Raktim Bhattacharya received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Aerospace Engineering, followed by an M.S. and Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Minnesota. After that, he was a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech in the Department of Control and Dynamical Systems. After Caltech, he joined United Technologies Research Center as a research scientist. Following that, he joined the Aerospace Engineering department of Texas A&M University in 2005 and is currently a full professor. His research interests include robust control and estimation, nonlinear dynamics, robust control, uncertainty quantification, and convex optimization.