Dipankar Maity to receive Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award from UMD Graduate School

Dipankar Maity, a graduate student in ECE and ISR, is one of approximately 80 winners of the University of Maryland Graduate School's 2016–2017 Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award. The award recognizes the outstanding contributions that graduate assistants provide to students, faculty, departments, administrative units and the university as a whole. Winners of the award are among the top 2 percent of GAs on campus in a given year. The awards will be given at the annual Fellowship and Award Celebration on May 11.

Maity is advised by Professor John Baras (ECE/ISR). His research interests are in controls, robotics, and networked cyber-physical systems. He has focused on the intersection of control and formal verification engineered for complex cyber-physical systems. He is a member of Autonomy Robotics Cognition (ARC) lab, where he works on implementing these algorithms to robotics.

Published May 8, 2017