Bio

Shaunak D. Bopardikar is an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and is affiliated with the Center for Connected Autonomous Networked Vehicles for Active Safety (CANVAS) at the Michigan State University. His research interests lie in autonomous motion planning and control, in cyber-physical security and in scalable computation and optimization. He received the Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) and Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, in 2010. From 2004 to 2005, he was an Engineer with General Electric India Technology Center, Bangalore, India. From 2011 to 2018, he was a Staff Research Scientist with the Controls group of United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) at East Hartford, CT, USA and at Berkeley, CA. Prior to joining UTRC, Dr. Bopardikar worked as a post-doctoral associate at UC Santa Barbara (2010-2011) during which he developed randomized algorithms for solving large matrix games. He is a senior member of the IEEE, has over 80 refereed journal and conference publications and is a co-inventor on 2 U.S. patents. His recognitions include a 2021 Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowship, a 2023 National Science Foundation Career Award, the 2023 IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy's Best Student Paper Award (as advisor) and a 2024 Michigan State University College of Engineering's Withrow Excellence in Teaching Award from the ECE Department.