Andrew R. Cavender
Ph.D. Student

Email: acavende "at" ucsd "dot" edu

Mailing Address:
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California - San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411

Resume: [pdf]
Curriculum Vitae: coming soon!

Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Thomas Bewley
M.S. Advisor: Professor William McEneaney

Research Interests:

• Robust control of aerospace vehicles
  • Robust nonlinear H_∞ control
  • Control synthesis via dynamic programming
  • Stochastic games
• Estimation and prediction of nonlinear and low-SNR systems
  • Bayesian estimation
  • H_∞ filtering
  • Unscented filtering
• Modern computational structural dynamics of aerospace vehicles
• Reverse engineering alien technologies

Past Coursework

Teaching:

• TA for MAE 155B, Aircraft Design, Spring 2008
• TA for MAE 2, Intro to Aerospace, Fall 2006/2007