People – EDPLab@TAMU

Lab Director: Dr. Suman Chakravorty, Professor (Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University)

Email: schakrav[at]tamu[dot]edu

Bio: I completed my B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in Mechanical Engineering, in 1997, and my PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004. I was an Assistant Professor at A&M from August 2004 – September 2010, and have been in my current position since then. My research focuses on ameliorating the triple curses of NONLINEARITY, DIMENSIONALITY and UNCERTAINTY in estimation and control problems, with applications to Mobile Robotics, Morphing Aircraft and Distributed Parameter Systems. In this website, you will find information about my research group’s work, along with our publications and other news. Thank you for showing interest in our research work and please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about our research.

Research Interests

Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Robotic Mapping and Planning
Space-based High Resolution Imaging Systems

Awards & Honors

Best Paper in conference award at the 2006 AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Breckenridge, CO
Several “best paper in session” awards at the American Control Conference (ACC)
Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow (2010, 2011)

Graduate Students:

Mohamed Naveed, Email: naveed[at]tamu[dot]edu

I’m a graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in the department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M. My primary research work is on Stochastic Optimal Control. Other interests include Distributed State Estimation, Radar reconstruction, and developing robust solutions for indoor autonomy. I received my bachelor’s in Instrumentation and Control engineering from NIT Trichy, India.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mohamednaveed/

Aayushman Sharma, Email: aayushmansharma[at]tamu[dot]edu

I received my Master’s and Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Currently working on applying reinforcement learning on distributed parameter systems or systems governed by partial differential equations.

Ishan Paranjape, Email: ishan.paranjape[at]tamu[dot]edu

Howdy! I am pursuing my PhD in Aerospace Engineering. My research broadly involves sensor scheduling and space situational awareness. Additional research interests include stochastic systems and reinforcement learning. I earned my BS in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin (Hook ’em Horns!), where I had the opportunity to conduct research in various aerospace and electrical engineering topics such as remote sensing and system identification. I additionally have two years of experience doing research in digital signal processing and FPGA-based digital system design for optomechanical and interferometric systems. Outside of research, my hobbies include cartography, making puns, and cooking.

Abhijeet, Email: abhinir[at]tamu[dot]edu

I am a PhD student at Texas A&M University. I did my Bachelors and Masters in
Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. My research area
includes optimal control theory and space situational awareness. Beside my research, my hobby are running and cooking.

Tarun Hejmadi, Email: tarunhejmadi[at]tamu[dot]edu

I am pursuing my MS here at A&M in the Aerospace Engineering department. Currently, my research focuses on optimized sensor tasking with applications in Space Domain Awareness. Other topics of interest include astrodynamics, estimation theory, and satellite attitude dynamics and control.

Past Members:

Dr. Utkarsh Ranjan Mishra, (Ph.D. December 2022)

Astrodynamics Engineer at LeoLabs, Inc.

Worked on space situational awareness, expert in estimation theory especially multi-target tracking algorithms, astrodynamics and orbital mechanics.

Dr. Ran Wang, (Ph.D. August 2022)

Research Scientist at Rockwell Automation.

My primary research direction is to develop a systematic optimal control method for nonlinear complex robotic models in a data-based fashion. I am also interested in the application of tensegrity structures.

Kartik Prakash, (M.S. December 2020)

Robotics Engineer at Corvus Robotics.

Dr. Dilshad Raihan, (Ph.D. May 2019)

Data Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Karthikeya Parunandi, (M.S. December 2019)

Senior Software Engineer at Cruise.

Dr.Saurav Agarwal (Ph.D. December 2017)

Currently the Co-Founder, CTO & COO of SIERA.AI.

Dr.Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei (Ph.D. December 2017)

Senior Robotics Motion Planning Engineer at Plus.

Dr.Weston Faber (Ph.D. Januray 2018)

Research Scientist at L3 Applied Defense Solutions.

Dr.Dan Yu (Ph.D. December 2016)

Dan Yu received the B.S. degree in automation from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2016.
She is currently an Assistant Professor with the College of Astronautics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. Her research interests include distributed systems and robotics.