About

I am an associate professor in the Centre for Systems and Control at IIT Bombay. I am broadly interested in problems related to dynamical systems and control theory, with particular emphasis on systems governed by partial differential equations. Some of the ongoing research in my group are on the motion planning for thermal systems and flexible structures, parameter estimation of thermal systems, observer design for nonlinear partial differential equations and vibration control in flexible structures.

For industry partners: The research activities in my group are often inspired by industrial problems. In the past, I have worked closely with the steel industry and currently I am working with a semiconductor equipment manufacturer. Please see the Sponsored projects page and CDC lab page for some details. I am constantly on the look out for industrial problems that can be addressed using tools from control theory. In case you would like to speak to me about a potential problem, please drop me a mail. 

For students: The ongoing research in my group involves theoretical, computational and experimental studies. I encourage prospective postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and MTech students interested in dynamics and control to write to me outlining their interests. IIT Bombay undergraduates willing to work on problems for at least 4 months can contact me.

Research areas

Motion planning, vibration control, parameter estimation, averaging, stabilization, observer design, adaptive control, multiagent networks, thermal systems, flexible robots, partial differential equations, inverse problems, numerical methods.

Experience

• Associate professor, Systems & Control, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, since May 2021

• Assistant professor, Systems & Control, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

• Postdoctoral scholar, Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Education

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• MS, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• MS, Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University

• BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Announcements

[21st March 2026] Paper on ``Null controllability of a 1D linear parabolic PIDE using flatness and semi-discretization'' with Soham Chatterjee has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems

[11th March 2026] Paper on ``Algorithmic design of realizable low-order IIR filters for phase matching'' with Rishabh Shetty and Kumar Appaiah has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters

[24th December 2025] Continuum Dynamics and Control (CDC) lab had a stall in TechConnect 2025 held at IIT Bombay, where we exhibited the ongoing research in our lab including a working prototype of a cable robot. General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff, visited our stall and interacted with the students

[20th December 2025] Presented joint work with Soham Chatterjee titled ``On the convergence of a numerical scheme for a boundary controlled 1D linear parabolic PIDE,'' at the Eleventh Indian Control Conference held at IISc Bangalore

[1st November 2025] New consultancy project funded by Applied Materials, Inc. has started

[22nd July 2025] Soham Chatterjee defended his PhD thesis on ``Flatness-Based Motion Planning of PDEs via Semi-Discretization"

[30th June 2025] Dhruv Sorathiya presented his dual degree project on ``Design, fabrication, modeling and control of a cable-driven parallel robot"

[26th June 2025] Sudipto Chattopadhyay presented our work on ``Frequency-domain adaptive parameter identification of linear infinite-dimensional systems'' at the  23rd European Control Conference held at Thessaloniki, Greece

[12th June 2025] Sudipta Chattopadhyay defended his PhD thesis on ``Adaptive identification and constrained control of linear systems''

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