Ankur A. Kulkarni
Professor and Kelkar Family Chair
Centre for Systems and Control, Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science, IIT Bombay Trust Lab, QUICST
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Students
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Ph.D.

Manish Kumar Singh (Systems and Control Engineering)
Joined: Jan 2021

Siddhant Vibhute (Systems and Control Engineering)
Co-advised with Anupama Kowli (Electrical Engineering)
Joined: Jan 2019

Reema Deori (Systems and Control Engineering)
Joined: Jan 2020

Apurva Dhingra (Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science)
Joined: Aug 2022
Alumni
Ayush Gopal
Dual degree in Machine Intelligence and Data Science
Presently: Apollo Global Management
Mukesh Kumar
Dual degree in Systems and Control Engineering
Presently: Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech.
Sagar Yadav
Dual degree in Digital Health
Presently: Founder's office at Aurum Proptech.
Atharva Bhide (IISER Pune)
Presently: Barclays Bank
Sachin Teli (Engineering Physics)
Dual Degree in Engineering Physics
Presently: Ph.D. student at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Drishti Baruah (Engineering Physics)
Dual Degree in Engineering Physics
Presently: Ph.D. student at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Shraddha Pathak (IISER Pune)
Presently: Ph.D. student at Penn State University
Dr. Anuj Vora, Ph.D. Systems and Control Engineering
Topic: Information theory
June 2016-June 2022
Presently: TU Delft
Shashank Deshpande (Engineering Physics)
Dual Degree in Systems and Control Engineering
Presently: Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Naman Aggarwal, Dual Degree Systems and Control Engineering
Topic: Decentralized control and auctions
June 2020-2021
Presently: Ph.D. student at LIDS, MIT.
Dr. Vivek Deulkar (Electrical Engineering), co-supervised with Jayakrishnan Nair
Topic: Battery sizing for smart grids
Ph.D. awarded 2021
Presently: Faculty at Plaksha University
Dr Dharini Hingu (post-doc; Ph.D. in Mathematics, IIT Madras)
Topic: Dynamic games
Joined: July 2018
Presently: Faculty at UICT, Mumbai
Varad Patil (M.Tech. Systems and Control Engineering)
Topic: Parking problems for Smart Cities
Joined: June 2018
Anurag Gupta (M.Tech. Systems and Control Engineering; B.Tech. Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay)
Topic: Information theory
Joined: June 2019
Dr. Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. Systems and Control Engg
Topic: Dynamic games, power systems
July 2013 -- Mar 2019
Presently: Faculty at TKM College of Engineering Kollam
Best paper award at the Indian Control Conference, 2018
Dr. Sharu Theresa Jose, Ph.D. Systems and Control Engg
Topic: Information theory
July 2013 -- Aug 2018
Presently: Faculty at University of Birmingham, UK
Excellence in Ph.D. Research award at IIT Bombay
Best paper award at the National Conference on Communications, 2017
Best paper award (runner-up) at the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), 2018
Karan Chadha (Electrical Engineering, Dual Degree)
Topic: Games on graphs, Smart grids
Duration: May 2018-2019
Presently: Pursuing Ph.D. at Stanford University
Harivardhan Geddada (M.Tech. Systems and Control Engineering)
Duration: June 2018-2019
Mansi Sood (Electrical Engineering, Dual Degree, IIT Bombay)
Dual Degree Project co-supervised with Sharayu Moharir
Topic: Game theory in crowd sourcing
Duration: July 2017 - 2018
Presently: Pursuing Ph.D. at CMU
Parthe Pandit (Electrical Engineering, Dual Degree, IIT Bombay; research assistant)
Topic: Games on graphs
Duration: July 2015 - August 2016
Presently: Faculty at IIT Bombay
Bharat Prabhakar (Electrical Engineering, Dual Degree project)
Duration: 2013-2014
Presently: Founder of aarzo.co
Sanath Kuppa (Electrical Engineering, B.Tech. project)
Duration: 2013-2014
Presently: Goldman Sachs
Sree Prasanna Rajagopal (B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering IIT Guwahati, Research Assistant)
Duration: July 2014 - June 2015
Presently: Tonbo Imaging, Bangalore
Smita Solanki (M.Tech., Systems and Control)
Duration: July 2016 - July 2017
Presently: MediaTek Taiwan
Jabin Sadique (M.Tech., Systems and Control)
Duration: July 2013 - October 2014
Presently: Mercedes-Benz R&D, Bangalore
Aparna Mohankumar (M.Tech., Systems and Control)
Duration: January 2015 - January 2016
Moments
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