Archive of News and Events held in SysCon


2021 – 2022 2020 – 2021 2019 – 2020 2018 – 2019 2017 – 2018 2016 – 2017 2015 – 2016  

News and Events of Year 2021 - 22

[16 Dec 22]: Prof. Bandyopadhyay has received status of "IEEE Life Fellow"
[15 Dec 22]: 2nd year Ph.D. student Manish Kumar Singh has received the best student paper award at the Indian Control Conference this year for his paper "Strategic Multiclass Classification with Non-uniform Preferences and its Relation to Incentive Compatibility"
[6 Oct 22]: Talk by Prof. Constantine Morarescu from University de Lorraine, France was held as part of SysConTalks
[21 Sept 22]: Talk by Dr. Matthew Kvalheim from University of Michigan was held as part of SysConTalks
[26 Jul 22]: Talk by Dr. Miheer Dewaskar from Duke University was held as part of SysConTalks
[1 Jul 22]: The paper: Geometric Second-Order Laplacian Flow for Consensus on Lie Groups, by Rama Seshan (IIT Madras) and Ravi N Banavar and Arun D Mahindrakar (IIT Madras) has been chosen as one the 3 best student papers of the European Control Conference, 2022, to be held in London in July 2022. The final award will be made on July 13, 2022.
[15 Jun 22]: Talk by Prof. Satish Mulleti, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay was held as part of SysConTalks
[11 May 22]: Prof Ankur Kulkarni has been appointmented at a research advisor to Tata Consultancy Services. He will guide the development of ideas in the broad area of multiagent systems.
[20 Dec 21]: Prof. R. N. Banavar has been elevated to an Institute Chair Professor.
[06 Dec 21]: S Bhargav Pavan Kumar, PhD student at SysCon has received the PMRF for May 2021.
[03 Dec 21]: A lecture series on "Fundamentals of Brain-Inspired Robotics" by Prof. Hiroaki Wagatsuma from The University of Kitakyushu was held from 24th Nov to 02 Dec 2021 as part of SysConTalks
[08 Nov 21]: Prof. Ankur Kulkarni has being invited to join the Project Advisory Board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Click here for more details.
[03 Nov 21]: Prof. S Srikant is now a Senior Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
[06 Sept 21]: Talk by Bidesh Das from Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences on Time-optimal control of a two peakon collision was held as part of SysConTalks
[09 Aug 21]: Talk by Arnab Roy from the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences on Control and Stabilization Aspects of Fluid-structure Interaction Models was held as part of SysConTalks

News and Events of AY 2020 - 21

[27 Jul 21]: Talk by Prof. Lee DeVille from the Department of Mathematics, UIUC on Consensus on simplicial complexes was held as part of SysConTalks
[05 Jul 21]: Talk by Tobias Sutter from the EPFL, Switzerland on A General Framework for Optimal Data-Driven Optimization was held as part of SysConTalks
[15 Jun 21]: Talk by Suryanarayana Sankagiri from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on The robustness of blockchains to network delays was held as part of SysConTalks
[09 Jun 21]: Talk by Dr. Sebin Gracy, Post-Doctoral Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology on Networked Systems: Analysis and Mitigation Strategies for Epidemics, and Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
[31 May 21]: Talk by Anuj Vora, PhD student at SysCon on Information Extraction from a Strategic Sender was held as part of SysConTalks
[28 May 21]: Lecture Series on Sparsity Methods for Systems and Control was taken by Masaaki Nagahara, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan from 12th - 28th May 2021 as part of SysConTalks
[24 Mar 21]: Talk by Gugan Thoppe on Online Algorithms for Estimating Change Rates of Webpages was held as part of SysConTalks
[12 Nov 20]: Three of our students, Ashmita Roy, Siddhartha Ganguly, and Souvik Das have received the PMRF for May 2020.
[8 Jun 20]: Article by Dr. Karmvir Singh Phogat who worked with Prof. Ravi Banavar and Prof Debasish Chatterjee during his doctoral studies, is one of the three papers to receive the Automatica Paper Prize for the years 2018-2020.

