosch USA
VC PraveenMS 2021Nvidia
Johnathan VotionPostdoc 2021UTSA
Jooeun HongPhD 2020UTSA
Manuel CortezMS 2020Plusone Robotics
Anthony HarrisBS 2019UT Austin ARL
Brian BenavidezMS 2018Micro Systems Engineering
Nguyen TranMS 2018Cooperative Energy
Justice YaoBS 2018Def-Logix
Daniel MarianoMS 2017Southwest Research Institute
Kasthurirengan SureshMS 2017EnviroCal