The Speakers

Prof. Hasan K. Khalil

Hassan K. Khalil (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1973 and 1975, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, in 1978, all in electrical engineering.,Since 1978, he has been with Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI, USA, where he is currently a University Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering. He has consulted for General Motors and Delco Products, and authored or coauthored more than 100 papers on singular perturbation methods and nonlinear control. He is the author of High-Gain Observers in Nonlinear Feedback Control (SIAM 2017), Nonlinear Control (Pearson 2015), Nonlinear Systems (Macmillan 1992; Prentice-Hall 1996 and 2002), and co-author of Singular Perturbation Methods in Control: Analysis and Design (Academic Press 1986; SIAM 1999).,Dr. Khalil was the IFAC Fellow in 2007. He was the recipient of the 1989 IEEE-CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, the 2000 AACC Ragazzini Education Award, the 2002 IFAC Control Engineering Textbook Prize, the 2004 AACC O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the 2009 AGEP Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, and the 2015 IEEE-CSS Bode Lecture Prize, at MSU, the 1983 Teacher Scholar Award, the 1994 Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award, and the 1995 Distinguished Faculty Award. He was a University Distinguished Professor in 2003. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and Neural Networks, and as Editor for Automatica for Nonlinear Systems and Control. He was a Registration Chair of the 1984 CDC, Finance Chair of the 1987 ACC, Program Chair of the 1988 ACC, and General Chair of the 1994 ACC.

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Prof. Francesco Bullo

Francesco Bullo is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received the Laurea degree “summa cum laude” in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1999. From 1998 to 2004, he was an Assistant Professor with the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2004 he has been at University of California, Santa Barbara; he is currently affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, and the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation. Professor Bullo's research focuses on modeling, dynamics and control of multi-agent network systems, with applications to robotic coordination, power systems, distributed computing and social networks. Previous work includes contributions to geometric control, Lagrangian systems, vehicle routing, and motion planning. Professor Bullo has published more than 300+ papers in international journals, books, and refereed conferences. He is the coauthor, with Andrew D. Lewis, of the book “Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems” (Springer, 2004, 0-387-22195-6), with Jorge Cortés and Sonia Martínez, of the book “Distributed Control of Robotic Networks” (Princeton, 2009, 978-0-691-14195-4), with Stephen L. Smith of the book “Lectures on Robotics Planning and Kinematics” (SIAM, 2019, under contract); and of the book “Lectures on Network Systems” (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020, v1.4, 978-1986425643).

Professor Bullo is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM. He wass a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society for 2016-18. He received the 2018 Distinguished Scientist Award by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His articles received the 2008 CSM Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE CSS, the 2011 Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from AACC, the 2013 SIAG/CST Best Paper Prize from SIAM, the 2014 Automatica Best Paper Prize from IFAC, the 2016 Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award from IEEE CAS, and the 2016 TCNS Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE CSS. Professor Bullo served as advisor or co-advisor of 23 graduated PhD students. He received the 2015 UCSB Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award and the 2004 UIUC COE Outstanding Advisor Award. His students’ papers were finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2002, 2005, 2007), and the American Control Conference (2005, 2006, 2010).

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Prof. Simone Baldi

Simone Baldi is professor at the School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. He also holds with a guest researcher position at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, where he was assistant professor from 2014 to beginning of 2019. Prior to this he has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cyprus (Prof. Petros Ioannou's group), and at the Information Technologies Institute, Greece (I.T.I.-CE.R.T.H, Prof. Elias Kosmatopoulos's group). He got his Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from University of Florence, Italy, in 2011, under the supervision of Prof. Edoardo Mosca. His research interests focus on adaptive and switching control, to address networked control systems in the presence of large uncertainty. Within European and Dutch projects some of the algorithms by prof. Baldi have been implemented in intelligent traffic (in cooperation with Prof. Papageorgiou and the Traffic Control Department of the city of Chania, Greece) and energy efficient building (in cooperation with Honeywell, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, and Dutch Central Government Real Estate Agency) solutions.

