Kamesh Subbarao

Dr. Kamesh Subbarao is a Professor and director of the Aerospace Systems Laboratory (ASL) in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He has been a faculty member at UTA since 2003, progressing from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and finally to Professor in 2019. His academic journey began with a PhD from Texas A&M University in 2001, followed by work at The MathWorks Inc. before joining UTA.

Dr. Subbarao's educational background includes a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University (2001), an MS in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (1995), and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (1993).

His research interests span flight dynamics and control, unmanned vehicle systems, morphing wing aircraft structures, air traffic management, reduced order modeling of fluid-structure interactions, cooperative control of large scale interconnected systems subject to communication delays, multi-sensor fusion applied to aircraft guidance and spacecraft navigation, bipedal locomotion, and uncertainty characterization in orbital mechanics. His work focuses on nonlinear and adaptive control, linear and nonlinear filtering/estimation approaches, and cooperation and coordination for multiple unmanned vehicles subject to measurement uncertainties and distributed time delays.

Dr. Subbarao's recent publications demonstrate strong focus on uncertainty quantification, cooperative control of multiple vehicles, UAV swarms, lunar exploration, and aircraft safety. His research shows a consistent trajectory toward more complex multi-agent systems, incorporating machine learning techniques for improved prediction and control, with applications spanning both terrestrial and space environments.

• President's Excellence in Teaching Award (2021)
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Teaching Award (2016)
• AIAA Foundation Award for "Model Reference Adaptive Control" (2001)
• Best Paper of the Space Flight Mechanics Conference, American Astronautical Society (2021)
• Multiple Outstanding Reviewer awards from AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Dr. Subbarao has been actively involved in advising students, as evidenced by his nomination for the Outstanding Advisor Award in 2018-19. His research has been generously funded by major organizations including DARPA, NSF, AFRL, ONR, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Whirlpool Inc., Nextgen Aeronautics, and Hypercomp Inc. His laboratory work, particularly through the Aerospace Systems Laboratory, has produced significant contributions to the field of aerospace engineering and control systems.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS), an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and Senior Member of IEEE, ASME, and the American Astronautics Society (AAS), reflecting his standing in the academic and professional community.