Faculty
Dr Pushpak Jagtap, Assistant Professor, RBCCPS, IISc Bangalore
Research Interests: Control Systems, Robotics, Formal Methods, Learning based Control, Multi-Agent Systems, Nonlinear/Robust/Adaptive Control, Stochastic Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, Spatio-Temporal Logic Specifications
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr Bhabani Shankar Dey (2024-present)
Research Interests: Contraction theory, Switched systems, Stability analysis, Hybrid systems, Impedance Control, Networked control system
Dr Shilalipi Sahoo (2024-present)
Research Interests: Nonlinear Control, Optimization in Control, Approximate-free Control, Nonlinear Dynamics
Research Interests: Networked control systems, Event-triggered control and learning based control
Dr Jerome Moses (2024-present)
Research Interests: Multi-agent Systems, Cooperative Control , Reinforcement Learning, Robotics
PhD Students
Sangeerth P (Siemens PhD Fellow) (2022-present)
Research Interests: Control Systems, Embedded Systems, Optimization
Vaishnavi J (Siemens PhD Fellow) (2022-present)
Research Interests: Robotics, Machine Learning, Control Systems
Ratnangshu Das (Prime Minister's Research Fellow) (2023-present)
Research Interests: Robotics, Dynamics, Control Systems
Shravista Kashyap Chirdre (2023-present)
Co-advised with Dr. Jishnu Keshavan
Research Interests: Robotics, Dynamics, Control Systems
Faizuddin Faruqui (Sponsered PhD, URSC, ISRO) (2023-present)
Research Interests: Autonomous Systems, Formal Methods, Multi-Agent Systems
Sawarkar Shubham Ganesh (2023-present)
Co-advised by Prof Radhakant Padhi
Research Interests: Robotics, Dynamics, Control Systems
Ahan Basu (2023-present)
Research Interests: Data-driven Control
Manan Tayal (Prime Minister's Research Fellow) (2021-present)
Co-advised with Dr Shishir Kolathaya
Research Interests: Safety-critical systems, Robotics, Control Systems
Siddhartha Upadhyay (2023-present)
Research Interests: Control Systems
Saharsh (2025-present)
Research Interests: Tactical defense systems, control barrier function, imitation learning and sliding mode control
Research Staff
Research Interests: Robotics, Dynamics and Control Systems, Soft Robotics
Research Interests: Control Systems, Soft Robotics, Machine Learning
Master Students
Advisor
Mohamed Ansar A (MTech RAS 2025)
Anand Neelappa Sortur (MTech RAS 2025)
Rushikesh Rakesh Jadhav (MTech RAS 2025)
Pukhrambam Akash Singh (MTech ECE 2026)
Archana Kulkarni (MTech RAS 2026)
Soumyadipta Nath (MTech RAS 2026)
Interns
Barbie Sharma
Past Members
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr Pushkar P Arya (Nov 2022 - March 2024) (Now: Assistant Professor at NIT Trichy, Tamil Nadu)
Dr Pankaj K Mishra (April 2022 - September 2023) (Now: Assistant Professor at NIT Harimpur, Himachal Pradesh)
Mahendra Singh Tomar (June 2023 - August 2023) (Now: Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani, Goa)
Research Staff
Jay Bhagiya (Jan 2022 - April 2023) (Now: MS Computer Science at Saarland University)
Jeel Chatrola (Jan 2022 - May 2023) (Now: MS Robotics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
David Smith Sundersingh (July 2022 - July 2024) (Now: PhD at Washington University)
Manas Shashank Juvvi (Jan 2023 - Aug 2024) (Now: MS at Technical University Delft, Delft)
Master Students
Saharsh (MTech RAS 2023) (Now: Engineer at Daimler Truck Innovation Center India)
Sandeep Gorantla (MTech RAS 2023) (Now: Software Engineer at EdgeQ Inc.)
Dibya Dilip (MTech AI 2023) (Now: Working at Indian Air Force)
Lokesh Bansal (MTech RAS 2023) (Now: Data Scientist at Netradyne)
Nilay Srivastav (MTech RAS 2023) (Now: Researcher Trainee at Addverb)
Mohit Kumar Gupta (MTech RAS 2023) (Now: Technical Lead at HCLTech)
Tejas Jain (MTech AI 2023) (Now: Research Engineer at Carl Zeiss)
Vijay Chaurasia (MTech AI 2023) (Now: Data Scientist at RagaAI)
Jakka Pavan Santosh (MTech AI 2023)
Anupam Porwal (MTech RAS 2024) (Now: Lieutenant Colonel in Indian Army)
Pawan Gulia (MTech RAS 2024) (Now: Working in Indian Army)
Abhijeet Antony Tomy (MTech RAS 2024) (Now: Working at Siemens)
Tushar Dilip Kurne (MTech RAS 2024) (Now: Data Scientist at Netradyne)
Tarun Singhal (MTech AI 2024) (Now: Working at Mercedes-Benz R&D)
Geerath Bhat (MTech AI 2024) (Now: Data Science Intern at IHX)
Vinay Kumar Sonkar (MTech AI 2024)
Suraj Kumar (MTech RAS 2024) (Now: Research Scientist at ISRO)
Gajera Vishvasumar Govindbhai (MTech RAS 2024) (Now: Spacecraft AOCS Engineer at Pixxel)
Interns
Mahima Varkey (Now: MS at) Shriram Damodaran (NIT - Jalandhar), Allen Emmanuel Binny (IIT - Kharagpur), Krunal Bhatt (Now: MS Robotics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Ansh Ruparel (Nirma - Ahmedabad), Devansh Savani (MIT - Manipal), Ameya Vaidya (MIT - Manipal), Prapti Bordoloi (Nirma - Ahmedabad), Naveen Sani(IIT - Kharagpur), Marck Koothoor (VJTI - Mumbai), Kuldeep Gurjar (DIAT - Pune), Tanishq Chaudhary (IIT - Dhanbad), Pratham Vishwakarma (IIT - Kharagpur), Yatharth Ahuja, R K Raj Surya (IIT - Palakkad), Anupama Kolsur, Poorvi S H M, Gunjan Haldar, P Govind Rao, Aman Mittal, Anshuman Tejaswi, Anuj Agarwal, Somik Dhar (Now: MS at New York University), Deepesh Padala, Lakshmi Prasad, Sahishnu Raju Kakarlapudi, Saksham Gautam, Shashank M, Shashank M A, Shashwat M A (Now: MS Autonomy and Robotics at Purdue University), Subhodeep Choudhury