Mechanical Engineering

Liang Sun, Ph.D.

  • AVIA Lab Director
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Sun is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University and the director of the Advanced Vehicle Intelligence and Autonomy (AVIA) lab. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA, in 2012. He is a senior member of AIAA and a senior member of IEEE. 

Research Interests

  • Airborne robotic system dynamics and control
  • Multi-agent intelligence and reasoning
  • Energy-aware and efficient operations of autonomous systems
  • Advanced air mobility

Teaching Interests

  • Dynamic Systems
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
  • Linear Control Theory
  • State Estimation and Kalman Filtering 
Dr. Sun
Contact Information
liang_sun@baylor.edu
(254) 710-4303
Office Location

BRIC 2144.01

Mailing Address

One Bear Place #97356
105 Baylor Avenue
Waco, TX, USA 76706