Shashi Ranjan Kumar
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Dr. Shashi Ranjan Kumar is an Associate Professor at the
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay. The research topics of his group,
Intelligent Systems and Control (ISaC) Lab, fall within the
broad area of guidance and control of autonomous vehicles.
Specifically, his group focuses primarily on designing simple
and efficient strategies for guiding autonomous vehicles to
achieve various in-flight as well as terminal constraints.
These strategies are applicable for various types of vehicles
such as fixed-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),
and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs); and are suitable for a
variety of applications such as pursuit and evasion, target
capture, online delivery system, surveillance and exploration
etc. Additionally, the problems related to
spacecraft/satellite such as orbit maintenance, attitude
control and synchronization, rendezvous and docking, and space
robotic manipulators etc. are also being investigated by his
group.
Phone: 022 - 2576 7108
Email: srk@aero.iitb.ac.in; srkumar@iitb.ac.in
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Education
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PhD, Aerospace Engineering, 2015,
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
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ME, Aerospace Engineering, 2010,
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
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BTech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2008,
MIT Muzaffarpur, [Presently affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU)]
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Thesis: Design, Testing, and Validation of Transceiver
Circuits for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
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Other Project: Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware
Description Language (VHDL) Implementation of 16-bit Arithmetic
Logic Unit (ALU)
Appointments
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Associate Professor, June 2023 - Present, Department of
Aerospace Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Assistant Professor, July 2017 - June 2023, Department of
Aerospace Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Postdoctoral Researcher, November 2015 - July 2017,
Cooperative Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering ,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (Sponsor:
Tal Shima)
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IISc Junior Research Associate, June 2015 - October 2015,
Guidance, Control, and Decision Systems Laboratory, Department
of Aerospace Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Recognitions & Awards
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C1973 Research Excellence Award, 2024, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
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Hotchand and Jamunabai Lala award for Excellence in Teaching in year 2022, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
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Excellent Reviewer Award in AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2021-22, 2023-24.
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One of the papers listed as "Highly cited paper in the field" in
ISI Web of Science and also ranked 1 in Google Scholar Metrics
in the last five years (during 2013-2017, 2014-2018, and
2015-2019) appearing in AIAA-Journal of Guidance, Control, and
Dynamics.
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Two of the papers among “Highly Cited Articles (3rd and 6th
ranking)” in Google Scholar Metrics in the last five years
(2012-2016) appearing in AIAA-Journal of Guidance, Control, and
Dynamics.
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Two of the papers listed as 16th and 23rd most cited articles in
AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics for the
all-time, in November 2020.
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Two of the papers listed in “Highly Cited Articles” in Web of
Science, and “99%ile” and one in 98%ile of Citations in Scopus.
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Field citation ratios (FCR) for some of the papers: 70, 38, 37,
15, 9.31.
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Four of the papers having "Field-Weighted Citation Impact" of
more than 9 (with the scores of 14.78,11.82.10.23,9.61) in
Scopus.
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Three of the papers appeared in “5 Most Read Articles” of the
AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.
Young Faculty Award, IIT Bombay (2017).
ACC Student Travel Award (2013, 2014).
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DST International Travel Support, Science and Engineering
Research Board (2013).
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