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	Name	Shayok Mukhopadhyay
	E-mail	shayok@gmail.com, shayok@gatech.edu, shayok.mukhopadhyay@aggiemail.usu.edu
	Current occupation	Student, Ph.D., ECE, Systems & Controls, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Resume	(Click to download)

Short Bio:

I am currently enrolled as a full time Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at the ECE Department, Georgia Institute Of Technology, GA, USA.

I have completed my bachelor's degree (B.E. - Electrical Engineering) from the College of engineering Pune (C.O.E.P), University of Pune, ranking third in the university for the B.E. degree examinations (2006). C.O.E.P was established in 1854 and is ranked 14th in India among all other engineering colleges, and is ranked second in the Western region the 1st being IIT, Mumbai (statistics are from 2006). I have completed my M.Sc. degree in (Electrical Engineering) Control Systems from, Utah State University, Old main Hill, Logan, UT, USA.

Professional experience:

I have worked for a year (2006-2007) as an Associate Analyst with Deloitte Consulting (DTT) as a part of their US region 10 (Mumbai) office. Deloitte consulting is in FORTUNES list of 100 best companies to work for, for the ninth consecutive year (2008), and also Business Week names Deloitte as the best place to launch a career in 2008. As a technology integration practitioner, I have primarily worked on JAVA, J2EE, Vignette to name a few technologies.

Research:

Currently a graduate research assistant at the CERL (Control and Embedded Regulators Laboratory) at Georgia Tech.
My Current advisor is Dr. Fumin Zhang: Dr. Fumin Zhang's homepage.
Worked as a graduate research assistant in the Plasma Physics Lab and the CSOIS (Center for Self Organising and Intelligent Systems), at USU.
My masters thesis was primarily focused on fractional order control systems, with the major focus being the plasma position control for the USU Tokamak.
Useful links : What is a Tokamak? | My plasma position control slides
My other works include, application of fractional order proportional and integral (FOPI) controllers on the USU Smart Wheel, delay dynamics for the same and also a scheme of fractional order universal adaptive stabilization(FO-UAS). For details please refer to the publications below.
Useful links : The Smart Wheel (Previous Papers) | FO-UAS slide set
NOTE :: I have developed a set of slides for learning fractional calculus. Hopefully you will find them useful. Please find the links below. (Slides may have typos, please inform me if you find them)

Slide Set :: All chapters (.rar) | Chapter1.pdf | Chapter2.pdf | Chapter3.pdf | Chapter4.pdf | Chapter5.pdf | Chapter6.pdf | Chapter7.pdf | Chapter8.pdf | Chapter9.pdf
Previously convened the Applied Fractional Calculus (AFC) literature reading group's meeting on Fractional Order Calculus (FOC) : Web Link
My M.Sc. advisor at the ECE Dept., USU was Dr. YangQuan Chen : Dr. Chen's homepage | AFC pages
My B.E. degree project was a study on the optimal sizing and location of power capacitors on feeders (power lines) in order to minimize distribution losses, improve power factor, and thus reduce the need for installing additional power generating capacity. Our study showed that proper installation of power capacitors at optimal locations can result in monetary benefits to the power generating utility company with costs negligible to the profits, and a very small time for complete payback.

Publications:

Conferences:

Fractional Order PID control of ‘Tokamak’ plasma position, and fractional order system modeling, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, YangQuan Chen, Ajay Singh, Farrell Edwards, The Combined 48^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28^th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009. (PDF)
Purely Analog Fractional Order PID Control Using Discrete Fractional Capacitors (Fractors): Synthesis and Experiments, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Calvin Coopmans and YangQuan Chen, Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 30-September 2, 2009, San Diego, USA. (PDF)
Fractional Order Networked Control Systems and Random Delay Dynamics: A Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation Study, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Yiding Han and YangQuan Chen, 2009 American Control Conference ,St. Louis, Missouri, USA, June 10-12, 2009. (PDF)
Experimental Studies of a Fractional Order Universal Adaptive Stabilizer, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Yan Li and YangQuan Chen, 2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications October 12-15, 2008, Beijing, China - (PDF)
Random delay effect minimization on a hardware-in-the-loop networked control system using optimal fractional order PI controllers, Varsha Bhambhani, Yiding Han, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Ying Luo and YangQuan Chen, Third IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, FDA, Ankara, Turkey, November 2008 - (PDF)

Journals:

Robustness Analysis for Battery Supported Cyber-Physical Systems, F. Zhang, Z. Shi, S. Mukhopadhyay, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2011 (In Print) (arXiv).

Theses:

Fractional Order Modeling and Control: Development of Analog Strategies for Plasma Position Control of the Stor-1M Tokamak, Shayok Mukhopadhyay (DigitalCommons@USU).

Patents:

Battery Failure Detection Using Universal Adaptive Stabilization (Serial no. 61/567,903) - [Patent Pending]

Code developed:

Developed code for the Mittag - Leffler function which was used for obtaining the results for the FO-UAS paper (2008 IEEE/ASME - MESA) : Local Link | MATLAB Central

Other Achievements:

Project Lead - Gulf Oil Spill project (autonomous curve following and oil sampling using multiple vehicles), Summer 2011, Grand Isle, LA, USA
Part of GTSR's (Georgia Tech Savannah Robotics) autonomous surface vehicle team that secured 7^th place at AUVSI/ONR's 4^th international RoboBoat competition. Summer 2011, Virginia Beach, VA, USA.
'AwareNet' received the 'People's Choice Award' at the Microsoft Imagine Cup, US-finals, 2010. Washington DC, USA. Link
Project 'AwareNet' by a three person team (including me) called 'Coders Inc.' qualified to the Microsoft Imagine Cup, US-finals, 2010. Link 1 | Link 2
Awarded 1st place at the sumo robot competition held at USU, Spring 2009.
Awarded 3rd place at the sumo robot competition held at USU, Spring 2008 : Video 1 | Video 2 (The robot with the ramp in front is ours)
Watch the video of our cool fractional order controller working on a 'Fan and Plate system' : Video
The Mechatronics video channel: Link

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