Twinkle Tripathy

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Office address: WL-216, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur - 208016, UP, India.

Phone number: (+91)512-679-2201

Email: ttripathy[at]iitk[dot]ac[dot]in

Research interests

Path planning of autonomous vehicles, consensus problems in multi-agent systems, opinion dynamics.

Secure Border Surveillance By A Team Of Autonomous Vehicles, Sponsored by SERB, Govt. of India, Oct. 2022 to Sep. 2024.
Design Of Cooperative Guidance Laws For Stand-Off Tracking By A Team Of Underactuated Pursuers, Sponsored by IITK, Jan. 2022 to Dec. 2024.

Recipient of the 'Young Woman Researcher Award' by Venus International Foundation, 2025.
Recipient of the 'Best Woman Professional Award', Early Career Category, IEEE India Council, Pralhad P. Chhabria Awards, 2024.
Excellent reviewer awardee for AIAA JGCD (Oct. 1 2018 - Sept. 30 2019 ).
'Merit scholarship' awardee throughout undergraduate studies at College of Engineering & Technology, Bhubaneswar.
First position holder in 12th board examination at Shaila Bala Womens' College.

Delivered talks in Michigan State University and UMBC, Maryland on 'Leveraging Network Topology for Influence Modification in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model'. [Jun. & July 2025]
Aashi presented a poster in the American Control Conference. [July 2025]
Aditi and Aashi presented papers in the European Control Conference. [June 2025]
We conducted three more workshops on IoT and 'Recent Advances in Robotics' for school going students in Kanpur and Gorakhpur. [Apr.-May 2025]
Delivered a talk on 'Structural Balance in Social Networks', STTP/FDP on Advances in Control, Estimation & Optimisation in Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Rourkela Subsection. [Jan. 2025]
Awarded the 'Young Woman Researcher Award' by Venus International Foundation. [Dec. 2024]
Awarded the 'Best Woman Professional Award' by IEEE India Council and the Hope Foundation. [Dec. 2024]
We conducted a series of IEEE Workshops on IoT for some of the school going kids in Kanpur and Lucknow. [Nov.-Dec. 2024]
Prof. Tal Shima visited us early this month. [Sep. 2024]
Aashi delivered a talk at the Learning and Control Colloquium organised by SysCon and CSE, IIT Bombay. [Aug. 2024]

Dr. Rajasekhar Anguluri visited us for a week in the last week of July 2024.
Aditya received the Prof. Samares Kar Memorial Gold Medal for the best B.Tech. Project in Electrical Engineering, IITK. [June 2024]
Akshay, Arijit, Kaustubh, Vishnudatta, Aditya and Ritick graduated from IIT Kanpur with flying colours! [June 2024]
Delivered a tutorial session in 8th SCES-2024. [June 2024]
I was recently elevated to a Senior Member Grade for IEEE. [May 2024]
Delivered a talk in ICC 2023 as an invited speaker on 'Consensus in Structurally Balanced Signed Networks'. [Dec. 2023]
We are conducting an online short term course on graph theoretical aspects of multi-agent systems from 30th Aug. - 1st Sep., 2023. For more details, please see https://www.iitk.ac.in/cce/courses/23-24/graph-theoretic-approaches-in-multi-agent-systems/.
Our paper got accepted for SciTech 2024, congratulations Piyush and Ishir. [26 Aug., 2023]
Congratulations Aashi for receiving PMRF! [March 2023]
The last year ended with Puneet and Aashi presenting their first papers. Many more to come! Best wishes for the new year from DCoDe lab.
Congratulations Puneet and Aashi on the acceptance of our papers! [22 Sep., 2022]
Aashi submitted her first paper, congratulations! [3 July, 2022]
Presented a collaborative work on boundary surveillance problems virtually in AIAA SciTech Conference. [6 Jan., 2022]
Our group submitted its first two papers, congratulations Kaushik and Eashwar! [31 Jan., 2022]

I am always actively looking for students with an inclination towards control/robotics/mathematics.

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