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  • [Apr '23]: Our paper titled "Online Attack Recovery in Cyber-Physical Systems", accepted in IEEE Security and Privacy.
  • [Feb '23]: Our poster on "Hybrid Systems under Adversarial Scenarios" accepted at ACC '23. 
  • [Jan '23]: Our paper titled "Accelerating Distributed Optimization via Fixed-time Convergent Flows: Extensions to Non-convex Functions and Consistent Discretization" accepted at IFAC World Congress '23. Preprint
  • [Jan '23]: Our paper titled "An Observer-based Switching Algorithm for Safety under Sensor Denial-of-Service Attacks" accepted at ACC '23. Preprint

  • [Oct '22]: Our paper titled "Fixed-Time Convergence For a Class of Nonconvex-Nonconcave Min-Max Problems" accepted at Indian Control Conference '22. Preprint
  • [Jul '22]: Our paper titled "Control barrier function based attack-recovery with provable guarantees" accepted for IEEE CDC'22 Preprint
  • [Jul '22]: I joined REALM lab at MIT as a postdoctoral associate 
  • [Jun '22]: Giving an invited talk at UT Dallas on our recent work on sampling-based methods for CPS security
  • [Jun '22]: Our paper "Accelerated Methods for Distributed Optimization Problems using Fixed-time Stability of Continuous-time Dynamical Systems" accepted for ICML Workshop on Continuous Time Methods for Machine Learning, ICML '22
  • [May '22]: Co-organizing a full-day workshop in the upcoming IEEE CDC '22 on "Cyber-security in control of CPS: recent developments and open challenges" with Prof. Ricardo Sanfelice and Prof. Alvaro Cardenas. More details: Workshop webpage. 
  • [May '22]: Co-organized a workshop on "To Phd or not to PhD" with Prof. Pascale Garaud for scholars of applied math (SAM) students at UCSC
  • [May '22]: Our paper titled, "Sampling based Computation of Viability Domain to Prevent Safety Violations by Attackers" accepted in IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2022. Preprint
  • [Mar '22]: Selected for the prestigious DAAD AInet Fellowship for the Postdoc-NeT-AI - AI and Robotics
  • [Feb '22]: Gave a seminar in the William Maxwell Reed Seminar Series organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky
  • [Feb '22]: Presented our work on sampling-based method for computation of viability domain in AFOSR Center of Excellence in Assuring Autonomy in Contested Environments Seminar
  • [Feb '22]: Our paper titled, "Fixed-time control under spatiotemporal and input constraints: A Quadratic Program based approach" accepted in Automatica. Paper
  • [Dec '21]: Gave a talk on how to prepare an effective Statement of Purpose for grad-school applications as part of the mentorship program at MESA Engineering Program, UCSC
  • [Dec '21]: Our paper titled, "Breaking the Convergence Barrier: Optimization via Fixed-Time Convergent Flows" accepted at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022. Paper
  • [Aug '21]: Our paper on finite-time stability of switched systems using multiple Lyapunov functions accepted at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2021 Preprint
  • [Jul '21]: Our paper on finite-time stability of hybrid systems using multiple Lyapunov functions accepted in Frontiers in Control Engineering journal Paper
  • [May '21]: Our paper on multi-rate control design under input constraints via fixed-time barrier functions accepted in IEEE Control Systems Letters Paper
  • [May '21]: Our paper on control barrier functions in sampled-data systems accepted in IEEE Control Systems Letters Paper
  • [May '21]: I joined Hybrid Systems Lab at UCSC as a postdoc scholar.
  • [Mar '21]: I succesfully defended my PhD dissertation on Advances in the Theory of Fixed-time Stability with Applications in Constrained Control and Optimization. (PhD defense video)
  • [Mar '21]: Awarded Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement for the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
  • [Mar '21]: Awarded Professor Pierre T. Kabamba Award for excellence in control systems by the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan