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 system faults or adversaries. In relation to this, I am working on guaranteeing resilience, safety, and optimality for nonlinear systems in such environments.

I am also working on a game-theoretic viewpoint on resilience to adversarial attacks, and problems relating to deceiving adversaries in stochastic control systems. I plan to think about applications in cyber-physical networks, such as large-scale traffic systems soon.

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.

You can find my 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 Ornik

  • M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
    Advisor: Prof. Peter Seiler

  • B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2021
    PES University, Bengaluru, India.
    Advisors: Prof. Rajini Makam and Prof. Koshy George
    Capstone Project: Adaptive Iterative Learning Control

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