Derek Hollenbeck is a Postdoc Research Scholar at the University of California, Merced, USA. He is also a lab manager for Mechatronics, Embedded Systems, and Automation (MESA) Lab. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2016 and 2023, respectively. He has research interests in digital twins, fluid mechanics, controls, dynamics, fractional calculus, and cyber-physical systems using small unmanned aerial systems (sUASs) with applications in leak detection, localization, and quantification of methane emissions.