Prabir Barooah Assistant Professor   Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of Florida
Contact information email: pbarooah at ufl dot edu phone: (352) 392 0614 fax: (352) 392 7303	Mailing Address MAE-A 322, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

Brief biography:
Prabir Barooah received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007 from the University  of California, Santa Barbara. From 1999 to 2002 he was a research engineer at United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT. He received the M. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1999 and the B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1996.

Research summary:
Prabir Barooah's research interests are in estimation and control of interconnected systems. In particular, his research explores distributed algorithms and their performance limits in large scale sensor networks, and design of decentralized control algorithms for cooperative control in multi-agent robotic networks.

Teaching:
Spring '08: Optimal Estimation (EGM 6934)