Professional Experience and Achievements
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
June 2023 - Present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
July 2020 - June 2023.
Post Doctoral Researcher at the Computer Engineering and Systems Group (CESG) , Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, Texas, USA.
January 2019 - January 2020.
Host: Prof. P. R. Kumar
Topics of research: Decentralized algorithms for optimal stochastic network control, Communication protocols for safety-guaranteed unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management systems, Cyber-security of stochastic dynamical systems
Ph.D. and M.S. (by Research) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
July 2012 - December 2018.
Advisors: Dr. Krishna Jagannathan and Dr. Gaurav Raina
Dissertation topic: Impact of drivers' reaction delays on the dynamical properties of vehicular platoons
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, P.E.S. Institute of Technology Bangalore South Campus (formerly P.E.S. School of Engineering), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
July 2011 - July 2012.
B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, Karnataka, India.
August 2007 - June 2011.
Advisor: Dr. Prashant K Wali
Project topic: Algorithm design and robotic implementation of a collision-avoiding path finder
Scholastic Achievements
Was awarded the "Best Performer" for 2007-2011 batch during Bachelor's (across all streams)
Received the "Teaching Assistance Recognition Award" at IIT Madras for the academic year 2017-2018 (nominated by Dr. Rachel)
Was among the top 10 at 2nd P.U.C. level (10+2) during the academic year 2006-2007
Professional Service
I am/have been the Registration Chair for the 2023 and 2024 editions of the Indian Control Conference (ICC).
A member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the
2023 edition of ICOAI, conducted in Paris, France
2021, 2022 and 2023 editions of COMSNETS, conducted annually in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2020, 2022 and 2024 editions of SPCOM, conducted biennially at IISc in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2019 and 2020 editions of the ITS Workshop conducted with the annual COMSNETS conference in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Contributed to the academic research at large by reviewing papers for several renowned conferences/journals including Physica A (Elsevier), Nonlinear Dynamics (Springer), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, IEEE CDC, IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, ITS Workshop, MobiHoc, Sigmetrics, WCNC, SPCOM, COMSNETS, ICC and NCC.
Was a student volunteer for JTG Summer Schools 2013 and 2014 conducted at IIT Madras, Chennai, India and a lead volunteer for WiOpt 2015 conference held in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.