Personal Profile

Educational Qualification

Ph.D. (EE)	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 1996 Thesis Title: Neural Controllers for Robot Manipulators
M.Sc. (Engg) (EE)	EE Regional Engineering College, Rourkela 1990 Thesis Title: AI Based Expert Control of Dynamical System
B.Sc. (Engg)(EE)	Regional Engineering College, Rourkela 1988

Research Experience

Area(s)	Organization	Duration
Cognitive modeling, Soft computing, Quantum computing and Robotics, Intelligent control	Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208 016, India	Dec 2005 - continuing
Cognitive modeling, Soft computing, Quantum computing and clustering, Intelligent control	Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208 016, India	Dec 2001- Dec 2005
Evolutionary computation, Stochastic cellular automata, Evolutionary game theory	Guest Researcher Fraunhofer Institute of Autonomous Intelligent Systems Germany	May 2003-July 2003
Evolutionary computation, Stochastic cellular automata, Evolutionary game theory	Guest Researcher Fraunhofer Institute of Autonomous Intelligent Systems Germany	June 2002-July 2002
Evolutionary Computation, Stochastic cellular automata,Evolutionary game theory	Researcher Real World Computing Partnership AiS.ART Group, GMD, Germany	Oct 2000-Dec 2001
Consciousness studies, Statistical Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence	Center for Consciousness Studies Bhaktivedanta Institute, Juhu Road Mumbai	July 1999-Oct 2000
Intelligent Robotics, Neural networks and control	Assistant Professor and Coordinator Center for Robotics & Intelligent Systems Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani	July 1995-May 1999
Microprocessor, Fuzzy logic controller	Lecturer Dept. of Elect. Engg Regional Engineering College	July 1990-Aug 1991

Teaching Experience

Duration	Organization	Courses Taught
Dec 2001 - cont.	IIT, Kanpur	EE 671 Neural Networks EE 653 Digital Control, EE650 Basics of Modern Control Systems EE 250 Control Systems Analysis ESO 210 Basic Electrical Engineering
July 1999 - Oct 2000	BI, Mumbai	CONS ZG551 Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, CONS ZG619 Professional Practice
July 1995 - May 1999	BITS, Pilani	Neural Networks, Control Systems Advanced Control Systems
July 1990 - August 1991	REC, Rourkela	Control Systems Design, Electrical Machines

Professional Responsibilities

Convener, DPGC, EE, IIT, Kanpur (2003-2004)

Convener, Departmental Seminar, EE, IIT, Kanpur (2002-2003)

Advisor, Graduate Studies, Bhaktivedanta Institute, Juhu, Mumbai (1999-2000)

Coordinator, Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, BITS, Pilani (1996-1999)

Member, Library Committee, BITS, Pilani, India (1995-1999)

Member, Doctoral Counseling Committee, BITS, Pilani (1996-1999)

Research Interests

Machine Learning and Intelligent Control

Cognitive Modeling and Brain Theory

Bayesian networks

Visual Tracking and Eye Movement

Intelligent Robotics

Neural Networks and Soft-computing

Multi-agent Systems: Population dynamics and evolutionary games

Research Grants

Principal Investigator, MHRD Sponsored project, Adaptive nonlinear control - A foundational framework using classical and quantum algorithms, Rupees 0.6 million, IIT, Kanpur

Principal coordinator, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) sponsored project, Fuzzy neural networks for modeling and control of nonlinear dynamical systems, Rupees one million, BITS, Pilani.

Chief investigator, UGC(University Grant Commission) sponsored project, Intelligent control of nonlinear dynamical system using radial basis function network and fuzzy basis function network, Rupees 0.5 million, BITS, Pilani

Project grant due to 'career award for young teacher', AICTE, Rupees 0.20 million, BITS, Pilani.

Awards and Recognition

Best Paper of the Conference, International Conf. on Intelligent Sensors and Information Processing, ICISIP-2004, January, 2004, India

Best Paper award, WoSco,02, Int. Conf. High-Performance Computing (HiPC), 2002, Bangalore, India

Biographical Mention: Marquis Who's who in science and engineering, fifth edition, 2000/2001

AICTE career award for young teacher, 1997

NRTS - (1977-1981) National Rural Talent Search Scholarship

National Scholarship - (1981-1988)

Other Professional Activities

National Advisory Committe Co-chair, First World Congress in Lateral Computing, Bangalore, December 2004

Track Chair, Neural Networks, International Conf. Intelligent Sensor and Information Processing, January 2005, Chennai

Technical Programme Committee Member, Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005

Coordinator for workshop on Soft Computing, 29 March 2003, IIT, Kanpur

Chaired the panel discussion on 'Future of Soft Computing', HiPC, 2002, Bangalore

Member, International Program Committee, Workshop on Soft Computing, HiPC-2002 and HiPC-2003

Reviews submitted papers for IEEE Trans Neural Networks, IEEE Trans Evolutionary Computation, IEE Proceedings Control Theory and Applications, and IETE Journal of Research.

Guided Research

Ph.D. Students

Indrani Kar: Quantum Neural Networks and Cognitive Modeling

Awhan Patnaik: Quantum Dynamics

Swagat Kumar: Neural Control

Master's Students

Name	Year	Title of Thesis
Swagat Kumar	2004	Nonlinear System Identification and Control Using Neural Networks
Subhas Das	2004	Controlling an Inertial Wheel Pendulum - A Passivity Approach
Bapi Raju	2004	Nonlinear Control Strategies for Underactuated Mechanical Systems
E. Vijay Prakash	2003	Tracking and Estimation of parameters of linear time-variant systems
Shaji Thomas	2000	The role of ergodicity in foundations of statistical mechanics
Pramod S	1998	Inverted pendulum control using fuzzy neural networks
K K Anand	1998	Guaranteed Tracking and regulatory pH control using fuzzy neural networks
Amitabh Mukerjee	1998	Image coding using LPC and neural networks
Chandra Shekhar	1998	Image coding using KL transform and neural networks
K. Madhava Krishna	1997	Global path planning for mobile robots
Deepak Rajsekar	1997	Navigation in the presence of moving obstacles
R. Vishwanathan	1997	Recurrent learning algorithms
Shobhan Kumar	1996	Solving Traveling Salesman problem using Hopfield and Kohonen networks
D. Kalita	1996	Real-time control of CRS-Plus arm using CMAC networks
Poonam Singh	1991	Microprocessor based state feedback control of a position servo

Key Research Contributions

EKF (extended Kalman filtering) based inversion algorithm for RBF network.
Query based learning trajectory to generate dimensionally sufficient data.
Disturbance invariant and model predictive control scheme for pH reactor to attain perfect regulation in the presence of unknown disturbances.
Ultrasonic sensor based navigation using Kohonen's SOM
Stochastic filtering and speech enhancement using a recurrent quantum neural network, a novel approach for cognitive modeling
Real time implementation of advanced control strategies such as parametrized adaptive control, adaptive fuzzy control, model-free and model-based adaptive control using MLN and CMAC for trajectory tracking of CRS plus, a 5-dof robot arm.
Hybrid neural control schemes for visual-motor coordination - a real-time experimentation using cognachrome vision system.
Stochastic analysis of pattern formation in multi-agent systems.
Quantum clustering algorithm for hand-eye coordination problems.

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