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Prof. Ramon Vilanova

Prof. R. Vilanova is currently Head of the Dept. of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering and coordinator of the research group on Advanced Control Systems at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. He has published more than 50 papers in international indexed journal, being more than 20 published since 2011. Also since 2011 the number of received citations is >1.500. He is co-author/editor of three Springer books. Since 2011 he’s at the coordination of the Spanish Control Engineering Thematic group, being part of the Spanish Committee of Automatic Control. He’s main research interests are on the control and operation of wastewater treatment plants, topic where he has been awarded national research projects since 2010 and also on PID control in its different perspectives. He’s been PI of a number of national and European projects and also devoted a lot of effort on actions/projects with an educational perspective within the European Higher Education area (SOCRATES, TEMPUS, ERASMUS MUNDUS, etc.).

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Prof. Hanamoto Tsuyoshi

He is currently a Professor with Kyushu Institute of Technolgy's Faculty of engineering. He did his graduation from Kyushu Institute of Technolgy in 1984, post graduation in 1986 and Ph.D. in 1997 from Kyushu Institute of Technolgy. His area od research inloves power engineering, power conversion and electric machinery. He would be speaking on control system application on power electronics devices.

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Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi

Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi is working as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Goa. Prof. Subudhi received the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela (formerly REC Rourkela) in 1988, the Master of Technology degree in Control and Instrumentation from IIT Delhi in 1994 and PhD degree in Control System Engg. from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2002. He served as a Post- Doctoral Research Fellow in the NUS Singapore in 2005. Currently he serves as Professor, School of Electrical Sciences and Dean (Research & Development) in Indian Institute of Technology Goa. Prior to this, he was working as a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engg. in NIT Rourkela. He served as the Head of the Department, Electrical Engineering and Dean (Alumni Relation & Resource Generation); Chairman, Curriculum & Accreditation Committee; Head, Computer Centre at NIT Rourkela. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada and in Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Prof. Subudhi has been appointed as Distinguished Speaker by ACM for next three years (2020-2023). He was a recipient of the Prestigious Newton Fellowship of the Royal Academy of UK in the year 2015, and Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award of the Odisha Bigyan Academy, Govt. of Odisha for his contribution to science and technology in the year 2013. He was awarded NITRAA Research Excellence Award in Electrical Sciences in 2019. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for his distinguished contribution in Electrical Engineering. He is a Fellow of IET (UK), Institution of Engineers (India), Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (India) and senior Member, IEEE. He serves as a Technical Committee Member of the IEEE Intelligent Control Group. He serves as an Associate Editor, IEEE Access and IEEE Technology Conference Editorial Board. He collaborates with several foreign universities through international research grants. He has supervised 34 PhD students. He has published his research work in 130 reputed international journals and 70 conference papers. He has edited 3 books and contributed 13 book chapters. His research interests include Machine Learning and Adaptive Systems, Marine Robotics and Microgrid Systems.

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Prof. Arun K. Tangirala

Dr. Arun K. Tangirala is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras since 2004. His research interests span the fields of process control and monitoring, identification, applied signal processing and fuel cell systems. He has been teaching several full-term and short-term courses on process control, system identification, theory and applications of wavelet transforms, random processes and fuel cell systems.

Dr. Tangirala is the author of a comprehensive classroom text on System Idenification titled "Principles of System Identification: Theory and Practice", published by CRC Press.

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Prof. Manuel Mera

Manuel Mera received the master's degree and Ph.D degree in Automatic Control from the Department of Automatic Control of Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico, in 2009 and 2013, respectively.,From 2014 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Non-A team, Inria Lille Center, Lille, France. He currently a Researcher and Lecturer with the Section of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico. His main research interests include robust control based on Lyapunov methods, switched systems stability and observability, stability and stabilization for systems with constrained states and inputs, and control for nonholonomic systems.

