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, and a 2003 NASA group achievement award.

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 here. (Note to potential graduate students: the best place to get an idea of someone's current research is the list of his/her recent publications. In my case, it's here.)

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)

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