Dr. Chang-kwon Kang Associate Professor, MAE Contact 5000 Technology Drive NWOlin B. King Technology HallRoom N266Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.6612chang-kwon.kang@uah.edu Biography Dr. Chang-kwon Kang is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He has co-authored a book and around 70 journal and conference papers on unsteady aerodynamics, bioinspired aerial and Mars vehicles, insect flight, and fluid-structure interaction. He received his bachelor's and master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2011. He was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan before joining UAH in 2013. Curriculum Vitae Personal Website Education Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 2011 M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2005 B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2002 Honors & Awards University of Alabama in Huntsville, Outstanding Junior Faculty of the College of Engineering, 2019 2019 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Best Student Paper (Madhu Sridhar): AIAA 2019-0566 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow, 2018 University of Alabama in Huntsville Individual Investigator Distinguished Research Award, 2014 Affiliations Associate Fellow - AIAA Expertise Bioinspired and unsteady fluid dynamics Bioinspired aerospace vehicles for terrestrial and Mars flight Fluid-structure-dynamic interaction Computational fluid dynamics Recent Publications Vechalapu, T. R., Kang, C., and Kanistras, K. “Experimental Investigation of Effects of Spanwise Segmented Blowing on a Circulation Control Wing with a Dual-Radius Flap,” Experiments in Fluids, Accepted for publication, 2025 Hill, J., Fahimi, F., Kang, C., and Aono, H. “Adaptive Discrete Time Sliding Mode Pitch Controller for a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle,” Journal of Bionic Engineering, Vol. 22, 2025, pp. 585–595 Pohly, J., Kang, C., and Aono, H. “Deciphering the Flapping Frequency Allometry: Unveiling the Role of Sustained Body Attitude in the Aerodynamic Scaling of Normal Hovering Animals,” Biology Open, Vol. 14, Issue 3, 2025 Kang, C., Twigg, R., Aono, H., Lee, T., Sridhar, M.K. “Power Benefits of High-Altitude Flapping Wing Flight at Monarch Butterfly Scale,” Biomimetics (2023 impact factor: 3.4), Vol. 8, Nr. 4, 2023, pp. 352 Shimura, K., Aono, H., Kang, C. “An Experimental Study on Response and Control of a Flapping-wing Aerial Robot under Wind Gusts,” Journal of Bionic Engineering (2023 impact factor: 4.9), Vol. 21, 2023, pp. 209–223 Tsuchiya, S., Aono, H., Asai, K., Nonomura, T., Ozawa, Y., Anyoji, M., Ando, N., Kang, C., and Pohly, J., “First lift-off and flight performance of a tailless flapping-wing aerial robot in high-altitude environments,” Scientific Reports, Vol. 13, 2023, pp. 8995 Miyasaka, S., Aono, H., Kang, C., “Experimental Analyses of Aerodynamic Force Generation and Wing Motion Associated with a Single-motor-driven Butterfly-inspired Flapping-wing Robot,” Sensors and Materials, Vol. 35, Nr. 9, 2023, pp. 3097-3108 Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Aono, H., Mathis, S.H., Lee, T., “Unconventionally high lift coefficients in Monarch butterflies at high-altitude conditions”, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2019 impact factor: 3.062), Vol. 16, 2021, 034002 K. C., Tejaswi, Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., and Lee, T, “Effects of Abdomen Undulation in Energy Consumption and Stability for the Flights of Monarch Butterfly,” Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2019 impact factor: 3.062), in press Hefner, C, Kang, C., Qiu, H., and Shyy, W. "Distinct Aerodynamics of Insect Flight," Cambridge Elements, in press