Welcome!
Welcome to the SANDy (Safe Autonomy & Nonlinear Dynamics) Lab at the Wichita State University! Our lab, led by Dr. Tamas Molnar, focuses on dynamics and control, with applications to connected automated vehicles, vehicular traffic, robotic and autonomous systems, and more. We are aiming at improving the performance of these systems while guaranteeing their safe behavior, using theory, numerical analysis, simulations and experiments.
Dr. Tamas Molnar
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University
101C Engineering Building, 1845 Fairmount St, Wichita, KS 67260, USA
+1 (316) 978-6381
tamas.molnar@wichita.edu
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I am an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Wichita State University (since 2023 fall). Beforehand, I held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology (2020-2023) and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2018-2020). I received my PhD (2018) and MSc (2015) in Mechanical Engineering and my BSc (2013) in Mechatronics Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
Group
Laszlo Gacsi
PhD Student(2024 fall)
Shaibal Das
PhD Student(2025 spring)
Our visit to NASA JPL with Calla Unruh and Avery Thomas (WSU undergraduates) as part of a Kansas NASA EPSCoR Partnership Development Grant.
Research Interests
| nonlinear dynamics and control | safety-critical control | time delay systems |
| connected automated vehicles | robotic systems | autonomous systems |
Prospective Students/Postdocs
If you are interested in joining my lab, please fill out this form. I will monitor the form, while I may not be able to respond to e-mails directly.
