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30 April 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Members of Drones


Drones (ISSN: 2504-446X) is pleased to announce the following 25 researchers, who have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Drones community!

Name: Dr. Baigang Mi
Affiliations:
1 Northwestern Polytechnical University, China;
2 National Key Laboratory of Aircraft Configuration Design, China
Keywords: multidisciplinary optimization design of UAVs; path planning; flight control; information fusion; information perception

 

Name: Dr. Chi Xu
Affiliation: Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Keywords: industrial internet; edge computing; 5G/6G; networking for AI

Name: Dr. Dandan Peng
Affiliation: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Keywords: UAV condition monitoring; intelligent fault diagnosis; prognostics and health management; AI-driven sensing and monitoring; digital twin

 

Name: Dr. Dayi Zhang
Affiliation: University of Strathclyde, UK
Keywords: automated inspection; industrial drones; ultrasound; photogrammetry

 

Name: Dr. Deepak Akiwate
Affiliation: University of Salford, UK
Keywords: aeroacoustics; propeller noise; propeller–wing interaction; metamaterials; UAM noise; bio-inspired noise control; acoustics

Name: Dr. Derek Hollenbeck
Affiliation: University of California Merced, USA
Keywords: sUAS; control systems; mechatronics; remote sensing; methane; digital twins; cyber physical systems; fractional calculus

Name: Dr. Dongdong Li
Affiliation: National University of Defense Technology, China
Keywords: developing air-to-ground sensing algorithms for drones (e.g., classification, detection, tracking, localization, and mapping)

 

Name: Dr. Haoxuan Dong
Affiliation: National University of Singapore, Singapore
Keywords: connected and automated vehicles; electric vehicles; vehicle dynamics; autonomous driving; eco-driving; decision making; energy management; optimal control; reinforcement learning

 

Name: Prof. Dr. I. de Zarzà
Affiliations:
1
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain;
2 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Keywords: vehicular technologies; large language models; visual language models; AI; UAV; applied mathematics

 

Name: Dr. Jialong Zhang
Affiliation: National University of Defense Technology, China
Keywords: UAV swarm cooperative control; tracking control; operational mission planning

 

Name: Dr. João Pedro Matos-Carvalho
Affiliation: Universidade Lusófona—Centro Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Keywords: computer vision; artificial intelligence; UAV; autonomous systems; navigation; localization; remote sensing

Name: Prof. Dr. Joaquim de Curtò i Díaz
Affiliation: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Keywords: vehicular technologies; IoT; AI; large language models; visual language models; cognitive radio

 

Name: Dr. Kun Zhang
Affiliation: Beihang University, China
Keywords: intelligent controls; learning control; adaptive dynamic programming; data-driven control; vehicles

 

Name: Dr. Kyuman Lee
Affiliation: Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea
Keywords: autonomous flight; robot perception; sensor fusion; simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); navigation and control

 

Name: Dr. Narsimlu Kemsaram
Affiliation: University College London (UCL), London, UK
Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles; multi-robot systems; swarm robotics; robotics and AI

 

Name: Dr. Neng Ye
Affiliation: Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Keywords: space–air–ground integrated wireless communications; UAV communications; satellite communications; secure communications; multiple access; radio signal processing; AI for wireless networks

 

Name: Dr. Runze Dong
Affiliation: Air Force Engineering University, China
Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle; path planning; integrated sensing and communication; deep reinforcement learning

 

Name: Dr. Salvatore Rosario Bassolillo
Affiliation: University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Keywords: automated inspection; industrial drones; ultrasound; photogrammetry; UAV; guidance; navigation and control; optimal control; adaptive control; distributed state estimation; consensus; system identification; flight mechanics; flight dynamics

Name: Prof Dr. Shu Fu
Affiliation: Chongqing University, China
Keywords: B5G/6G ultra-dense cellular network; UAV; low-orbit satellite communication

 

Name: Dr. Shuting Xu
Affiliation: Beihang University, China
Keywords: flight dynamics and control

 

Name: Dr. Tengfei Huang
Affiliation: Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
Keywords: autonomous vehicles

Name: Dr. Vasil Yordanov
Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keywords: disaster; landslides; remote sensing; UAV; photogrammetry; disaster; monitoring; mapping; geospatial artificial intelligence; open science

 

Name: Prof. Dr. Weiran Yao
Affiliation: Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Keywords: autonomous decision-making; unmanned aerial vehicles; mission planning

 

Name: Dr. Wilfried Yves Hamilton Adoni
Affiliation: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany
Keywords: drones; UAV; swarming; robotic; AI; big data; HPC; smart agriculture; smart cities

 

Name: Dr. Xiangyu Li
Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Keywords: land-use planning; policy adoption; spatial analysis; drone; GIS

 

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