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AVIA Lab students and collaborators presented work in autonomy, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, energy-aware flight, and AAM operations.

AVIA Lab director at the induction ceremony for the Class of 2026 AIAA Associate Fellows during AIAA SciTech.

AVIA lab received Baylor Ambassadors for a lab tour.

AVIA Lab was part of ECS 30 years events with displays of Drone Soccer and drone flight simulation with VR.

Liang Sun, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical engineering at Baylor, has been elected as a 2026 Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Ph.D. candidate Robert Selje and AVIA lab director Dr. Liang Sun presented their work at the 2025 NAWEA/WindTech conference.

Dr. Trung Pham, Chief Scientist and Technical Advisor for AI-ML at FAA visited Baylor and gave a Seminar Talk on A.I. in Aviation.

AVIA lab member and M.Sc. student, Sofía Aranda Rocha, presented her work at DASC 2025.

Guest talk by Mr. James Sergeant on starting an AIAA Student Chapter.

Dr. Sun gives a presentation to the Waco Chamber.

AVIA lab team presented technical papers and chaired sessions at the AIAA Aviation Forum 2025.

Students from Jerry Knight STEM Academy (6-8 grade students) visiting AVIA Lab.

A PhD Student in the AVIA Lab has presented his work at the Southwest Data Science Conference 2025.

The AVIA Lab will participate in the U.S Drone Soccer and receive all the equipment.