Dr Pushkar Prakash Arya, Assistant Professor, EEE, NIT Patna.
Research interests: Reinforcement learning, formal verification and control, spatio-temporal specifications, cyber-physical systems, funnel-based control, data-driven control, robotics, multi-agent systems, robust/adaptive/optimal control, neural-network-based control, linear and non-linear control theory, applications of control in power electronics and power systems.
PhD students:
Shashi Ranjan Shekhar joined as PhD in July 2025
PG Students:
Anupam Raj Bhaskar. PG Project (2025-26): Dynamic motion planning using Risk-Aware LQR and MPC
Akshara Vustela. PG Project (2025-26): Stochastic MPC and its applications
Undergraduate students:
Sourav Hansda, Abhishek Uikey, Abhishek Kumar Gond. UG Minor Project (Jan-June 2026): "Development and open-loop control of the four McCnaum wheeled mobile robot"
Aryan Raj, Sudhanshu Kumar, Ratnesh Ranjan. UG Minor Project (Jan-June 2026): "Localisation of mobile robot using ArUco (Augmented Reality University of Cordoba) Marker"
Aditya Kumar, Praveen Kumar Sharma, Abhishek Kumar, Puneet Mishra. UG project: "Wireless power transfer"
Prashant Kumar, Siddharth Shukla, Aryan Ranjan. UG Project: "Q-learning and Deep Q-learning based control of dynamical systems"
Nishant Kumar, Satyam Kumar Karn, Ankit Prakash. UG Project: "Equivalent circuit modelling of a battery"
Interns
Ansh Raj (July-August 2025) worked on "Quadrotor UAV modelling and control"