People

Students

I’ve had the pleasure of working with the following students:

PhD students

Current

(in alphabetical order):

Ashwin Aravind, 2020—2024 (tentative).
- Joint supervisor Ashish Cherukuri.
- Area of study: Inverse reinforcement learning, robust optimization.
Souvik Das, 2019—2023 (tentative).
- Joint supervisor Federico Alessandro Ramponi.
- Area of study: Robust optimization, security in networked systems.
- PMRF awardee, May 2020.
Siddhartha Ganguly, 2019—2023 (tentative).
- Joint supervisor Ravi Banavar.
- Area of study: Constrained optimal control, numerical methods in control.
- PMRF awardee, May 2020.
Ashutosh Jindal, 2018—2023 (tentative).
- Joint supervisor Ravi Banavar.
- Area of study: Geometric methods in control.
Chintankumar Girishbhai Parmar, 2022—2025 (tentative).
- Area of study: Optimal transport and control.
Pradyumna Paruchuri, 2017—2023 (tentative).
- Joint supervisor Navin Khaneja.
- Areas of study: Robust optimization, optimal learning, optimal control, constrained control.
- PMRF awardee, May 2019.
Ashmita Roy, 2019—2025 (tentative).
- Joint supervisor Ravi Banavar.
- Area of study: High-precision control techniques.
- PMRF awardee, May 2020.

Graduated

(in alphabetical order):

Priyanka Dey, 2015—2021.
- Joint supervisor Niranjan Balachandran.
- Thesis topic: Analysis and Control of Linear Structured Systems: Complexity and Algorithms.
- Placement: Postdoc with Takayuki Ishizaki at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Shruti Kotpalliwar, 2016—2023.
- Joint supervisor Ravi Banavar.
- Area of study: Constrained optimal control.
- Placement: Postdoc with George Nikolakopoulos at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
Atreyee Kundu, 2012—2015.
- Thesis topic: Stabilizing switching signals for switched systems: analysis and synthesis.
- Placement: Postdoc with Maurice Heemels (TU/Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jamal Daafouz (University of Lorraine, France).
- Received an “Excellence in Thesis” award from IIT Bombay in 2016.
- Currently with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.
Prabhat Kumar Mishra, 2013—2019.
- Thesis topic: Stochastic predictive control over networks.
- Placement: Postdoc with Girish Chowdhary at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and postdoc with Richard Braatz, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
- Currently with the Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, IIT Kharagpur
Karmvir Singh Phogat, 2012—2018.
- Joint supervisor Ravi Banavar.
- Thesis topic: Discrete-time optimal control of variational integrators with state and control constraints.
- Placement: Postdoc with Dong Eui Chang (KAIST) and Koji Tsumura at the University of Tokyo.
- Currently with Ernst & Young Global Limited, Bengaluru.
- This article authored by Karmvir received an Automatica Paper Prize, 2020.
Mohammed Rayyan Sheriff, 2014—2020.
- Joint supervisor Vivek Borkar.
- Thesis topic: Linear inverse problems and dictionary learning.
- Areas of study: Learning theory, compressive sensing, applied probability.
- Placement: Postdoc with Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
- Received a Naik and Rastogi Award for “Excellence in PhD Research” from IIT Bombay in 2022.

MTech Dual Degree Students:

(in alphabetical order)

Mishal Assif PK, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2018—2019.
- Joint supervisor Ravi Banavar.
- Topic: Optimal control, robust optimization, geometric methods, frame theory.
- Next stop: PhD studies with Yuliy Baryshnikov at ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Anant Joshi, Systems & Control Engineering, 2019—2020.
- Joint supervisor Ravi Banavar.
- Topic: Robust optimal control, geometric methods.
- Next stop: PhD studies with Prashant Mehta at ME, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Yogesh Kumar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2018-2019.
- Joint supervisor Sukumar Srikant.
- Topic: Numerical optimal control under constraints.
- Next stop: Ideaforge.
Chinmay Maheshwari, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2018—2019.
- Joint supervisor Sukumar Srikant.
- Topic: Nonlinear control, optimal control.
- Next stop: PhD studies with Shankar Sastry at EECS, University of California Berkeley, USA.
Niket Nilesh Parikh, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2020—2022.
- Topic: Model predictive control under spectral constraints.
Pradyumna Paruchuri, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2016—2017.
- Topic: Optimal control under frequency constraints.
- Next stop: PhD studies with Navin Khaneja and me.
Mitalee Oza, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2021—2023.
- Topic: Robust optimization on geodesically convex spaces.

MTech Students:

(in alphabetical order)

Ashwin Aravind, Systems & Control Engineering, 2018—2020.
- Next stop: PhD studies with Ashish Cherukuri and me.
Aniket Mukherjee, Systems & Control Engineering, 2018—2020.
Anjali Muthyala, Systems & Control Engineering, 2021—2023.
- Topic: Approximation and motion planning via robust optimization.
- Next stop: Airbus.
Chintankumar Girishbhai Parmar, Systems & Control Engineering, 2020—2022.
- Topic: Discrete optimal transport.
- Next stop: PhD studies with me.
Arijit Sarkar, Systems & Control Engineering, 2017—2019.
- Next stop: PhD studies Jacquelien Scherpen and Bayu Jayawardhana.

BTech Students:

Nakul Rajesh Randad, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2021—2022.
- Joint supervisor Ravi Banavar.
- Topic: Quasi-interpolation driven trajectory optimization under constraints.
- One of the first contributors of QuITO.
- Next stop: Goldman-Sachs.
Rihan Aaron Dsilva, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2023—2024.
- Topic: Mesh-refinement for quasi-interpolation driven trajectory optimization under constraints.

Collaborators (and students)

(in alphabetical order)