Formed in 1977, it is a unique interdisciplinary program in the country that offers post-graduate education in the broad area of Systems and Control.

Joined July 2024
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Big congrats to Viyom Vivek on defending his PhD thesis: "Geometric Integrators for Mechanical Systems" under the guidance of Prof. Ravi Banavar
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Scalable autonomy for multi-agent systems: from decentralized decisions to mission-level coordination—powered by adaptive and learning-based approaches. #Robotics #MultiAgentSystems #AI
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Big congrats to S Deepak Mallya on defending his PhD thesis: "A Unified Recurrent Framework for Priority-Based Multi-Agent Patrol Problems: Theory and Algorithms" under the guidance of Prof. Arpita Sinha and Prof. Leena Vachhani
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Research Talk: Continuous-time persuasion by filtering Dynamic persuasion, stochastic control, and information design — with applications to energy systems and carbon disclosure. #ControlTheory #GameTheory
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Talk: Modeling & Control for Advanced Surgical Robotics From stable haptic teleoperation (NOTES) to supervised semi-autonomous ureteroscopy, this work unifies Lyapunov-based control, neural adaptation & physics-consistent digital twins for safe, precise surgery.
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📢 Talk: Lyapunov-Based Deep Learning for Safe & Reliable Autonomy Integrating Lyapunov stability with deep nets to guarantee convergence, robustness & safety during online learning and control. Bridging adaptive control and AI for provably safe autonomy. #SafeAI #ControlTheory
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Big congrats to ASHWIN ARAVIND on defending his PhD thesis “Uncertainty-aware Optimization, Learning and Control with Multi-Agent Perspectives” under the guidance of Prof. Debasish Chatterjee & Prof. Ashish Cherukuri
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📢 Talk: What Kinds of Functions Do Neural Networks Learn? Low-Norm vs. Flat Solutions Low-norm solutions show strong, dimension-independent generalization. Flat minima may fail in high dimensions due to “neural shattering.” New theory on what truly drives generalization.
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📢 Join us online for a talk on Differentiable World Models & Physical AI — enabling AI systems to see, predict, act, and safely interact with the real world. From fast physics simulators to adaptive control & safety guarantees. #PhysicalAI #Robotics #AIResearch #SysCon
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Big congrats to Girish Gokul on defending his PhD thesis: "Modelling and Control of the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) with Inclusion of Steam Drum Dynamics" under the guidance of Prof. B. Bandyopadhyay, Prof. S. Bhartiya (Chemical Engg) & Dr. Shimjith
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🎙️ Talk by Dr. Justin Dauwels (TU Delft) Explore Generative AI, deep generative models, and object-centric modeling — plus new AI initiatives from his research group. #GenerativeAI #AIResearch #TUDelft
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Join us for a talk discussing Hierarchical autonomy for autonomous aerial construction with heterogeneous UAV teams. Bridging optimal scheduling and reactive execution to enable safe, time-critical multi-UAV construction under tight temporal, causal, and safety constraints.
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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rajasekhar Anguluri to SysCon, IIT Bombay. His research focuses on linear systems and networks, structured and sparse estimation, and high-dimensional data science, with applications of mathematical engineering to energy and societal systems.
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Big congrats to Reema Deori on defending her PhD thesis: "Truth, Obfuscation and Trust in Persuasion Games" under the guidance of Prof. Ankur Kulkarni
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Persuasion with imperfect decision-makers When receivers don’t act optimally, the classic Revelation Principle breaks. But we show weaker versions still hold, letting the sender rely on simple action recommendations and compute near-optimal policies efficiently. Join to know more
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Big congrats to Veejay Karthik J on defending his PhD thesis: "Learning Augmented Integrated Planning, Control and Safety for Safe Mobile Robot Navigation"! Guided by Prof. Leena Vachhani
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Big congrats to Ashmita Roy on defending her PhD thesis: "Robust Control Design for Suspension Systems in LIGO"! Guided by Prof. R.N. Banavar and Prof. D. Chatterjee.
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How do opinions evolve when people compete for limited resources? 🧠💡 We model opinion dynamics in social networks using a game-theoretic lens—exploring convergence, oscillations, dominance, and links to Nash equilibria & price of anarchy. Join us for this exciting talk.
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📢 Admissions Open! IIT Bombay invites applications for the PhD Programme at the Centre for Systems and Control. Apply now to pursue cutting-edge research in diverse areas of Systems & Control. Visit sc.iitb.ac.in/admission_phd.… for more details #PhDAdmission #IITBombay #SysCon
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