Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Sampling-based offline motion planning
Online reactive motion planning
Application-specific Guidance
Path-following, all-aspect approach, UAV landing, formation control
Intelligent control for aerospace applications
Source localization
Spacecraft applications
Soft landing, close-range rendezvous
U.S. National Academies post-doctoral award – National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship since August 2015.
IISc Junior and Senior Research Associateship award in August 2014 and March 2015.
Israeli Government scholarship for international summer-school at Technion, Israel in 2013.
Gold Medal for being top scorer of the 2009 batch of M.Tech. in QROR of Indian Statistical Institute.
KVPY Summer Camp Invitee in 2003.
Member of IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Society.
Organizing committee member for IEEE ICCA 2018 and IFAC ACA 2022.
Editorial board member (Associate Editor) for IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022.
Reviewer Panel - IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Proceedings of Institution of Mechanical Engineers – Part G, Asian Journal of Control, Elsevier Chinese Journal Aeronautics, Elsevier Defence Technology, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, IEEE Conference on Decision Control (CDC), IFAC Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, AIAA Region VI Student Conference.
Session Chair in several international conferences (IEEE CDC, IEEE ICCA, ICC, IFAC ACODS, etc.).
Guidance against Higher Speed Targets and Maneuvering Targets, TCS Innovation Lab, Kolkata, November 2018
Guidance of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles, DRDL, Hyderabad, India, November 2018
Basics and Applications of Guidance in Aerospace, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, March 2018
Guidance in UxV Systems, ST Engineering - Marine Division, Singapore, October 2017
PN-Gain-Varied Trajectory-Shaping Guidance for UxV Missions, Department Symposium at the Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, USA, July 2017
On the Development of Airborne Sense and React Capability, CRUSER Brief (with co-speaker Prof. Oleg A. Yakimenko during the visit of Dr. Frank Herr, the head of ONR’s Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department at NPS), Naval Postgraduate School, USA, February 2017
Towards a Benchmark for Autonomous Aerial Pursuit-Evasion Engagements, Department Symposium at the Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, USA, June 2016
Proportional Navigation-based Guidance Laws – Basics and Applications in Different Domains, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA, June 2016
Analysis of PN Class of Guidance Laws, Winterschool organized by School of Systems and Control, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, January 2012
Fault Level Computation in a Power Plant and Selection of Current Transformers, Siemens Ltd., Kolkata, India, July 2007