Rate My Professor Kamesh Subbarao

Dr. Kamesh Subbarao serves as the Jenkins Garrett Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he also directs the Aerospace Systems Laboratory and acts as Graduate Advisor for Aerospace Engineering. He joined the university in 2003 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009, and to Professor in 2019. Earlier in his career, Subbarao worked as an Applications Developer at The MathWorks Inc. from 2001 to 2003, contributing to the Controls and Systems Identification and Estimation Toolboxes. Prior to that, he held scientist positions from 1995 to 1998 at the Aeronautical Development Agency in Bengaluru, India, and the Defence Research & Development Laboratory in Hyderabad, India. His academic background includes a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2001, an ME in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru in 1995, and a BTech in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1993.

Subbarao's research interests encompass flight mechanics and control, uncrewed systems, astrodynamics and celestial mechanics, modeling, simulation, estimation, and control of nonlinear and distributed-parameter systems, as well as cooperative control and coordination for multiple unmanned vehicle systems. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 journal and peer-reviewed conference publications. His work has attracted funding from agencies such as DARPA, NSF, AFRL, ONR, NASA, and industry partners including Lockheed Martin and Whirlpool Inc. Subbarao teaches undergraduate courses in flight dynamics, astronautics, automatic control, engineering analysis, and unmanned vehicle systems, and graduate courses in optimal estimation and control, GNC of aerospace vehicles, advanced flight mechanics, advanced astronautics, and unmanned vehicle systems. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the American Astronautical Society, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a Senior Member of IEEE and ASME. Notable honors include the College of Engineering Teaching Award in 2022, President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2021, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016, and AIAA Foundation Award for Model Reference Adaptive Control in 2001.