Dr. Tamás Kalmár-Nagy, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

His award is the 11th CAREER award received by Texas A&M Engineering faculty in 2008-2009.

Kalmár-Nagy received the award for his proposal, “Stability and Performance of Systems with Network-Induced Delays.”

Through the next five years, Kalmár-Nagy will receive $440,000 for his research, which is aimed at developing a novel theoretical and computational framework for studying interconnected systems with random time delays.

Interconnected systems are common in chemical and nuclear plants, cars, and aircrafts, making research about their stability and security important. Since interconnected systems communicate large amounts of dynamic data, signal delays are common and, to date, can only be characterized statistically.

Kalmár-Nagy, who earned his doctoral degree from Cornell University in 2002, joined the faculty at Texas A&M University 2006. His research interests include the control of autonomous vehicles, networked control systems, systems with delay and nonlinear dynamics.

His research could impact a broad range of applications that use interconnected components, including space exploration, mobile sensor networks, teleoperated surgical robots and integrated building systems.

Kalmár-Nagy said that his project “integrates research and education at a FUNdamental level.”

Students will have the opportunity to participate in a multidisciplinary, multilevel project that emphasizes practical problem solving, creative design and the scientific method. To couple educational activities with experimental validation of the proposed theory, a distributed testbed of vehicles/robots will be built by a multidisciplinary and multilevel team under Kalmár-Nagy’s supervision.

The CAREER Award was established to support junior faculty within the context of their overall career development, combining in a single program the support of research and education of the highest quality and in the broadest sense. Through this program, the NSF emphasizes the importance on the early development of academic careers dedicated to stimulating the discovery process in which the excitement of research is enhanced by inspired teaching and enthusiastic learning.

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