Alumni

Dr. Prajakta Surve

May 2024 - August 2024

Research Topic: Nonlinear Guidance Strategies for Autonomous Vehicles

Currently: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Michigan State University, USA

Dr. Abhinav Sinha

May 2021 - November 2021

Thesis: Cooperative Nonlinear Guidance Design

Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Dr. Saurabh Kumar

July 2021 - December 2024

Thesis: Guidance and Control for Constrained Motion of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles

Currently: Project Research Scientist, IIT Bombay

Dr. Prajakta Surve

July 2018 - October 2023

Thesis: Nonlinear Guidance Strategies for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles with Terminal and In-flight Constraints

Jointly Co-supervised with Dr. Arnab Maity, IIT Bombay

Currently: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Michigan State University, USA

Dr. Kakoli Majumder

July 2018 - November 2023

Thesis: Finite-Time Convergent Nonlinear Terminal Constrained Guidance Strategies

Currently: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Linkoping University, Sweden

Dr. Rohit Nanavati

January 2018 - June 2021

Thesis: Suboptimal Terminal Constrained Nonlinear Guidance for Aerospace Vehicles

Jointly Supervised Dr. Arnab Maity, IIT Bombay

Currently: Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay

Dr. Abhinav Sinha

July 2018 - October 2020

Thesis: Cooperative Nonlinear Guidance and Control Using Impact Time

Recognition: Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research for the year 2020-22

Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Dr. Srijan Tripathi

July 2016 - June 2024, Dual Degree (MTech+PhD)

Thesis: Seeker based Terminal Guidance Design for Tactical Interceptors

Jointly Co-Supervised with Dr. Arnab Maity, IIT Bombay and Dr. J. Umakant

Cuurrently: Defense Research and Development Organization, India

Dr. Vijith Mukundan

July 2016 - June 2024, Dual Degree (MTech+PhD)

Thesis: Mission Planning and Guidance for Reusable Launch Vehicle with Air Breathing Propulsion

Jointly Co-Supervised with Dr. Arnab Maity, IIT Bombay and Dr. U.P. Rajeev, ISRO

Currently: Indian Space Research Organization

Sunny Gupta

2025

Thesis: Vibration Tolerant Robust Controller Design for Gun Mounted on Naval Platform

Currently: Rolls-Royce

Akriti

2025

Thesis: Navigation through Arbitrary Shaped Openings

Jointly Co-Supervised with Dr. Hemendra Arya, IIT Bombay

Anish Singh

2025

Thesis: Guidance and Control of Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones)

Jointly Co-Supervised with Dr. Hemendra Arya, IIT Bombay

Karthickeyan V

2024

Thesis: Navigation of UAV through Arbitrarily Shaped Openings and Stand-off Target Tracking

Jointly Supervised with Dr. Hemendra Arya, IIT Bombay

Currently: Airbus, Bangalore, India

Ashok Samrat R

2024

Thesis: Nonlinear Terminal Constrained Guidance with Field-of-view and Input Bounds

Currently: Mathworks, Bangalore, India

Siddanagouda K Hadagali

2024

Thesis: Attitude Determination in Reconfigurable Drones

Jointly Co-Supervised with Dr. Hemendra Arya, IIT Bombay

Currently: Indian Army, India

Kasukurthi Saathvika

2023

Thesis: Satellite Attitude Control using Actuators

Cuurrently: Airbus, Bangalore, India

Tabiyar Rasesh Narendrabhai

2023

Thesis: Decentralized Cooperative Guidance Strategies with Free-Will Arbitrary Time Consensus

Currently: Defense Research and Development Organization, India

Gokul Surendran

2023

Thesis: Cooperative Formation Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Cuurrently: Airbus, Bangalore, India

Susan Basnet

2023

Thesis: Trajectory Tracking Controller for Autonomous Surface Vessels

Cuurrently: Research Scholar at Technical University of Denmark

Nipen Khirsaria

2022

Thesis: Nonlinear Spacecraft Attitude Control Design using Modified Rodrigues Parameters

Cuurrently: Engineer, Eaton Corporation, Pune, India

Narahari Suman

2022

Thesis: State Estimation and Guidance Design for Hypersonic Glide Vehicle

Cuurrently: Defense Research and Development Organization, India

Shivam Kumar Singh

2022

Thesis: Nonlinear Control Design for an Unmaned Aerial Vehicle for Path Following and Obstacle Avoidance

Cuurrently: AVA retail.ai

Prajjwal Jaiswal

2021

Thesis: Development of Robust Autonomous Flight Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Currently: Axis Bank, India

Milan Chavda Maganlal

2021

Thesis: Trajectory Generation and Following for Autonomous Vehicles

Currently: Axis Bank, India

Naveen Kumar S.

