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 resilience of systems whose dynamics are affected by system faults or adversaries. In relation to this, I have worked on quantifying the resilience of nonlinear dynamical systems under partial adversarial actions.
I am currently working on designing controllers for systems suffering such adversarial attacks, as well as quantifying resilience of nonlinear networks. I am also interested in problems relating to deceiving adversaries in stochastic 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.
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 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 4, 2025 — I was at the 11th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design this week, and was selected as a finalist for the IFAC Young Author Award for our paper “Energetic Resilience of Linear Driftless Systems”.
June 24, 2025 — Our paper “Analysis of the Unscented Transform Controller for Systems with Bounded Nonlinearities,” has been accepted for presentation at the 5th Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC) in October!
June 8, 2025 — Our paper “Mode-Prefix-Based Control of Switched Linear Systems with Applications to Fault Tolerance” has been accepted to IEEE Control Systems Letters!
June 7, 2025 — I was at the 7th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor this week.
May 6, 2025 — I have received the Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year.
April 27, 2025 — I was at the 11th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory at UIUC this weekend, and presented a poster on our recently submitted paper “Mode-Prefix-Based Control of Switched Linear Systems with Applications to Fault Tolerance”.
April 13, 2025 — A new paper “Analysis of the Unscented Transform Controller for Systems with Bounded Nonlinearities,” is available on arXiv, and is primarily the work of an undergraduate student I mentored.
April 7, 2025 — Our paper “Energetic Resilience of Linear Driftless Systems” has been accepted for presentation at the 11th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND) in July!
March 17, 2025 — Submitted a new paper “Mode-Prefix-Based Control of Switched Linear Systems with Applications to Fault Tolerance”. This paper solves optimal control problems for switched systems (with arbitrary switching, either stochastic or potentially adversarial) by transforming them into convex programs using system level synthesis.
February 11, 2025 — Announcing a new paper “Approximate Energetic Resilience of Nonlinear Systems under Partial Loss of Control Authority” on arXiv. This is our first exploration into resilience under possible adversarial action for classical nonlinear systems.