SIDDHARTH SANKAR DAS

• Doctoral Candidate in Electrical Engineering with five+ years of research experience in Controller Design, Nonlinear (NL) Control, Sliding Mode Control (SMC), and Higher-Order SMC (HOSMC).
• Extensively worked on various academic projects in Robotics and Cyber-security.
• Authored eight peer-reviewed publications with six first-author papers.
• Interdisciplinary collaborator with experience working in an experimental and translational setting.
• Research Interests: SMC and HOSMC, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning (RL), Automatic Control, Robotics.

[1] S. S. Das, Y. Shtessel, C. Zhang and F. Plestan. Definition and Analysis of Stability Margins for a Class of Nonlinear Systems. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2021 – in print.

[2] S. S. Das, Y. Shtessel and F. Plestan. Phase Margins in a Class of Nonlinear Systems: Lyapunov, Circle Criterion and Describing Function Approaches. IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 53, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 6274-6280, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1743.

[3] S. S. Das, Y. Shtessel and F. Plestan. Analysis of Stability Margins in a Class of Discrete Nonlinear Time-Invariant Systems via Tsypkin Criterion and Describing Function technique. 2020 24th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, Romania, 2020, pp. 412-418, DOI: 10.1109/ICSTCC50638.2020.9259718.

[4] S. S. Das, Y. Shtessel, F. Plestan, S. Nateghi and R J Rajesh. Gain Margins in a Class of Nonlinear Systems: Lyapunov approach. 2020 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 839-844, DOI: 10.1109/CCTA41146.2020.9206380.

[5] S. S. Das, Y. Shtessel and F. Plestan. Phase and Gain Stability Margins for a class of Nonlinear Systems. IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol 51, Issue 25, 2018, pp. 263-268, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.11.116.

• Recipient of The Vanitha and Nagendra Singh Scholarship, 2019 – present.
• Recipient of Anundooram Barooah Award for Academic Excellence, 2007, Government of Assam, India.