Rushikesh Kamalapurkar received his M.S. and his Ph.D. degrees in 2011 and 2014 from the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. After working for a year as a postdoctoral researcher, he was
appointed as the 2015-16 MAE postdoctoral teaching fellow. From 2016 to 2024 he served as a member of the faculty
of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University. In 2024, he joined the faculty of
UF MAE, where he directs the Systems, Cognition, and Control laboratory. His research interests are intelligent, data driven
control and operator-theoretic machine learning. His work has been recognized by the 2022 OSU CEAT Excellent Scholar
Award, a 2017 election to the grade of IEEE Senior Member, a 2015 UF MAE Best Dissertation Award, and a 2014 UF MAE
Outstanding Graduate Research Award.