I’m a second-year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Melkior Ornik at the LEADCAT group.
I am broadly interested in problems in control, learning and optimization. I am currently focused on optimal control and reachability for systems whose dynamics are affected by adversaries. In relation to this, I am thinking about (though not yet actively working on!) guaranteeing safety and resilience in adversarial environments.
I received my MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where I worked with Prof. Peter Seiler on analyzing the effect of varying step sizes on the convergence and noise amplification of gradient descent. Prior to this, I worked on the design of robust discrete-time controllers, and adaptive iterative learning control.
You can find a short CV here, and my Google Scholar page here.
Contact: 360 Coordinated Science Laboratory, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Email: ramp3 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Education
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (Current)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Advisor: Prof. Melkior OrnikM.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Advisor: Prof. Peter SeilerB.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2021
PES University, Bengaluru, India.
Advisors: Prof. Rajini Makam and Prof. Koshy George
Capstone Project: Adaptive Iterative Learning Control
News
July 27, 2024 — Our article “Analysis of Gradient Descent with Varying Step Sizes using Integral Quadratic Constraints”, containing most of my MS work, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control as a technical note!
July 24, 2024 — Our paper “How Much Reserve Fuel: Quantifying the Maximal Energy Cost of System Disturbances” has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in December!
July 9, 2024 — I’ve been selected as a mentor for the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP) from the Graduate College at Illinois for 2024-2025.
April 27, 2024 — Presented a poster “How Much Reserve Fuel: Quantifying the Maximal Energy Cost of System Disturbances” at the 10th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory (MWCGT) at Northwestern University, Evanston IL, on some of my very early PhD work.
April 11, 2024 — I’m honored to receive the Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship from the ECE department at UIUC for the 2024-2025 academic year.
March 19, 2024 — Our article “Multiple estimation models for discrete-time adaptive iterative learning control” has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Systems Science. This research was conducted during my undergraduate degree, and this paper has been on an incredibly long journey!