Educational background

Honours / Awards

• U.S. National Academies post-doctoral award – National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship since August 2015.
• IISc Junior and Senior Research Associateship award in August 2014 and March 2015.
• Israeli Government scholarship for international summer-school at Technion, Israel in 2013.
• Gold Medal for being top scorer of the 2009 batch of M.Tech. in QROR of Indian Statistical Institute.
• KVPY Summer Camp Invitee in 2003.
• Merit certificate for state rank 41 out of approximately 0.7 million students in the secondary examination in 2000.
• Certificate of competence in NTSE (National Talent Search Exam) in 2000.
• Award of best demonstrator in annual Exhibition of my school - Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Purulia - in 1998-1999.

Invited talks

• Guidance against Higher Speed Targets and Maneuvering Targets, TCS Innovation Lab, Kolkata, November 2018
• Guidance of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles, DRDL, Hyderabad, India, November 2018
• Basics and Applications of Guidance in Aerospace, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, March 2018
• Guidance in UxV Systems, ST Engineering - Marine Division, Singapore, October 2017
• PN-Gain-Varied Trajectory-Shaping Guidance for UxV Missions, Department Symposium at the Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, USA, July 2017
• On the Development of Airborne Sense and React Capability, CRUSER Brief (with co-speaker Prof. Oleg A. Yakimenko during the visit of Dr. Frank Herr, the head of ONR’s Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department at NPS), Naval Postgraduate School, USA, February 2017
• Towards a Benchmark for Autonomous Aerial Pursuit-Evasion Engagements, Department Symposium at the Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, USA, June 2016
• Proportional Navigation-based Guidance Laws – Basics and Applications in Different Domains, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA, June 2016
• Analysis of PN Class of Guidance Laws, Winterschool organized by School of Systems and Control, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, January 2012
• Fault Level Computation in a Power Plant and Selection of Current Transformers, Siemens Ltd., Kolkata, India, July 2007

Other presentations

• Guidance and Control of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, December 11-14, 2016.

Scientific affiliations and services

• Member of IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Society.
• Reviewer Panel -

  IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Asian Journal of Control, Elsevier Chinese Journal Aeronautics, Elsevier Defence Technology, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, IEEE Conference on Decision Control (CDC), American Control Conference, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation, IFAC Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, AIAA Region VI Student Conference.

• Session Chair – ‘Aerospace Systems’ at IEEE CDC 2016, 'Guidance and Navigation' at ICC 2019