Dr. Shishir and Dr. Vaibhav joined as Faculty Members at IISc

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Shishir N. Y. Kolathaya is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Automation and a full-time associate faculty of the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (2016) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (2012) from Texas A&M University, and his B. Tech. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (2008) from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. His research interests are in hybrid robotic systems, safety critical control and applications of learning theory to legged locomotion.

Vaibhav Katewa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering and a full-time associate faculty member of the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside from 2017-2019. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 2012 and 2016 and his Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2007, all in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include analysis and design of security and privacy mechanisms for cyber-physical systems and complex networks, decentralized and sparse feedback control, and protocol design for networked control systems.