BISWADIP DEY
D-309 Engineering Quadrangle http://www.princeton.edu/~biswadip Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering email: [email protected] Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Mobile: (512)657-0805 Research Interests
• Control Theory: Synchronization in Oscillator Networks, Geometric Optimal Control, Feed-back Controlled Bifurcation.
• Robotics: Collective Behavior, Consensus, Motion Planning.
• Other: Data Dimensionality Reduction, Learning Theory, Statistical Causality, Port Hamilto-nian Systems, Behavioral Theory, Inverse Problems Related to Brain-Machine Interface.
Education
• University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD, USA
• Doctor of Philosophy Aug 2009 – Feb 2015
- Major: Electrical & Computer Engineering - Controls
- Dissertation Title: Reconstruction, Analysis and Synthesis of Collective Motion
• Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay Mumbai, India
• Master of Technology Jul 2006 – Jul 2008
- Major: Systems & Control Engineering
- Masters Thesis Title: Stabilizing a Flexible Beam on a Cart: A Distributed Port-Hamiltonian Approach
• Jadavpur University Kolkata, India
• Bachelor of Engineering Jun 2002 – May 2006
- Major: Electrical Engineering
- Project Title: Model Reduction using Genetic Algorithm Scholastic Honours
• 2014 George Harhalakis Outstanding Systems Engineering Graduate Student Award, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park.
• Kulkarni Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for summer 2013, University of Maryland, College Park.
• Clark School of Engineering Distinguished Graduate Fellowship 2009-2010, University of Maryland, College Park.
• RankedFirst in the M.Tech Program at IIT Bombay (GPA:9.97/10).
• Secured an All India Rank 97 (among over 19000 students) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (Electrical) - 2006, a national level graduate entrance examination for the IITs and IISc.
• RankedThird in Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Jadavpur University (GPA:8.89/10). Research Experience
• Postdoctoral Research Associate Princeton, NJ, USA
• Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Mar 2015 – - Advisor: N. E. Leonard
- Analyzing and synthesizing synchronization in a network setting (e.g. leader-follower network of Kuramoto oscillators, network of FitzHughNagumo neuronal oscillators).
- Analyzing emergence and retreat of multiple strategies in a controlled bifurcation setting of replicator-mutator dynamics.
- Analyzing feedback mechanism in predator escape behavior in zebra.
• Graduate Research Assistant College Park, MD, USA
• Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland Jun 2010 – Mar 2015 - Advisor: P. S. Krishnaprasad
- Developed control-theoretic algorithms for data smoothing, with an emphasis on extraction of parameters of motion (speed, curvatures etc.) from sampled position data.
- Analyzed flight data of European starling flocks to infer the underlying flight strategies and steering control laws.
- Analyzed pursuit events of echolocating bats to show the presence of a context specific switch in flight strategy.
- Introduced a novel strategy for collective motion, and currently analyzing the effectiveness of the proposed feedback law.
• Lab Manager College Park, MD, USA
• Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory, University of Maryland Aug 2011 – Mar 2015 - Developed a collective robotics test-bed involving Vicon motion capture system, Pioneer-3
robots and ROS.
- Mentored undergraduate researchers on implementation of decentralized control law for pursuit-evasion and collective behavior.
• Summer Research Intern Rockville, MD, USA
• Intelligent Automation Inc. Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
- Mentor: E. van Doorn
- Developed a support vector machine (SVM) based clustering algorithm for cellphone local-ization in an indoor environment.
- Worked towards development of a robust system (based on sensor fusion) for anti-texting law enforcement.
• Senior Research Fellow Mumbai, India
• Interdisciplinary Program in Systems & Control Engineering, IIT Bombay Jul 2008 - Jun 2009 - Mentor: R. N. Banavar
- Worked on modeling and control of fuel slosh using distributed port-Hamiltonian approach.
• Research Assistant Mumbai, India
• Interdisciplinary Program in Systems & Control Engineering, IIT Bombay Apr 2007 - Jul 2008 - Advisor: R. N. Banavar
- Modeled a flexible beam fixed on a cart as a mixed finite- and infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian system, and derived a control law to stabilize the system.
• Undergraduate Researcher Kolkata, India
• Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University Jul 2005 - May 2006 - Advisor: T. K. Ghoshal
- Approximated a higher-order dynamical system by a lower-order model, and the problem was addressed by solving an L2-norm minimization problem using real coded genetic algorithm.
Publications Pre-print
P5 K. S. Galloway, B. Dey, Stability and Pure Shape Equilibria for Beacon-referenced Cyclic Pursuit, Accepted for ACC 2016.
P4 K. ¨Ozcimder, B. Dey, R. J. Lazier, D. Trueman, N. E. Leonard, Investigating Group Behavior in Dance: An Evolutionary Dynamics Approach, Accepted forACC 2016.
