Dr. Kamesh Subbarao

Biography

Director of the Aerospace Systems Laboratory in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his BTech from the IIT, Kanpur (1993), M.E. from the IISc, Bangalore (1995), and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (2001), all in aerospace engineering. He worked as an Applications Developer at MathWorks (2001–2003) in the Controls and Systems Identification and Estimation Toolboxes group. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Subbarao was at the Aeronautical Development Agency in Bangalore, where he contributed to the verification and validation of the flight control laws for India's indigenous light combat aircraft leading to airworthiness certification. Since joining UT Arlington, he has contributed in the areas of flight mechanics and control, astrodynamics, nonlinear and adaptive control, linear and nonlinear filtering/estimation, cooperation and coordination for multiple unmanned vehicles subject to measurement uncertainties and distributed time delays. Dr. Subbarao's research has been funded largely by ONR, NASA, NSF, AFRL, DARPA, and Lockheed Martin. He received the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Teaching Award (2016), President's Excellence in Teaching Award (Tenured) 2021, and College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2022. He also received the AIAA Foundation Graduate Award for “Model Reference Adaptive Control” (2001). He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the American Astronautical Society, Associate Fellow of AIAA and Senior Member of IEEE and ASME. He has authored over 200 journal and peer-reviewed conference publications and is the Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.