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Biographies
Rajdeep Dutta received his PhD in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Texas at
San Antonio in 2016. He is currently a
Research Associate at Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore.
His research interests include: Dynamics and
Control, Cooperative Control, Game Theory,
Localization and Mapping, and Inverse Problems.
Zachary Ruble received the B.S. degree in
computer engineering from the University of
Wyoming, Laramie, WY USA in 2007 and the
M.S.

and

Ph.D.

degrees

in

electrical

engineering also at the University of Wyoming
in 2009 and 2015 respectively. He is
currently

a

postdoctoral

fellow

in

the

Unmanned Systems Laboratory at the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA.
From 2010 to 2015, he was a Research Assistant with the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Dept. at the University of Wyoming.
Since 2015, he has been with the Unmanned Systems Laboratory
at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. His research interest
includes cooperative unmanned systems, robotics, embedded
systems, and distributed control systems.
Daniel J. Pack is the Dean of the College of
Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Prior
to joining UTC, he was Professor and Mary
Lou Clarke Endowed Department Chair of
the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at the University of Texas, San
Antonio and Professor (now Professor Emeritus) of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy
(USAFA), CO, where he served as founding Director of the Academy
Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research.
He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering, the Master of Science degree in Engineering
Sciences, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from
Arizona State University, Harvard University, and Purdue University,
respectively. His research interests include unmanned aerial
vehicles, intelligent control, automatic target recognition, robotics,
and engineering education.

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