ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1. 01 July 2021 – present: Post-doc researcher with Professor Naim Bajcinca at Mechanical and Process Engineering Department, Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU) Kaiserslautern, Germany
2. 01 July 2019 – 30 June 2021: Post-doc researcher with Professor Ivan Markovsky at ELEC Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
3. 31 January 2018 – 13 June 2019: Research Fellow (Post-Doctoral Fellow) with Professor Mark Goh, The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
4. 20 March 2017 – 15 January 2018: Post-Doctoral Fellow with Professor Avishy Carmi, Mechanical Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Beer-Sheva, Israel
5. 29 August 2016 – 17 March 2017: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur (NITJSR), Jamshedpur, India
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2016, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India
Thesis title: Controllability and Feedback Control Problems for Linear Time-Invariant Descriptor Systems
Supervisor name: Professor Nutan Kumar Tomar
M.Sc. 2011, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
Thesis title: Approximation by Iterates of Beta Operators
Supervisor name: Professor P. N. Agrawal
Major subjects: Fluid Dynamics, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, C++, Lebesgue Measure and Integration, Optimization, Mathematical Modelling and Simulation, Probability and Statistics, Discrete Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Graph Theory.
B.Sc. 2009, Science Faculty, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, India
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. January 2023 – December 2025, Under Priority Programme: SPP2364 of DFG (German Research Foundation), Germany with Professor M. Thommes (TU Dortmund) and Professor N. Bajcinca (RPTU Kaiserslautern). Project title: ``Adaptive data-driven predictive control using behavioral approach for autonomous powder compaction.”
2. 2017, Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF), India with Professor S. Raha (IISC Bangalore). Project title: ``Controllability and optimal control problems for infinite dimensional descriptor systems” [Didn’t avail].
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1. Guest editor: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, for the Special Issue "Recent advances in synchronization and control of chaotic systems and their engineering applications," 2020
2. Organized a special session on “Data-driven control” in MTNS-2021 with Ivan Markovsky and Melanie Zeilinger (ETH Zurich) [conference did not take place due to Covid-19; accepted papers were published]
Service as a Reviewer
Journals: Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet, American Mathematical Society; zbMATH; Automatica, Elsevier; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier; International Journal of Control, Taylor & Francis; Asian Journal of Control; IEEE Access; International Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, Springer; Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Serie A. Matemáticas, Springer; SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization; IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals; IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS); IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems; Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Elsevier
Conferences: Conference on Decision and Control (CDC); European Control Conference (ECC); American Control Conference (ACC); CoDIT Conference; IFAC World Congress
HONORS AND AWARDS
1. 2009, JAM (Joint Admission Test for M.Sc.) in Mathematics with AIR (All India Rank) 154 out of 3000 students (approx.).
2. 2011, GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) in Mathematics with AIR 169 out of 3793 students, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), New Delhi, India.
3. June 2011, CSIR-NET Qualified in Mathematical Science with NET (LS) AIR 55 out of 10000 students (approx.).
4. June 2012, CSIR-NET Qualified in Mathematical Science with UGC-JRF AIR 89 out of 10000 students (approx.).
5. 2009-10 and 2010-11, Merit-cum-Means (MCM)-scholarship, IIT Roorkee.
6. 2009, Secured a prize (9th position) in Professor H.C. Khare Memorial Quiz, Department of Mathematics, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India.
7. 2015, travel grant, CICS, Chennai, India, 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), October 13-16, 2015 at Bexco, Busan, Korea.
8. 2016, IEEE-CSS student support, Indian Control Conference (ICC) 2016, January 4-6, 2016 at Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad, India.