News and activities:  

• [May 6, 2026] New manuscript: Globally Solving Unbalanced Optimal Transport and Density Control For Gaussian Distributions. 

• [April 22, 2026] My article Robust maximum hands-off control: existence, measure-valued robust Pontryagin maximum principle, and equivalence was (provisionally) accepted in Automatica. 

• [April 22, 2026] New manuscript: Covariance Steering of Discrete-Time Markov Jump Linear Systems with Multiplicative Noise.

• [April 20, 2026] Our article Unbalanced Density Control for Discrete-Time Linear Systems was accepted for the MTNS26. 

• [April 15, 2026] New manuscript: Nonlinear Stochastic Optimal Control and Optimal Stopping using the Fokker-Planck Transformation.

• [April 07, 2026] Our article Sparse robust optimal control: theory and numerics was accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 

• [March 17, 2026] New manuscript: OT-DETECT: An optimal transport-driven technique for attack detection in cyber-physical systems

Fun fact: I don’t talk about reviews because once I start, it could go on for days. For instance, I could say quite a bit about the deliberate and targeted garbage thrown at us for these articles: (doi), (doi). But let me exercise restraint. 

Anyway, for this paper, we received an impressively fast batch of what appears to be AI-generated, human-assisted nonsense masquerading as reviews. At this rate, the CPS community seems well on its way to becoming the next MPC community: remarkably efficient at dismissing anything genuinely new. Special thanks, of course, to the so-called esteemed reviewers and the ever-so-insightful AE whose collective brilliance ensured that originality was dealt with swiftly and decisively — without their confusion, I might never have fully appreciated how badly this paper needs a better home. Apparently, originality remains an acquired taste. No matter; with stronger theoretical and numerical results, it should land where it belongs.

• [Feb 17, 2026] Submitted to MTNS26: Optimal density control with unbalanced marginals, with Haruto Nakashima and Kenji Kashima. 

• Feb, 2026: Moved to Atlanta and excited to join the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology for another postdoctoral position with Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras. I look forward to working on a new set of topics at the intersection of control, optimal transport, and generative AI.

• Dec 2025: I recently completed my postdoctoral research at Kyoto University. Overall, it was an extremely positive experience, marked by a peaceful life in Japan for over a year and a couple of months. I was fortunate to join an excellent lab with supportive colleagues and a highly understanding advisor. My work focused on the areas of (a) optimal transport and PDE-constrained optimal control, (b) learning and control, and (c) sparse optimization and control. Some publications:

1. S. Ganguly, K. Kashima, Robust maximum hands-off control: existence, robust Pontryagin maximum principle, and equivalence, under review in Automatica.

2. V. Upadhyay, S. Ganguly, K. Kashima, D. Chatterjee, Minmax density transportation for parabolic PDEs: a direct optimal control perspective, under review in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

3. S. Ganguly, A. Aravind, S. Das, M. Nagahara, D. Chatterjee, Sparse robust optimal control: theory and numerics, under review in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

4. H. Nakashima, S. Ganguly, K. Kashima, Data-driven Gromov-Wasserstein density steering, IEEE CDC 2025. 

5. H. Nakashima, S. Ganguly, K. Morimoto, K. Kashima, Formation shape control using the Gromov-Wasserstein metric, Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) conference, 2025.

6. H. Nakashima, S. Ganguly, K. Kashima, Optimal density control with unbalanced marginals, submitted to MTNS26.

Some works in preparation are: 

1. S. Ganguly, Constructing measure-valued splines on Wasserstein space: a controlled optimal transport perspective 

2. H. Nakashima, S. Ganguly, K. Kashima, Unbalanced optimal transport and control of densities: theory and computations

3. S. Das, S. Ganguly, An optimal transport-driven technique for anomaly detection in cyber-physical controlled systems 

4. S. Ganguly,  H. Nakashima, K. Kashima, Constrained shape-aware formation control: an optimal transport perspective.

• Nov 2025: Our patent (with R.A. D'Silva and D. Chatterjee), System and method of automatically generating optimal control trajectory for driving a multi-agent auv system, with Rihan Aaron D'Silva, and Debasish Chatterjee, has been granted as an Indian Patent, with Patent number 572126 and Application number 2024210060700. 