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Prof. Utkal Mehta

Prof. Mehta is currently an Associate Professor and Programme Leader at Electrical and Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering & Physics, The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, FIJI. He is a Senior IEEE Member, Secretary IEEE Fiji Subsection and Student branch Counsellor. He has over 16 years’ experience in both academic/research in the various education institutes and industry. He received the B.Engg. degree from Gujarat University, India and M.Engg. degree from M S University Baroda, India and the Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-G), India, in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He also worked as the Project Engineer at R&D department at Compatible Power (P) Ltd in between 1999 to 2002. His current research focuses on system modelling, identification techniques in time and frequency domain, fractional control, data analysis and filtering techniques on high speed processors and various robotics applications for medical and industrial automation.

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Prof. Kazuto Takashima

He is with the Department of Biological Functions Engineering Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor. He did his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Kyoto University in 1997 / 3, 1999 / 3 respectively. Then he joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 1999/ 4 and stayed there till 2003 / 9. His career profile includes experience as Research Assistant, Technical Trainee, Research Fellow and Research Scientist at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Institute for human science and biomedical engineering), Japan Society for the promotion of science, Kyoto University and RIKEN prior to his present affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology. He received following honors and awards: 2005 / 5 Best Paper Award, CME2005, 2013 Smart Materials and Structures - Highlights of 2012, 2013/5/23 Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics (JRM) award, 2013/12/20 Excellent presentation award at SI 2013, 2014/12/17 Excellent presentation award at SI 2014.

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Dr. M. Shamsuzzoha

Dr. Shamsuzzoha works as a Senior Engineer Process (Simulation) at ADNOC Refining Abu Dhabi, UAE. He holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering with specialization in process design and control. Recently he finished MBA in Entrepreneurship & Leadership. He has wide range of work experience, industry, academic and research in Oil & Gas industries. He has more than 6 years of working experience in industry.

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Prof. Shovan Bhoumik

Dr Shovan Bhaumik was born in Kolkata, India, in 1978. He received the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1999 from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India, the B.Tech degree in Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering in 2002, the Master of Control System Engineering degree in 2004, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009, all from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

He is currently Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. From May 2007 to June 2009, he was a Research Engineer, at GE Global Research, John F Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore, India. From July 2009 to March 2017, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Patna.

Shovan Bhaumik’s research interests include nonlinear estimation, statistical signal processing, aerospace and underwater target tracking, networked control systems. He has published more than 20 papers in refereed international journals. He is a holder of Young Faculty Research Fellowship (YFRF) award from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, MeitY, Government of India.

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Prof. Sandip Ghosh

Prof.. Ghosh is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical engineering, IIT BHU Varanasi. His research focus is on developing controller design algorithms, mostly in LMI framework with strong intention of bringing such control design methods to applications, he work also on wide-area control of power systems and structured control design for electrical machine drives, mostly in modern control framework. His group has been working on developing LMI based output feedback controller design (a classical problem in control theory) for past few years. They are looking ahead to develop new algorithms for LPV systems in coming years with applications to wind-energy systems. They are also working to extend our knowledge-base to multi-agent systems.

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Dr. Rames Chandra Panda

Dr. Panda is Sr. Principal Scientist and Professor - AcSIR, Chemical Engineering at CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India. He did his Ph.D. from IIT Madras, Chennai in 1994 in the speacialization of Process Control, M. Tech. in 1989 with specialization Process Control and Instrumentation and B.E. in 1987 from Jadavpur University Calcutta. His research interest involves autotuning of PID controllers, Relay feedback, Model based controllers, Intelligent control, Artificial Neural Network, Multi variable control, Semi automation of Tannery wet operations.

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Prof. Shubhendu Bhasin

Prof. Bhasin is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. He is a part of the Control and Automation group, and work in the area of nonlinear control and applications. Prior to joining IITD, he did his MS and PhD from the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he was part of the Nonlinear Controls and Robotics Lab. His current research Interests are Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Learning-based Control (Reinforcement Learning), Data-driven control, Robotics.

