Welcome to my personal academic website!

I am a Researcher at Microsoft Research, India.
I was a postdoctoral research fellow at United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Adelphi, MD from Sept. 19- Aug. 21.
My current research mainly focuses on (but not limited to) Reinforcement learning, Machine learning applied to large-scale datasets, Sparse optimization, Bayesian inferencing, Monte-Carlo sampling approaches, and optimization.
I completed doctoral studies from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on the control and coordination of multi-agents with partial information. I am so honored to receive Prof. A. K. Rao Gold Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis by the Institute.
A few key topics of the doctoral research include observability and state estimation, formation control, optimization, multi-agent control.

Latest News:

Nov 2021: I joined Microsoft Research, Bangalore.
Oct 2021: Honored to receive Prof. A. K. Rao Gold Medal for Best PhD Thesis of 2019-2020 during the Convocation Ceremony at IISc
Oct 2021: Submitted latest work on Reinforcement Learning.
Sept 2021: Paper submitted to ICRA, see publications page.
June 2021: Latest work on Reinforcement Learning is now available in Arxiv, see publications page.
Speaker, Short Term Training Program Series, College of Engineering, Trivandrum, March 22-26, 2021
Invited talk as a part of Aerospace Engineering Graduate Seminar Series, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Feb. 26, 2021: "Bayesian Approaches and Aerospace Applications"
Articles on our work at US Army Research Laboratory (ARL):
- Army researchers enhance communications for multi-agent teaming
- Army Research Team Applies Automation to Multi-Agent Situational Awareness

Reviewer for IEEE Publications: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics, Control and Decision Conference (CDC), IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Workshop 2021, American Control Conference (ACC), European Control Conference (ECC), Indian Control Conference (ICC)
Reviewer, Defence Science Journal Min. of Defence, India
Reviewer of Springer Publications: Journal of Intelligent and Robotics System, Journal of Advances in Space Research.
Reviewer of Elsevier Publications: Digital Signal Processing
Reviewer, Nonlinear dynamics
Reviewer for AIAA Publications: Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) SciTech Forum and Exposition.
Reviewer of IFAC Publications: Automatica, International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS)
Reviewer, Learning for Dynamics and control (L4DC)
Reviewer, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)