Research Group

Research Students

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Ananta Kant Rai
Ananta is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering since Feb. 2021. Prior to this, she worked at Jio Platforms Limited (July 2019 – Feb 2021). She received her undergraduate degree from NIT Uttarakhand in ECE in 2019. She works on network design for resilient networked control systems.

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Manoj Kumar M
Manoj is a PhD student in the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems, where he joined in August 2024. He comes with 12+ years of industrial experience and is currently employed in Mercedes Benz Research and Development India Pvt Ltd., He received his B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering , Mysore in 2012. His research interest lies in automotive cybersecurity. In free time, Manoj likes to indulge in poetry and dance.

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Vaishnavi Sharma
Vaishnavi is a M Tech Research student in Cyber Physical Systems at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems since August 2024. She received her B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur in May 2023. During her Bachelor's, she worked in the area of numerical analysis and deep learning for improving numerical schemes for hyperbolic PDEs at TIFR- Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore. Her broad research interests lie in control, learning, and optimization theory. In her free time, she enjoys painting, blogging, and playing musical keyboard.

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M.Tech. Students

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Swarnadip Saha
Swarnadip is a M.Tech. student in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical Systems since Aug. 2023. He received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2023. His broad research interest are in mathematical control theory, optimization techniques, security and privacy of networked and distributed control systems, and reinforcement learning. He enjoys reading books on variety of topics and listening to music during leisure time.

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Aditya Mohan
Aditya is an M.Tech student in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems since August 2024. He completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College in 2021. Aditya's research focuses on advanced areas of robotics and autonomous systems, including multi-modal sensor fusion, deep learning-based architectures, and robust perception for autonomous vehicles. Before joining IISc, he gained hands-on industrial experience at Hawkins Cookers Ltd, where he worked in production planning and control.

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S. Dheeraj Kumar
Dheeraj is an M.Tech student in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, IISc. He completed his B.Tech in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from NIT Trichy. His research interests focus on networked and distributed control systems, as well as the security and privacy of cyber-physical systems. Before joining IISc, he worked as an embedded software engineer at Boeing, where he gained valuable experience in software development. A passionate sports enthusiast, Dheeraj enjoys engaging in various sports during his free time and is also an avid music lover.

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Manish
Manish is an M.Tech. student in the Electrical and Communication Engineering, where he joined in August 2024. He received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai in 2024. His research interest lies in dealing with real world signals through machine learning techniques, such as reinforcement learning and attention mechanisms for automation systems.

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Md Samsad Alam
Samsad is pursuing M.Tech. in Artificial Intelligence at IISc since August 2024. He earned his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 2021. After graduation, he worked for three years at Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Ltd., serving as a Power Distribution Engineer, and later as an Executive in the Office of the Managing Director. His academic interests lie in the application of AI to the Healthcare, Transport, and Energy sectors. Outside academics, he enjoys engaging in community discussions on X (formerly Twitter) about topics of interest and playing cricket as an outdoor sport.

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Guna Vardhan Vyas N
Guna is pursuing his M.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering offered by the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering since August 2024. He received his B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication with minors in Information Technology from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal in 2024. Grab his attention with anything <i>cyber</i> from exploits and security, to games and networks, to the endless possibilities of the cyber space.

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Vrishab Kempula
Vrishab is an M.Tech. student in Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) since August 2024. He graduated from VNIT Nagpur in 2022 with a B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and worked at Reliance Industries Limited from 2022 to 2023. His interests lie in exploring machine learning and its applications. Outside academics, he enjoys hitting the gym regularly and playing badminton.

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Project Assistants

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A Nayan Aahladh
Nayan is currently working as a project associate on vulnerability assessment of power grid substations. He completed his B.Tech from Bangalore Institute of Technology (BIT) in 2022, after which he worked at Nuron Networks (Aug ’22 - Dec ’23).

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Alumni

  • Rahul N R. M.Tech. (Research) in Electrical Communication Engineering, 2021-2024. Presently at Ericsson.

  • Varkey John. M.Tech. (Research) in Electrical Communication Engineering, 2020-2023. Presently at Georgia Tech. (LinkedIn Profile)

  • Alvin P Cheriyan. M.Tech. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022-2024. Presently at Addverb. (LinkedIn Profile)

  • Sudheendra R. M.Tech. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022-2024. Presently at Applied Materials. (LinkedIn Profile)

  • Laxmikant Pai Angle. M.Tech. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022-2024. Presently at Siemens, Bangalore. (LinkedIn Profile)

  • Prashanth S. M.Tech. in Electrical Communication Engineering, 2022-2024. Presently at Qualcomm, Hyderabad. (LinkedIn Profile)

  • Tanisha Koshti. M.Tech. in Electrical Communication Engineering, 2022-2024.

  • Sreejeet Maity. M.Tech. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021-2023. Presently at North Carolina State University.

  • Daniyal Khan. M.Tech. in Electrical Communication Engineering, 2021-2023. Presently at Qualcomm. (LinkedIn Profile)

  • Laksmi Hansda. M.Tech. in Communication and Networks, 2020-2022. Presently at IISc. (LinkedIn Profile)

  • Saksham Bhutani. Project Student, 2023-2024. Presently at CMU. (Website Link)

  • Neelaksh Singh. Undergraduate Intern while at BITS Pilani, 2021-2022. Presently at ETH Zurich. (LinkedIn Profile )