2020

Thesis: Nonlinear Cooperative Guidance Strategy for Survival of Aircraft Team

Recognition: Institute Silver Medal for the year 2019-20

Currently: Mathworks, Bangalore, India

Himanshu U.S. Bishwash

2020

Thesis: Nonlinear Impact-Time Constrained Guidance Strategies

Currently: Engineer, Eaton Corporation, Pune, India

Vivek Ramteke

2019

Thesis: Halo Orbit Maintenance around L1 Point of the Sun-Earth System

Currently: Pursuing PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Manish Arjun Singh

2019

Thesis: Path Planning and Intercept Angle Guidance with Obstacle Avoidance

Currently: Siemens, Pune, India

Syed Mudassir Ali

2019

Thesis: Fault Tolerance in Distributed Kalman Filter Team

Currently: TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Bangalore, India

Jointly supervised with Dr. Arnab Maity, IIT Bombay

Dhruv Sagar Phadke

2025

Thesis: Robust Guidance and Control of Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Patel Hemali Sureshbhai

2025

Thesis: Designing of a UAV Capable to Maneuver in GPS-Denied Environment

Jointly Co-Supervising with Dr. Hemendra Arya, IIT Bombay

Nikhil

2025 (expected)

Thesis: Dynamics and Simulation of Hybrid wing UAVs

Milind Kharwade

2023

Thesis: Terminal-Time Constrained Interception using Exact-Time SLiding Mode Control

Cuurrently: Mercedes-Benz

Chandra Prakash Saini

2022

Thesis: Sliding Mode Based Design for Delivery and Object Tracking using UAV System

Cuurrently: Cogoport

Prathamesh More

2022

Thesis: Moving Target Encirclement using Range and Heading based Measurements

Cuurrently: ZS Associates

Jinay Patel

2021

Thesis: Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking using Model Predictive Control

Currently: PhD Research Scholar, University of Texas, Arlington, USA

Atul Saurav

2019

Thesis: Cooperative Guidance Strategies for Active Aircraft Protection

Currently: Airbus, Bangalore, India

Lagnesh Mahapatra

2025 (expected)

Thesis: Spacecraft Attitude Control

Rucha Manish Aghera

2025 (expected)

Thesis: Localization and Obstacle Avoidance for GPS-Constrained Drones

Jointly Co-Supervising with Dr. Hemendra Arya, IIT Bombay

Patel Hemali Sureshbhai

2025 (expected)

Thesis: Designing of a UAV Capable to Maneuver in GPS-Denied Environment

Jointly Co-Supervising with Dr. Hemendra Arya, IIT Bombay

Ajay Tak

2024

Thesis: Stability Analysis & Validation of 3D Swarming Algorithm in Real-World Communication Scenario

Vignesh Anand

2023

Thesis: Hardware Implementation and Validation of Swarming Algorithm

Jointly Supervised with Dr. Leena Vachhani, IIT Bombay

Cuurrently: Soon to join Masters at Stanford University

Atharva Mete

2023

Thesis: Multirobot Field Mapping using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Cuurrently: Soon to join Masters at Georgia Tech. University

Navjit Debnath

2023

Thesis: Cooperative Pursuit and Evasion Strategies

Cuurrently: Soon to join Pine Labs

Rohit Karthikeyan

2022

Thesis: Cooperative Pursuit and Intruder Swarm Evasion using Collision Cones

Aditya Patil

2021

Thesis: Integrated Guidance and Control for Terminal Time Constraint (BTP-1)
Finite Time Consensus of Multi Agent System with Second Order Dynamics (BTP-2)

Currently: Citi Bank, India

Shashank Verma

2020

Thesis: Band Structure of Silicon (BTP-1 jointly with Prof. Navin Khaneja)
Control of Load Carrying Small Scale Helicopters (BTP-2 jointly with Prof. Ravi Banavar)

Currently: Ph.D. Research Scholar, University of Michigan, USA

Dr. Saurabh Kumar

March 2025 - August 2025

Project: Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone and related Technology): GNC Algorithms and Simulations

Dr. Bhagyashri Tamhane

March 2023 - October 2024

Project: Multi-Vehicular Cooperative Pursuit and Evasion Guidance Strategies: Multi-Agent Perspective

Avinash Kumar Dubey

April 2023 - October 2024

Project: Multi-Vehicular Cooperative Pursuit and Evasion Guidance Strategies: Multi-Agent Perspective

Iftisam

February-December 2021

Currently: National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, India

Bhaskar Biswas

2017-2018

Project Assistant: Three-Dimensional Impact Angle Constrained Guidance Design