Brief CV of Dr Pushkar 

Educational Qualifications

Post doctorate (Nov 2022- March 2024))

• Postdoc at FOCAS LAB, in the Dept of Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBC-CPS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.

  • Research interest: Cyber-physical systems, formal methods, reinforcement learning, and nonlinear control.

  • Mentor: Dr. Pushpak Jagtap

  • FOCAS Lab Link: https://www.focaslab.com/home

Doctorate (2015-2021)

• Ph.D. in Control Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India.

  • Thesis title: Advanced Internal Model Controllers for Time-Delayed Processes

  • Ph.D. supervisor: Dr. Sohom Chakrabarty

Master's degree (2013-2015)

• MTech. in Control and Industrial Automation in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), India, Silchar during 2013-15.

  • Thesis title: Design of Controllers of FO-PID Family for Integer Order (IO) as well as FO Plants

  • MTech. project supervisor: Dr. Prashanta Roy

Graduation (2008-2012)

• B.E. in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.

  • Link: https://www.dsce.edu.in/ 

Teaching Experience

August 2024 onwards: Assistant Professor, Dept. of EE, National Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, Bihar, India.

April 2024 to July 2024:  Assistant Professor, Dept. of EEE, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

• Student supervised: Mr. Akshat Saraswat worked as a summer intern at NIT Trichy under my supervision on the topic "natural language processing using deep learning techniques on social media datasets such as Facebook and Reddit to identify underlying patterns and insights of human behavior and emotions." One conference work with his work is accepted. 

Nov 2021 to Nov 2022:  Assistant Professor, Dept. of EEE, Siddaganga Institute of Technology Tumkur, Tumkur, Karnataka, India.

Teaching Engagements:

• Modeling and Control of Power Electrotonic Systems, PG 1st year, winter session 2021-22

• Control System Design UG 4th year Winter Session 2021-22

• Electrical Power Utilization UG 3rd year Summer Session 2021-22

• Basic Electrical Engineering UG 1st year Summer Session 2021-22

August 2020 to Oct 2021: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, G H Raisoni College of Engineering and Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Teaching Engagements:

• Control System-I (Classical Control Theory) UG 3rd year

• Control System-II (Digital Control Systems and Modern Control Theory) UG 4th year

• Electrical Circuit Analysis UG 2nd year

• Basic Electrical Machines UG 2nd year

Awards/recognitions

• Received National Postdoctoral Fellowship from SERB (NPDF-SERB) for two years 2024-2026. However, deferred to join NIT Trichy.

• Received IEEE Control Systems Society Student Travel Support Program of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2020 which was held at Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.

• July 2015-June 2020: Doctoral fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India.  

• August 2013-May 2015: Post Graduate fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India.

Invited talks

• "Preparation of PPT by using LaTeX" for Research Oriented Technical Writing (ROTW-2024)" from 18th – 22nd November 2024, organized by the Dept of Electrical Engineering, NIT Jamshedpur. 

• "Robust modified partial internal model control design" for one week STC on “Recent Industrial Trends in Control and Optimization (RICO-2024)” on 7th June 2024.

• "Robust modified partial internal model control for stable, unstable and integrating processes" for one week FDP program on “Sustainable Power Generation and Advanced Electrical Systems: New Horizons” on 5th June 2024.

• “Internal Model Control Design and its Application to Load Frequency Control Problem” for FDP program on AI Applications in Power Systems during 17-22 Jan 2022 by the Dept of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka, India. 

• “Adaptive Internal Model Control Design for Load Frequency Control Problem” for FDP program on AI Applications in Power Systems during 17-22 Jan 2022 by the Dept of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka, India.

Reviewer

Journals: IEEE Transactions on Cybernatics; Automatica, ISA Transactions; IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology; IEEE Control Systems Letters; IET Power Electronics; Journal of Franklin Institute; International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control; International Journal of Control; Asian Journal of Control; International Journal of Systems Science; Transactions on Institute of Measurement and Control

Conferences: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC); American Control Conference (ACC); IFAC conference; IEEE conferences such as CODIT, etc.