Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University
Email: c1wei@odu.edu; Office: 2300 Engineering & Computational Sciences Building #1316, Norfolk, VA 23529
Biography
Cong Wei earned his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering at University of Delaware, USA in 2021. He was a postdoctoral associate at Maryland Robotics Center of Institute for System Research (ISR) of University of Maryland from 2021-2023. He received the M.S. degree in ocean engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2014 and the B.S. degree in marine engineering from Ningbo University, Ningbo, China, in 2012.
From 2014 to 2016, he was a research assistant at Institute of Underwater Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests
Cong Wei’s research interests include control algorithm design for multi-agent system, nonlinear system, robotic navigation, adaptive sampling using autonomous system and large-scale monitoring using autonomous systems. Cong has specific interests in robotics/control for marine application or for other domains where the robots’ motion is high influenced by the ambient environment.