IITKGP

Ashish Ranjan Hota

Ph.D., Purdue University

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Electrical Engineering

+91-3222-283074

ahota@ee.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

My research interests are in the following topics.

1. Stochastic Optimization, Control and Learning
2. Game Theory and Mechanism Design
3. Security, Resilience and Control of Network Systems
4. Applications of the above in Energy Systems
  • Impacts of Game-Theoretic Activation on Epidemic Spread over Dynamical Networks Hota A. R., Sneh T. , Gupta K. By SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 60 92-118 (2022)
  • A Closed-Loop Framework for Inference, Prediction, and Control of SIR Epidemics on Networks Hota A.R., Godbole J., Pare P.E. By IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 8 2262-2278 (2021)
  • Controlling Human Utilization of Failure-Prone Shared Resources via Taxes Hota A. R., Sundaram S. By IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 66 5772-5787 (2021)
  • Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Look-Ahead Economic Dispatch Poolla B., Hota A. R., Bolognani S. , Callaway D. , Cherukuri A. By IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 36 2010-2022 (2021)
  • Fragility of the Commons under Prospect-Theoretic Risk Attitudes Hota A. R., Garg S. , Sundaram S. By Games and Economic Behavior 98 134-165 (2016)
  • A Dynamic Population Model of Strategic Interaction and Migration under Epidemic Risk Elokda E., Bolognani S., Hota A.R. By Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2021-December 2085-2091 (2021)
  • Data-Driven Risk-sensitive Model Predictive Control for Safe Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems Navsalkar A., Hota A. R. By 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - (2023)
  • Data-driven chance constrained optimization under wasserstein ambiguity sets Hota A.R., Cherukuri A., Lygeros J. By Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2019-July 1501-1506 (2019)
  • Equilibrium strategies for multiple interdictors on a common network Sreekumaran H., Hota A.R., Liu A.L., Uhan N.A., Sundaram S. By European Journal of Operational Research 288 523-538 (2021)

Principal Investigator

  • Development and Integration of an Efficient Multi-port Converter in Intelligent Hibrid Microgrid Energy Systems (Imprint-2 / Industrial Part)
  • Development and Integration of an Efficient Multi-port Converter in Intelligent Hibrid Microgrid Energy Systems (Imprint-2 / Industrial Part)
  • Development and Integration of an Efficient Multi-port Converter in Intelligent Hibrid Microgrid Energy Systems (Imprint-2 / Industrial Part)
  • Development and Integration of an Efficient Multi-port Converter in Intelligent Hibrid Microgrid Energy Systems (Imprint-2 / Industrial Part)
  • Development and Integration of an Efficient Multi-port Converter in Intelligent Hibrid Microgrid Energy Systems (Imprint-2 / SERB Part)
  • Learning Time-Varying Network Structure from Sparse Epidemiological Data
  • Safety Assessment of Flight Trajectories (SAFT)

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Adani AI Research Fellowship Program Adani Enterprises Ltd.
  • Exploring Formal Methods for Smart Grid Privacy and Security Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Ph. D. Students

Abhisek Satapathi

Area of Research: Optimal Control, Game Theory

Abhishek Mishra

Area of Research: Hybrid microgrid system

Bhavesh Nandan

Area of Research: Power electronics and renewable energy integration

Dinesh Patra

Area of Research: Control, Game Theory

Simran Kumari

Area of Research: Vehicle Supervisory Control and Autonomy

Urmee Maitra

Area of Research: Network Systems, Game Theory

MS Students

Anjana B

Area of Research: Security of Cyber Physical Systems

Arghya Mallick

Area of Research: Microgrid, Control, Optimization