2014 - 2023:
Served at various levels at the American University of Sharjah. Working on robotics, autonomous systems, energy systems, batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells. Please find my research work on Google Scholar.
2009 - 2014:
From 2009 to 2014 I was a graduate research assistant (full time Ph.D. student) at the control and embedded regulators lab (CERL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My adviser here was Dr. Fumin Zhang. My work here started out with a focus on understanding the dynamics of Li-ion batteries and researching models that were useful from a control perspective. My work on this topic has led to the identification of stability limits for Li-ion batteries. It appears that when the state of charge (SOC) or the life of a battery (if you may) falls below certain limits, then the terminal voltage of a battery collapses. Although it is hard to imagine a non-motile system such as a battery becoming unstable, it appears that when the terminal voltage drops suddenly at the end of the life of a battery, it is actually experiencing a loss of stability (in the control sense). More information about this can be found in a paper published in the ACM transactions on embedded computing, on my publications page.
I was also actively involved with GTSR and have led a team carrying out an autonomous survey in Grand Isle, LA with GTSR built vehicles. The focus of my thesis work also encompassed performance analysis of nonlinear systems. Efforts in this direction have led to an algorithm for computing invariant sets for a certain type of systems.
2007 - 2009:
I was at the Utah State University (USU) working on my masters degree in the ECE department. The focus of my thesis in USU was fractional order modeling and control of systems. My adviser here was Dr. YangQuan Chen. I was a convener of the applied fractional calculus (AFC) reading group while at USU. More details about the center for self organizing and intelligent systems (CSOIS) can be found here. My work at CSOIS also included studying delay dynamics and compensating for the effects of random delays. This work was tested on the CSOIS SmartWheel.
I also worked at the plasma physics laboratory (PPL) in the USU physics department as my thesis was related to controlling plasma position. My role here included maintaining the electronic circuitry powering the reactor, changing them if needed and also running tests related to control and system identification. Click (here) for more details.
2006 - 2007:
I was employed by Deloitte Consulting in Mumbai, India as an associate analyst for a year. Here I received extensive training to handle computer programming tasks in a variety of languages. Some more information about the work I did can be found here.
2002 - 2006:
These were my formative years at my undergraduate institution, the College of Engineering, Pune, India. As an undergraduate student in electrical engineering I had the opportunity to study the power grid for a part of the city of Pune. The motivation for this work was finding the optimal location for capacitors on power lines in order to reduce losses. This work served as my project for the B.E. degree. Other small projects that attracted my attention in my undergraduate years were based on DNA computing and artificial intelligence.