- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Council Faculty Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-3578
- FAX: 979-845-3081
- Email: srathinam@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 506
- Website: Research Webpage
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Civil Systems Engineering, University of California, Berkeley – 2007
- M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley – 2006
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University – 2001
- B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras – 1999
Research Interests
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- Motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles
- Collaborative decision making
- Combinatorial optimization
- Vision-based and air traffic control
- Artificial Intelligence
Certifications & Memberships
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) – 2021
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – 2019
Awards & Honors
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Finalist Award - 2025
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Finalist Award in Automation - 2025
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University - 2023
- Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award, J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Council - 2022
- Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award, J. Mike Walker ‘66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Council – 2021
- Best Paper Runner-Up Award, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) – 2021
- Senior Summer Faculty Fellowship, Office of Naval Research – 2021, 2020
- Summer Faculty Fellowship, Air Force Research Laboratory – 2015
- Best paper award, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems – 2015
- Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan '65 Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching – 2012
Selected Publications
- C*: A New Bounding Approach for the Moving-Target Traveling Salesman Problem, AG Philip, Z Ren, S Rathinam, H Choset, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2025.
- EMOA*: A framework for Search-based Multi-Objective Path Planning, Z Ren et al., Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
- The Persistent Robot Charging Problem for Long-Duration Autonomy, N Kumar, JJ Lee, S Rathinam, S Darbha, PB Sujit, R Raman, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025.
- A* for Graphs of Convex Sets, K Sundar, S Rathinam, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2025.
- Small and Rural Towns’ Perception of Autonomous Vehicles: Insights from a Survey in Texas, M Usman et al., Transportation Planning and Technology 47 (2), 200-225, 2024.