Boyang Chen

Boyang Chen

I'm a senior at UCI studying mechanical engineering and math.

I've interned at AIRI Lab and Lumitron Technologies. I've also done research with Wilson Ho's group and Julian J. Rimoli's lab.

Currently, I am designing and building an automated propeller test stand at the UCI Aircraft Systems Laboratory to conduct experiments on propeller noise in special configurations.

I am a student pilot and I play piano.

Boyang Chen portrait

Selected work

Research

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Mapping Propeller Noise Across Scales poster showing the custom test platform, electronics, research hypothesis, and preliminary measurements
2026UROP · AIAA ASAT

Mapping Propeller Noise Across Scales

I designed and built our lab's anechoic chamber and three generations of test stands to study how propeller noise changes across scales.

Boyang Chen

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System diagram of fiber Bragg grating sensor clusters distributed across a Boeing 747 and connected to an interrogator and computer for strain analysis
2026AIAA AVIATION 2026 Forum

Smart Sensor Placement Using Machine Learning and Bayes Risk for Structural Health Monitoring of Air Vehicles

An aircraft structural health monitoring framework that uses machine learning and Bayes risk to place strain sensors where they provide the most reliable evidence of damage.

Vanessa Chung, Boyang Chen, Addison Rushing, Jacqueline Huynh

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Making

Projects

The UC Irvine AIRSHIELD team at the 2026 NASA Blue Skies Competition

2026 · National Finalist

NASA Blue Skies Competition

We designed AIRSHIELD to detect aircraft damage with onboard sensors and machine learning.

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The full UCI Liquid Rocket team together at FAR

UC Irvine · Launch Vehicle Team

UCI Liquid Rocket

I supported our rocket team with flight CFD, component modeling in Siemens NX, and manufacturing work including carbon fiber layup, 3D printing, and manual assembly.

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Our pneumatic rover with its air storage tire above the chassis

MAE 106 · UC Irvine

Pneumatic Rover

We built a rover powered by compressed air for MAE 106. I coordinated the team, helped with the SolidWorks design, and wrote and tuned the control code. We placed second in our competition group.

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Mentorship

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Students and a mentor working together at the propeller test stand in the laboratory.
Summers 2025 & 2026Research mentor

UCI x GATI

In the summers of 2025 and 2026, I guided high school students through experimental design, data collection, and propeller noise analysis using a test stand I designed.

TRIP program members gathered outdoors for a group photo.
2026Student researcher

ITS TRIP Program 2026

Alongside my summer research through ITS TRIP, I helped introduce visiting elementary school students to engineering and connected Irvine Valley College students with research and project opportunities.