P3 S. Musslick, B. Dey, K. ¨Ozcimder, M. M. A. Patwary, T. L. Willke, J. D. Cohen,Controlled vs. Automatic Processing: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to the Analysis of Serial vs. Parallel Processing in Neural Network Architectures, Submitted toCogSci 2016. P2 B. Dey, P. V. Reddy, C. Chiu, K. Ghose, K. S. Galloway, T. K. Horiuchi, E. W. Justh, C. F. Moss, P. S. Krishnaprasad, Context Shapes Bat Flight Behavior: evidence from geometry of prey capture, To be submitted.
P1 B. Dey, P. S. Krishnaprasad, Trajectory Reconstruction via Optimal Control, To be submitted.
Journal Publications
J1 R. Banavar, B. Dey, Stabilizing a Flexible Beam on a Cart: A Distributed Port-Hamiltonian Approach,Journal of Nonlinear Science, 20(2):131-151, Apr 2010.
Conference Proceedings
C5 K. S. Galloway, B. Dey,Station Keeping through Beacon-referenced Cyclic Pursuit, American Control Conference (ACC), 4765-4770, Chicago, IL, July 2015.
C4 U. Halder, B. Dey,Biomimetic Algorithms for Coordinated Motion: Theory and Im-plementation,IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 5426-5432, Seattle, WA, May 2015.
C3 B. Dey, P. S. Krishnaprasad,Control-Theoretic Data Smoothing,53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 5064-5070, Los Angeles, CA, Dec 2014.
C2 B. Dey, P. S. Krishnaprasad, Trajectory Smoothing as a Linear Optimal Control Problem, 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 1490-1497, Allerton, IL, Oct 2012.
C1 R. Banavar, B. Dey, Stabilizing a Flexible Beam on a Cart: A Distributed Port Hamiltonian Approach, 10th European Control Conference (ECC), 300-305, Budapest, Hungary, Aug 2009.
Teaching and Mentoring Experience
• Lecturer Princeton, NJ, USA
• Princeton University
• Modern Control (Fall 2015).
• Transformations in Engineering and the Arts (Spring 2016).
• Graduate Teaching Assistant College Park, MD, USA
• Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
• Fundamental Electric and Digital Circuit Laboratory (Spring 2010), Numerical Techniques in Engineering (Fall 2009).
• Teaching Assistant Mumbai, India
• Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay
• Special Topics in Systems and Control (Spring 2009, Spring 2008), Systems and Control Engineering Laboratory (Spring 2009, Spring 2008), Systems Theory (Autumn 2008, Autumn 2007).
• Mentor for Undergraduate Research Program College Park, MD, USA • Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
• Nosheen Moosvi (Spring 2014, Fall 2013), Garrett Wenger (Spring 2013, Fall 2012), Ben-jamin Flom (Summer 2011).
• Heterogeneity and Synchronization of Coupled Neuronal Networks (Poster, with E. Davison &N. E. Leonard),
- Princeton Bioengineering Day, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Oct 2015. • Optimal Control for Reconstruction (Poster, withP. S. Krishnaprasad),
- ISR@30 Celebration, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 2015. • Collectives in a Test-bed (Poster, withKevin S. Galloway &Udit Halder),
- ISR@30 Celebration, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 2015. • Data Assimilation: Optimal Fitting, Cross-Validation, and Feedback Laws,
- Workshop on Geometry of Collective Behavior: Control, Dynamics and Reconstruction, 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,Los Angeles, CA, Dec 2014.
• Reconstruction, Analysis and Synthesis of Collective Motion,
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Oct 2014.
- Applied Math Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Sep 2014. • Control Theoretic Data Smoothing,
- Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, Jan 2014. • Control Theoretic Tool for Trajectory Reconstruction (Poster),
- Conference on Dynamics of Prey Capture and Escape, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI,Ashburn, VA, March 2013.
• Energy-Based Control of a Flexible Beam (Poster),
- ECE Research Review Day, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Oct 2009. Relevant Courses Taken
• At University of Maryland: Systems Theory, Adaptive Control, Random Processes in Communication and Control, Stochastic Control, Estimation and Detection Theory, Infor-mation Theory, Real Analysis, Riemannian Geometry, Differential Topology, Nonlinear Data Dimensionality Reduction, Computational Statistics, Principles and Algorithms for Collec-tives.
• At IIT Bombay: Modeling of Dynamical Systems, Multivariable Control System, Nonlinear Control Systems, Optimal Control, Behavioral Theory of Systems, Special Topics in Systems & Control, Applied Linear Algebra, General Topology.
• At Jadavpur University: Control Systems, Process Instrumentation and Control, Ad-vanced Control Theory, Signals and Systems.
Technical Skills
• Scientific Computing: Matlab, Simulink, R, Mathematica.
• Robotic Platform: Hardware - Pioneer-3, Miabot;Software - ROS, CybelePro, ARIA. • Motion Capture: Vicon Nexus, Vicon Tracker.
Professional Activity • Member:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) • Reviewer:
- American Control Conference (ACC); Conference on Decision and Control (CDC); Eu-ropean Control Conference (ECC)
- ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems; Systems & Control Letters
• Co-chair:
- Session on Decentralized Control, ACC 2015 - Session on Optimal Control, CDC 2014 • Co-organizer:
- Workshop onGeometry of Collective Behavior: Control, Dynamics and Reconstruction, 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
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