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Prof. Soumya Ranjan Sahoo

He completed by B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla, Odisha in the year 2008. Thereafter, He joined Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India where he completed my M.Tech+Ph.D Dual degree programme in 2013. He worked as a Scientist Fellow, in CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India till June 2014. He joined Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in June 2014. Currently, He is an Associate Professor with Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests involves Nonlinear systems, Control of Unmanned autonomous vehicles, Coordinated control, Application of coordinated control to unmanned vehicles, power systems, Discontinuous systems.

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Prof. Sheshagiri Rao

Prof. Rao is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. Prior to this He was an Assistant professor at NIT Trichy. His education involves a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 2007, M.Tech. - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003 and a B.Tech. - Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad in 2000. His research experience involves Visiting researcher to Process Dynamics and Operations Group (Prof. Engell Sebastian), Technical University of Dortmund, Germany in 2019, Visiting researcher to School of Chemical Engineering (Prof. Zoltan K. Nagy), Purdue University, USA, 2017, Visiting researcher to BIOMATH Department (Prof. Ingmar Nopens), Ghent University, Belgium, 2013, Visiting researcher to Environmental Systems Engineering and Management Group (Prof. ChangKyoo Yoo), Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 2009, Visiting researcher to Systems and Control Group (Prof. Joerg Raisch), Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany, 2007.

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Prof. Manas Bera

Dr. Manas Kumar Bera was born in Lakshya, West Bengal. He completed his schooling from St. Xavier's School, Haldia in 1999. He received his B. E in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from University of Burdwan in 2003, M.E. degree in Control System Engineering from the department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University in 2006, and obtained Ph.D. degree from IDP in Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai in 2015.

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Prof. Shyam Kamal

Prof. Kamal received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya Haridwar, Uttrakhand, India in 2009, and Ph.D. in Systems and Control Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India in 2014. From 2015 to 2016, he was with the Department of Systems Design and Informatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan as a Project Assistant Professor. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering., Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He has published one monograph, two book chapters and 66 journal articles and conference papers. His research interests include the areas of nonlinear control and its applications. Particularly he is working on fractional-order systems, contraction analysis, discrete and continuous higher-order sliding mode control and multi-agent systems. He has received excellence awards in Ph.D. thesis from IIT Bombay in 2015 for his thesis “Sliding Mode Control of Fractional-order Systems” and INAE Young Engineer Award in 2019 for his research work. He is now an INAE Young Associate. He has also received honorary appointment as a Visiting professor from RMIT Melbourne Australia in July 2017 and in the duration of November and December 2019 and Visiting Professor from Harbin Institute on Technology China in August 2019.

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Prof. Neeli Satyanarayana

Dr. Satyanarayana Neeli obtained his B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and M.E. with specialization in Control Systems, from JNTU Hyderabad, and Andhra University Visakhapatnam respectively. He obtained PhD for his thesis in the field of System and Control Engineering in Electrical Engineering, from IIT Delhi, New Delhi. He has been actively involved in teaching and research in the field of System and Control Engineering which is his core research specialization at Masters and PhD level. He taught several courses in system and Control Engineering at UG and PG level, and his current research areas are, Estimation and control of unknown input systems, Nonlinear systems, Stability of time-delay systems, Predictive control, and Applications of control theory in fields of power electronics and power systems. He published articles in various journals and conferences in international and national repute. He was recipient of Early Research Award (ECR) from SERB DST, Govt. of India and successfully executed several funded research projects. Four PhD scholars are currently working with him for their PhD thesis and one scholar successfully defended his PhD thesis. He had supervised several dissertations at master’s and projects at bachelor’s levels. He also organized several workshops for the benefit of faculty and students working in the field of system engineering and also delivered expert lectures. He is a member of IEEE and IEEE Control System society and IFAC.

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