Updates

Sep 2023: We are awarded third prize in the Learning to Run a Power Network (L2RPN) Delft 2023 competition.

Apr 2023: Invited talk on Robust planning and control of power networks at the AI Impact Workshop, IIT Bombay.

Apr 2023: Our paper A scalable optimization framework for refinery operation and management is accepted in the Computers & Chemical Engineering.

Mar 2023: Invited talk on Dynamical Systems Perspective of Optimization at the Mechanics and Control Workshop, IIT Bombay.

Mar 2023: Our paper Accelerating Distributed Optimization via Fixed-Time Convergent Flows is accepted in IFAC World Congress, 2023.

Mar 2023: PowRL has been awarded the Gold Prize under the Best Smart Technology - Transmission category by the Indian Smart Grid Forum (ISGF).

Jan 2023: I was interviewed by IndiaAI to share my perspectives on co-existence of industrial and academic research. [Read Here]

Jan 2023: I have been promoted to Senior Scientist at TCS Research.

Jan 2023: Our work on Fixed-Time Optimization is among the three most impressive AI papers of the year on IndiaAI. [Link]

Nov 2022: Our paper PowRL: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Robust Management of Power Networks is accepted in AAAI, 2023.

Nov 2022: Recipient of the Young Scientist Award at TCS Anvetion (annual research showcase).

Oct 2022: Our paper Fixed-Time Stable Proximal Dynamical System for Solving MVIPs is accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC).

Sep 2022: Two papers are accepted to the Eighth Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2022.

Sep 2022: Our paper Struct2Graph: A graph attention network for structure based predictions of protein-protein interactions is accepted in the BMC Bioinformatics.

Sep 2022: I am hosting a six-week long workshop on Deep Learning Theory and Applications. [Link].

Aug 2022: The Next Byte Podcast discusses our work on machine learning for microbial analysis. [Link].

Jul 2022: Our workshop paper "A Learning Based Framework for Handling Uncertain Lead Times in Multi-Product Inventory Management" is accepted in EWRL, 2022.

Jul 2022: Our work on microbial function and dynamics prediction has been covered by several media outlets [Link].

Jun 2022: Our paper A unified Maximum Entropy Principle approach for a large class of routing problems is accepted in Computers & Industrial Engineering.

Jun 2022: I have accepted a guest faculty position at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai.

Jun 2022: Our workshop paper "Accelerated Methods for Distributed Optimization Problems using Fixed-time Stability of Continuous-time Dynamical Systems" is accepted in ICML, 2022.

May 2022: Our paper Recurrent Neural Networks Enable Design of Multifunctional Synthetic Human Gut Microbiome Dynamics is accepted in eLife.

May 2022: I am on the Department Advisory Board (DAB) for the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning program at the Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru.

May 2022: I am on the organizing committee for the 8th Indian Control Conference (ICC-8) to be held from 14-16 Dec, 2022 at IIT Madras.

Mar 2022: Invited talk at the Signal and Learning Seminar in the Institute of Mathematics of Marseille.

Feb 2022: Our paper Optimal Schedule Generation for Single-Channel Crude Transfer Using a Multi-Model Approach is accepted in the Computers & Chemical Engineering.

Dec 2021: Our paper Breaking the Convergence Barrier: Optimization via Fixed-Time Convergent Flows is accepted in AAAI, 2022.

Nov 2021: Our paper Fundamental Limits of Deep Graph Convolutional Networks for Graph Classification is accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Sep 2021: Our paper CGAT: Cell Graph ATtention Network for Grading of Pancreatic Disease Histology Images is accepted in the Frontiers in Immunology, section Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy.

Aug 2021: Our paper Revisiting State Augmentation methods for Reinforcement Learning with Stochastic Delays is accepted in CIKM, 2021.

May 2021: Our paper Scalable Multi-Product Inventory Control with Lead Time Constraints using Reinforcement Learning is accepted in the Neural Computing and Applications.

Jan 2021: I have joined the Systems & Control group at IIT-Bombay as an Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Nov 2020: I am happily involved in a permanent two-body problem.

Oct 2020: Invited talk at the CSS in IIT-Kharagpur.

Sep 2020: Our paper CAPPA: Continuous-Time Accelerated Proximal Point Algorithm for Sparse Recovery is accepted in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

Aug 2020: Our paper Robust Distributed Fixed-Time Economic Dispatch under Time-Varying Topology is accepted in the IEEE Control Systems Letters.

Jul 2020: Our paper A Fixed-Time Convergent Distributed Algorithm for Strongly Convex Function in a Time-Varying Network is accepted in CDC, 2020.

Jul 2020: I have joined TCS Research as a Scientist with the Data & Decision Sciences.

Jun 2020: I am back to my roots - from the land of the Great Lakes to the land of great diversities.

Jan 2020: Talk on Fixed-Time Optimization and Control at IIT-Kanpur.

Dec 2019: Invited talk on the role of AI in Bioinformatics at the IISA, 2019.

Dec 2019: Our paper A deep learning architecture for metabolic pathway prediction is accepted in the Bioinformatics.

Dec 2019: Talk on Fixed-Time Optimization and Control at IISc.