About

I am an associate professor in the Interdisciplinary Program in Systems and Control Engineering at IIT Bombay. I am broadly interested in problems related to dynamical systems and control theory, with particular emphasis on systems governed by partial differential equations. Some of the ongoing research in my group are on the motion planning for thermal systems and flexible structures, parameter estimation of thermal systems, observer design for nonlinear partial differential equations and vibration control in flexible structures

For industry partners: The research activities in my group are often inspired by industrial problems. In the past, I have worked closely with the steel industry and currently I am working with a semiconductor equipment manufacturer. Please see the `Sponsored projects' page for some details. I am constantly on the look out for industrial problems that can be addressed using tools from control theory. In case you would like to speak to me about a potential problem, please drop me a mail. 

For students: The ongoing research in my group involves theoretical, computational and experimental studies. I encourage prospective postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and MTech students interested in dynamics and control to write to me outlining their interests and how they align with the research activities of the group. IIT Bombay undergraduates willing to work on problems for at least 6 months can contact me.

Research areas

Partial differential equations, flexible structures, inverse problems, adaptive control, multiagent networks, periodic systems, vibration control, output regulation.

Experience

• Associate professor, Systems & Control, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, since May 2021.

• Assistant professor, Systems & Control, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

• Postdoctoral scholar, Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Education

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• MS, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• MS, Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University

• BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Announcements

[21st September 2023] Visited International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bengaluru, for two days and delivered a talk on ``Motion Planning for 1D Parabolic PDEs''

[12th July 2023] Paper on ``Rejecting an unknown matched disturbance from an infinite-dimensional control system'' with Bhagyashri and Pavan accepted for presentation in the 62nd Conference on Decision and Control to be held at Singapore in December 2023

[10th July 2023] Organized the SysCon Summer School 2023 from 5th July - 7th July, see https://sites.google.com/iitb.ac.in/syscon-summer-school-2023 for details

[1st June 2023] New consultancy project funded by John Deere Indian Private Limited has started 

[22nd May 2023] Delivered an invited talk on `Nonsmooth feedback control of infinite-dimensional systems' at the Third International Conference on Applications of Mathematics to Nonlinear Sciences, Pokhara (Nepal), May 25-28 

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