• Our article, titled: QuITO v.2: Numerical Solutions with Uniform Error Guarantees to Optimal Control Problems under Path Constraints, with R.A. D'Silva and D. Chatterjee, was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Long version and software: arXiv version, Software information page, GitHub Repo. 

• Our article, titled: Data-driven Gromov-Wasserstein density steering, with Haruto Nakashima and Kenji Kashima was accepted to the CDC 2025, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

• Our article, titled: Formation Shape Control using the Gromov-Wasserstein Metric, with Haruto Nakashima, Kohei Morimoto and Kenji Kashima, was accepted to the Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) 2025, arXiv version. 

• Submitted an article titled: Approximation-aware constrained feedback policy learning via neural networks and KANs: a detailed case study of predictive control, with Gakul Rajaraman, Vipul Mishra, Ashwin Aravind, and Debasish Chatterjee.

• Our article, titled: Explicit Feedback Synthesis Driven by Quasi-Interpolation for Nonlinear Robust Model Predictive Control, with Debasish Chatterjee, was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (IEEE TACON). 

• Our article, titled Exact solutions to minmax optimal control problems for constrained linear systems, with Debasish Chatterjee, was accepted to the IEEE Control Systems Letters (IEEE LCSS). 

• Our article, titled Discrete-time Pontryagin maximum principle under rate constraints: necessary conditions for optimality, with Souvik Das, Debasish Chatterjee, and Ravi Banavar, was accepted by the Asian Journal of Control. 

• Our article, titled Data-driven distributionally robust MPC via semi-infinite semidefinite programming: an application to finance, with Souvik Das, Ashwin Aravind, and Debasish Chatterjee, was accepted to the MTNS (mathematical theory of networks and systems); Souvik presented it at Cambridge, UK in August, 2024. 

• Version 2 of QuITO --- QuITO v.2 is now out; see the Software information page and the GitHub Repo. It is more optimized, and faster, solves a wide range of problems (especially singular optimal control problems), and comes with an automatic change point localization and mesh refinement module and a GuI. Give it a try! The associated article that documents the theoretical developments can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13681v3.

• Presented our article Towards continuous-time MPC: a novel trajectory optimization algorithm (With Souvik Das, Debasish Chatterjee, and Muthyala Anjali), at the IEEE CDC23, Singapore. 

• Our article, QuITO: Numerical software for constrained nonlinear optimal control problems, with Nakul Randad, RihanAaron D'Silva, Mukesh Raj, and Debasish Chatterjee, was accepted to the SoftwareX.

• Gave a talk on robust explicit model predictive control for low- through moderate-dimensional linear systems in Students' workshop SysCon Workshop for Graduate Students, 15-16 September 2023, IIT Bombay.

• 10 Jul 2023: Organized an invited session on computationally tractable constrained control synthesis, with Souvik Das and Debasish Chatterjee, at the IFAC world congress 2023, Yokohama, Japan.

• Presented our article, An illustration of a quasi-interpolation driven technique for feedback synthesis (with Manav Doshi, Debasish Chatterjee, and Ravi Banavar), at the IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, 2023.

• Gave a talk on approximate constrained trajectory synthesis via quasi-interpolation, IIT Gandhinagar, India, March 30, 2023.

• 28 Apr 2023: Patent number 430622 corresponding to application 202221040362 on Method and trajectory management controller for constrained trajectory optimization granted. 

• Give our new solver QuITO (comes with a Graphical User Interface) a try to solve your optimal control problems directly.

• Workshop on Innovations in Nonlinear Control, details can be found on the workshop website. 

• Gave a talk on constrained optimal control and approximation theory, organized by Control and Dynamical System Reading Group, IIT Bombay, India, January 31, 2022.

• Nakul presented our paper, constrained trajectory synthesis via quasi-interpolation (with Debasish Chatterjee and Ravi Banavar) at the IEEE CDC, Cancun, Mexico, 2022.

• Our article, Discrete-time rate constrained maximum principle, with Souvik Das, Debasish Chatterjee and Ravi Banavar, was accepted at the IFAC conference on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNC), Berlin, Germany, 2021.

• Lecture series on brain-inspired robotics by Hiroaki Wagatsuma, Nov 24 to Dec 2, 2021.

• Seminars and talks on the broad area of systems and control: SysConTalks.

• Received the Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) scholarship.