ISR Alumnus Earns Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Dipankar Maity, Ph.D., an alumnus of the Institute for Systems Research and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support his pioneering research into how autonomous systems collaborate over shared communication networks. Now an electrical and computer engineering assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Maity is developing new control and communication strategies that help technologies like drone fleets, self-driving cars, and smart energy systems coordinate more intelligently and equitably. His project, titled “Timely, Efficient, and Risk-Aware Control and Communication Policies for Networked Multi-Agent Systems,” was awarded $504,913 over five years and integrates advances in decision theory, systems control, and network resource management. The research will establish a new framework for understanding how machines can adapt their behavior based on the quality and availability of communication while enabling the network to respond to the changing needs of individual agents. This dual approach can improve safety, efficiency, and performance across critical transportation, energy, and robotics technologies. Maity completed his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland under the mentorship of ISR Founding Director and Distinguished University Professor John Baras. “Very well-deserved recognition for Dipankar Maity, an outstanding alumnus of the ISR and ECE,” Baras said. “Dipankar already has an outstanding record of accomplishments and publications in a rich set of areas, including resource and communication constrained control, joint optimization of communication and control strategies, various topics of CPS, sensor scheduling, event-triggered control, safety via reachability analysis, finite temporal logic constraints (MITL, STL), multi-agent decision making with asymmetric information patterns. Congratulations and best wishes for continued success!” Since graduating from ISR, Maity has held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, been elevated to IEEE Senior Member, and served on editorial boards for the IEEE Control Systems Society and the European Control Association. He frequently returns to Maryland to share career advice with students and was a featured panelist in the ECE department’s academic career forum in 2021. Maity is the founding director of the COAR Lab, which focuses on Control, Optimization, Autonomy, and Robotics, and is affiliated with UNC Charlotte’s BATT CAVE research center. He received the W. S. Lee College of Engineering Early Career Excellence in Research Award in 2025 and was nominated twice for the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. In addition to mentoring graduate students, he chairs the admissions committee for the M.S. in Electrical Engineering program and plays a leading role in curriculum development. Maity’s achievements reflect the Institute for Systems Research’s longstanding commitment to cultivating interdisciplinary leaders who drive innovation in systems science and engineering. To read more about Maity’s NSF CAREER project, view the award abstract.
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