Gabriel Dimonde

Lafayette, LA 70592

I’m Gabriel Dimonde, a mechanical engineer and PhD student researching geodesic path planning on Riemannian manifolds, Gauss’s Principle of Least Constraint, and low-power robotic sensing.

I’m driven by deriving mathematical models for physical systems, from advanced dynamics and kinematics to heat transfer and machine design. At BlueCollar, I learned that elegant solutions beat perfect ones: ship what works, efficiently.

I’m drawn to industries where engineering moves the needle: agricultural automation, energy conversion, space exploration, and environmental conservation. Long-term, I want to teach, to be the kind of old dude who inspires his students to work with a higher capacity to care.

Outside of engineering: lifting, learning, and the people who make it worthwhile.

news

Apr 16, 2025	Imece Paper

selected publications

IMECE2025

Temperature and Force While Forming A1100 Round Solid Cylinders in a Friction Stir Extrusion Machine

William J. Emblom, Jhonatan Gil Romero, Gabriel Dimonde, and 8 more authors

In Proc. ASME Int. Mech. Eng. Congr. Exp. (IMECE2025), 2025

DOI Bib HTML

@inproceedings{dimonde2025temperature,
  title = {Temperature and Force While Forming A1100 Round Solid Cylinders in a Friction Stir Extrusion Machine},
  author = {Emblom, William J. and Gil Romero, Jhonatan and Dimonde, Gabriel and Bloss, Alaric and Casse, Grahm and Daugereau, Paul and Garcia, Jacob and Bolden, Javen and Wagner, Scott W. and Nguyen, Vinh and Darby, Paul},
  booktitle = {Proc. ASME Int. Mech. Eng. Congr. Exp. (IMECE2025)},
  year = {2025},
  number = {164201},
  doi = {10.1115/IMECE2025-164201},
}

funding

Louisiana Board of Regents GRASS (Summer 2026) — $10,000: Integrated trajectory planning and control for scalable multi-UAV crop monitoring in smart agriculture (Graduate Researcher)