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Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Email: sri03[at] engineering [dot] upenn [dot] edu
I am on the academic job market this cycle seeking faculty positions in control systems and related areas.
Please contact me at sri03[at]engineering[dot]upenn[dot]edu if you think I might be a good fit.
Brief Biography
Brief Biography
Postdoctoral researcher
Current University of Pennsylvania, Host: Prof. George Pappas
2024-2025 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Host: Prof. Karl Henrik Johansson and Prof. Henrik Sandberg
Ph.D.
2019 - 2024 Uppsala University, Advisors: Dr. Andre Teixeira and Prof. Anders Ahlen
M.Sc.
2017-2019 Delft University of Technology, Advisor: Prof. Simone Baldi
Research interests
Research interests
My research develops robust control theory for dynamical systems under adversarial uncertainty, with applications to cyber-physical systems, power networks and multi-agent robotic systems. Specific themes include:
Robust control against adversarial uncertainty: security metrics that quantify worst-case performance loss under stealthy attacks, with analysis and design via dissipativity, S-procedure and integral-quadratic-constraint arguments; extensions to uncertain, data-driven and nonlinear systems.
Scalable robust control of large-scale networks: positivity, model-order reduction and learning-to-optimize methods for the analysis and design of secure networked control systems.
Robust control meets AI: control-theoretic tools for the robustness and security of learning-enabled loops and of ML models themselves (neural-network controllers, deep state-space models, LLM-driven robot teams), and foundation models for attack detection.
Grants/Awards
Grants/Awards
VR International Postdoc grant, Swedish Research Council, 2024
Research topic: Analysis and Design of Secure Large-Scale Networked Control System.
Grant duration: 3 years
Grant sum: 4.05 MSEK
Host: Prof. George Pappas (University of Pennsylvania) and Prof. Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH)
Research topic: Total positivity: A framework for Secure Network Control.
Grant duration: 1 year
Grant sum: 1.1 MSEK
Host: Christian Grussler (Technion, Israel)
Karl Engvers Foundation Scholarship, 2025
Award sum: 33 KSEK
Travel support for the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
Liljewalch travel scholarships, 2023
Award sum: 47 KSEK
Host: Christian Grussler, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
Stenholm Wilgott travel scholarship, 2022.
Award sum: 120 KSEK
Host: Michelle S. Chong, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
IEEE Travel Scholarship, 2022.
Travel support for the 6th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2022 awarded by the IEEE Control System Society (CSS).
IEEE Travel Scholarship, 2021.
Registration support for the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021, awarded by the IEEE CSS.
Dean's List scholarship, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Was awarded a cash prize for academic excellence for four years of undergraduate studies.
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