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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.

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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Vishnu Nair
Vishnu is a PhD student in the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems. He received his B.Tech. in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from College of Engineering Trivandrum; followed by MS(by Research) from IIT Madras, where he worked on compositionality in spatio-temporal models. His research interests are brain dynamics and piecewise linear dynamics. He claims to be an INFP and seeks to find a one-page-essence of everything that he can get his hands on. When he is stuck at something, he goes to play basketball.

Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra is a PhD student at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems since August 2025. He received his M.Tech. degree in Cyber-Physical Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur in June 2025, where he worked on security in CPS, controller design for mobile robots, and reinforcement learning. Earlier, he completed his B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Sonepat in 2019. Outside academics, he enjoy writing poetry, playing cricket, and exploring new places.

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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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Shashank S (As a Co-advisor, Main advisor: Dr. Gurunath Gurrala, EE, IISc)

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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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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M Hareesh Kumar Reddy
Hareesh works as a Research Associate on the project “Modeling and Vulnerability Assessment of Power Grids.” His Ph.D. thesis is titled “Cyber-Physical Modeling and Control of Smart Grid” in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati. He received his master’s degree in Power System specialization from the National Institute of Technology Agartala in 2019, and my bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, in 2016. His research interests are modeling of cyber-physical power systems, cyber contingency analysis of smart grid, and power system dynamics.

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Anand Singh
Anand is working as a Research Assistant at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, IISc Bangalore. He completed his postgraduate studies in Cyber Physical Systems at IIT Jodhpur in June 2025, where he worked in the Distributed Systems and Control Laboratory (DSCL Lab). His research lies in secure control, reinforcement learning, and cyber-physical security, particularly under adversarial settings. During his undergraduate studies, he worked on medical image processing, which resulted in a publication in PLOS ONE on medical image enhancement using fractional derivatives. He has worked on robot platforms such as TurtleBot 4, Khepera IV, and Crazyflie, developing CPS testbeds to bridge theoretical control with real-world implementation. Outside of research, he writes blogs on AI security, adversarial machine learning, and ethical hacking for CPS. He is also passionate about playing badminton, which helps him maintain a healthy balance between work and life.

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