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 was born in Jorhat, Assam (india). He 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. Dr. Barooah is the winner of the best paper award at the 2nd Int. Conf. on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (2005), NASA group achievement award (2003), and General Chairs' Recognition Award for Interactive papers at the 2009 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

Research summary:
My research interests are in estimation and control of interconnected systems. In particular, my research group 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. More details can be found in myresearch page and publications page.

Teaching:
Spring '08: Optimal Estimation (EGM 6934)
Fall '08: System Identification (EML 4930)
Spring '09: Control of Mechanical Engineering Systems (EML 4312)
Fall '09: Optimal Estimation (EML 6934)
Spring '10: Control System Theory (EML 5311, see Teaching page)

Current students
1. Chenda Liao
2. Joseph Knuth
3. He Hao

Travel

Feb 17 - Feb 20, 2010 (Portland State University)