News and Events of AY 2019 - 20

[28 Apr 20]: Prof. B. Bandyopadhyay delivers a Distinguished Lecture in Brazil. Click Here
[20 Feb 20]: Talk by Rahul Singh, postdoctoral researcher at the Ohio State University, USA, was held on 20th Feb 2020.
[30 Jan 20]: Interview of Prof. Ravi Banavar in the IEEE Control Systems Magazine is available here
[10 Jan 20]: Prof. B.Bandyopadhyay has been elected as Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) w.e.f 01-01-2020
[09 Jan 20]: Talk by Kunal Garg, student at the Department of Aerospace, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA was held on 8th Jan 2020.
[30 Dec 19]: Research Scholar Rihab Abdul Razak, student of Prof S Srikant has won the Best Student Paper award at the Sixth Indian Control Conference 2019 for their paper, "Estimating Scalar Fields with Mobile Sensor Networks".
[18 Dec 19]: Talk by Anuradha Annaswamy, Founder and Director, Active-adaptive Control Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA was held on 17th Dec 2019.
[11 Oct 19]: Research Scholar Pradyumna Paruchuri & Shubhangi Nema have received the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship, May 2019. For more information Click here
[17 Sept 19]: Prof. B. Bandyopadhyay's interview in the IEEE Control Systems Magazine is here
[16 Sept 19]: Dr. Shyam Kamal (presently Asst. Professor at IIT BHU), a former Ph.D. student of SysCon has been awarded INAE Young Engineer Award 2019.
[23 Aug 19]: Dr. Chakravarthini Saaj, a former Ph.D. student of SysCon has been appointed as Professor and Chair of Robotic Engineering at the University of Lincoln, UK.
[16 Aug 19]: Talk by Leonardo Colombo from Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT), Spain was held on 14th Aug 2019.
[01 Aug 19]: Talk by Amit Sanyal from Syracuse University, New York, USA was held on 31st July 2019.


News and Events of AY 2018 - 19

[01 Jul 19]: Talk by Mayank Baranwal from University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor was held on 28th June 2019.
[04 Apr 19]: Talk by Vaibhav Katewa from Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Riverside, USA was held on 03rd April 2019.
[19 Mar 19]: Talk by Joydeep Dutta from Department of Economic Sciences IIT Kanpur was held on 19th March 2019.
                    Slides are available here
[08 Mar 19]: Talk by Vineeth Varma from Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Nancy, France was held on 7th March 2019.
                    Slides are available here
[04 Mar 19]: D.H.S. Maithripala from University of Peradeniya (and SLTC), Sri Lanka, is visiting from March 4th to March 9th 2019.
[28 Feb 19]: Talk by Boris Lohmann from Institute of Automatic Control, TU Munich, Germany was held on 26th and 27th February 2019.
[29 Jan 19]: Talk by Anuradha Annaswamy from Active-adaptive Control Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA was held on 28th January 2019.
[18 Jan 19]: Workshop on "Current trends and Future directions in Control" was organised during 16-17 Jan 2019 to celebrate Institutes Diamond Jubilee. Details are here
[29 Nov 18]: IEEE Workshop on Innovations in Predictive Control, 2018 was hekd from 25th to 29th Nov 2018. Details are here
[08 Nov 18]: Talk by Yuri Orlov from CICESE Electronics & Communications, Ensenada, Mexico was held on 5th November 2018
                    Slides are available here
[08 Nov 18]: Talk by Gugan Thoppe from Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA was held on 5th November 2018.
[08 Oct 18]: Talk by Klaus Albert from TU Munich was held on 2nd November 2018.
[18 Oct 18]: Talk by Radhakant Padhi from Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bangalore was held on 18th October 2018.
[11 Oct 18]: Talk by Alexander Volfovsky from Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA was held on 10th October 2018.
[26 Sept 18]: India-Japan Joint Workshop on Signal Processing, Networks and Control, 2018 was hekd on 25th Sept 2018. Details are here
[06 Sept 18]: Prof Ankur Kulkarni received Excellence in Teaching Award for the year 2018
[29 Aug 18]: Talk by Ashish Cherukuri from ETH Zurich was held on 28th August 2018
                    Slides are available here
[16 Aug 18]: IEEE Workshop on Innovations in Predictive Control, 2018 is scheduled from 25 - 29 Nov 2018. Details are here
[26 Jul 18]: S.T. Jose and A. A. Kulkarni has won the Runner Up Best Paper Award in the Communications and Networks track for their paper titled "New finite blocklength converses for asymmetric multiple access channels via liner programming" at SPCOM 2018, held at IISc Banglore
[13 Jul 18]: Talk by Eduard Kirr from Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign was held on 11 July 2018
                  Slides are available here
[10 Jul 18]: Ashish Cherukuri from ETH Zurich is visiting during 28-29 August 2018.
[01 Jul 18]:  Masaaki Nagahara starts his sabbatical with SysCon
[25 Jun 18]: Eduard Kirr from Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be visiting from July 5th to July 18th. Prof. Kirr works primarily in the area of partial differential equations.

News and Events of AY 2017 - 18

[09 Mar 18]: Talk by Daniel Quevedo from Paderborn University, Germany was held on 09 Mar 2018.
                    Slides are available here
[05 Mar 18]: Antonio Loria, Directeur de recherche CNRS at L2S, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France visited from 17th March to 2nd March 2018.
[28 Feb 18]: Talk by Antonio Loria, Directeur de recherche CNRS at L2S, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France was held on 28 Feb 2018.
                    Slides are available here
[26 Feb 18]: GIAN Course on Topological Data Analysis by Yuliy Baryshnikov was held at IIT Bombay from 12 - 24 Feb 2018.
[12 Jan 18]: Talk by Prof. César Elizondo-González from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico was held on 11 Jan 2018
                    Slides are available here
[08 Jan 18]: Ph.D. student Mathew Abraham has won the Best student paper award at Indian Control Conference, held at IIT Kanpur
[04 Jan 18]: Talk by Meenakshi Chatterjee from Johnson & Johnson, USA was held on 03 Jan 2018.
                    Abstract is available here
[20 Dec 17]: Prof. Bijnan Bandyopadhyay is an IEEE Fellow for contribution to discrete-time, multi-rate and output feedback sliding mode control.
[09 Aug 17]: Talk by Shishir Kolathaya from Caltech, USA was held on 09th Aug 2017.
                    Slides are available here
[26 Jul 17]: Talk by Amit Sanyal from Syracuse University, USA was held on 26th July 2017.
                    Slides are available here

