Rate My Professor Raktim Bhattacharya

Raktim Bhattacharya is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he also serves as Director of the Graduate Studies Program. He earned his B.Tech degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1996. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of Minnesota, obtaining an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in 2003. Following his doctoral work, Bhattacharya held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He subsequently worked as a Research Scientist at United Technologies Research Center before joining the Texas A&M University Department of Aerospace Engineering in 2005, advancing to full professor status.

Bhattacharya's research focuses on robust control and estimation, nonlinear dynamics, uncertainty quantification, convex optimization, and related areas including control, estimation, and optimization. His contributions are evidenced by over 2,066 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 22 and i10-index of 55. Notable publications include "Guaranteed Robust Performance of H∞ Filters With Sparse and Low Precision Sensing" (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023, with V.M. Deshpande), "Optimal Sensor Precision for Multirate Sensing for Bounded Estimation Error" (IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2022, with N. Das), "Dispersion Analysis in Hypersonic Flight During Planetary Entry Using Stochastic Liouville Equation" (AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2011), "Frequency Domain Model Validation in Wasserstein Metric" (ACC, 2013, with A. Halder), and "Probabilistic Robustness Analysis of F-16 Controller Performance: An Optimal Transport Approach" (ACC, 2013, with A. Halder and K. Lee). In 2017, he was selected as an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). His work appears in prestigious venues such as IEEE Transactions, AIAA journals, and major conferences like CDC and ACC.