News and Events of AY 2016 - 17

[07 Apr 17]: Prabhat has received a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship; he'll spend the period Sep 2017 to Aug 2018 at EPFL, Switzerland.
[03 Apr 17]: Sharu Jose and Prof Ankur Kulkarni have received the best paper award among the submissions to the 23rd National Conference on Communications, NCC 2017 for " A Linear Programming Based Channel Coding Strong Converse for the BSC and BEC "
[08 Mar 17]: Talk by Daniel Quevedo from Paderborn University, Germany held on 08th Mar 2017.
                    Slides are available here

[01 Mar 17]: Talk by Masaaki Nagahara from The University of Kitakyushu, Japan held on 15th Feb and 01st Mar 2017.
                    Slides are available here

[04 Jan 17]: Talk by Francesco Bullo from Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara.
                    Slides are available here

[30 Nov 16]: IEEE Fall School on Sliding Mode Control (Sponsored by IEEE Control System Society) was held at IIT Bombay between 26th - 30th Oct 2016.
[26 Oct 16]: Talk by D H Sanjeeva Maithripala from Departement of Mechanical Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya in Sri Lanka held on 19, 20 and 26 October 2016.
[28 Sept 16]: Talk by Alejandro Jofre from CMM and DIM, Universidad de Chile.
[17 Aug 16]: Talk by Maruthi R. Akella, Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
                    Slides are available here

[13 Aug 16]: Former PhD student Atreyee Kundu received an "Excellence in Thesis" award from IIT Bombay for 2016.



News and Events of AY 2015 - 16

[20 May 16]: Talk by Dr Masaaki Nagahara from University of Kitakyushu was held on May 20, 2016. Title: Sparsity, discreteness and optimal control.
[25 Apr 16]: Talk by Prof. Navin Khaneja was held on April 25, 2016. Title: Control of Spin Systems.
[30 Mar 16]: Talk by Prof. Daniel Quevedo from Paderborn University, Germany was held on 30 March 2016
[09 Mar 16]: Prof. B.Bandyopadhyay has been appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics for a period of three years
[18 Feb 16]: Talk by Prof. Witold Respondek - Normandie Universite, INSA de Rouen, France was held from 15th Feb to 18th Feb 2016 under EECI International Graduate School on Control 2016
[12 Jan 16]: Talk by Sivaranjani Seetharaman from University of Notre Dame was held on January 12, 2016
[11 Jan 16]: Talk by Dr Pavan Tallapragada from Dept of Mechanical & Aerospace Engg University of California, San Diego was held on January 11, 2016
[11 Jan 16]: Talk by Tobias Sutter from Automatic Control Laboratory, Dept, ETH Zurich, Switzerland was held on January 11, 2016
[08 Jan 16]: Talk by Ashish Cherukuri from University of California, San Diego was held on January 08, 2016
[21 Dec 15]: Seminar by Prof. Daniel Liberzon from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was held on December 21, 2015
[17 Nov 15]: Prof. B. Bandyopadhyay received the best presentation recognition for his paper Control of Single-Stage Grid-Connected Three Phase Solar Photovoltaic System using Sliding Mode Control in the Flagship conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society - IEEE IECON 2015 held in Yokohama, Japan 9th -12th Nov. 2015.
[19 Oct 15]: Dr. Shimjith S. R. (an alumnus of Syscon, Ph.D. 2012) has received the prestigious 'Scientific and Technical Excellence Award of Department of Atomic Energy for the Year 2014'
[28 Sep 15]: Seminar by Dr. Bamdev Mishra was held on 30/09/2015 on Manopt: a Matlab toolbox for optimization on manifolds
[31 Aug 15]: Seminar by Dr. S.K. Chaudhuri, Ex Director, DRDO Lab (RCI, Hyderabad), was held on 2nd & 3rd Sept 2014
[07 Aug 15]: Dr. Shyam Kamal has received the excellence in Ph.D. award for his thesis *Sliding mode control for Fractional order System*. His thesis / monograph / TAC paper are the first to address the topic in control literature.
[06 Jul 15]: Dr. Ankur Kulkarni has been elected as an Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences
[25 May 15]: Prof B. Bandyopadhyay has been elected as the New Convener and taken the charge from Prof R. N. Banavar w.e.f. Monday, 25th May 2015


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