Dr. Debasattam Pal

Professor Control and Computing group Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Contact

Office Adress:
Room no. 231 D
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Bombay, Powai
Mumbai 400076
email: debasattam(at)ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone: (022) 2576 7442

Academic Background

• B.E. (Department Topper) in Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, 2005

• M.Tech. (Institute Topper) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, 2007

• Ph.D. (Best Thesis Awardee) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, 2012

Experience

• Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati, 2012-2014

• Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay, 2014-2019

• Associate Professor at IIT Bombay, 2019-2025

• Professor at IIT Bombay, 2025-present

Editorial Responsibiities

• Associate Editor for Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (MCSS)

• Associate Editor for Indian Control Conference (ICC)

Courses

• Nonlinear systems and control (IITG: Spring 2013 and 2014)

• Linear systems theory (IITG: Autumn 2013)

• EE714: Behavioral theory of systems (Spring 2015 and 2016)

• EE302: Control theory (Spring 2016, 2017, and 2018)

• EE759: Applied mathematical analysis in engineering (Autumn 2016 and 2017)

• EE635: Applied linear algebra (Autumn 2018, 2019)

• EE636: Matrix Computations (Spring 2019)

• EE613: Nonlinear dynamical systems (2022, 2023, 2025)

Students

• Graduated

  • Ph.D.

    • Chirayu D. Athalye (jointly with Prof Harish Pillai).

      • Thesis title: “Stability Analysis of Autonomous Systems”.

      • Chirayu is currently an Assistant Professor at BITS Goa.

    • Chayan Bhawal (jointly with Prof Madhu Belur).

      • Thesis title: “Generalized Riccati Theory: a Hamiltonian System Approach”.

      • Recipient of the Excellence in Ph.D. Research Award.

      • Chayan is currently an Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati.

    • Mousumi Mukherjee.

      • Thesis title: “Characterising Initial Data for Systems of Partial Differential and Difference Equations”.

      • Recipient of the Excellence in Ph.D. Research Award.

      • Mousumi is currently an Assistant Professor at IIEST Shibpur.

    • Vishal S. Sawant (jointly with Prof Debraj Chakraborty)

      • Thesis title: “Consensus with Minimum Communication”.

      • Vishal is currently doing post-doc Denmark.

    • Imrul Qais.

      • Thesis title: “Riddles in the Optimal Singular LQR Problem”.

      • Recipient of the Excellence in Ph.D. Research Award.

      • Imrul is currently an Assistant Professor at IIT Tirupati.

    • Phani Raj Harivanam.

      • Thesis title: “Stability of Switched Singular Systems”.

      • Recipient of the Excellence in Ph.D. Research Award.

      • Phani is currently an Assistant Professor at Amrita College of Engineering, Bengaluru.

• • M.Tech.

    • Imrul Qais. Currently an Assistant Professor at IIT Tirupati.

    • Suprojit Mukherjee. Currently working in Cypress Semiconductors, Bengaluru.

    • Mahesh Bothe.

    • Rajan Mantri.

    • Sushmita Hoskeri. Currently working in G.E. Transportation, Bengaluru.

    • Ayan Sengupta. Currently working in NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan.

    • Nayan Nitnaware.

  • D.D. (B.Tech. + M.Tech.)

    • Garvit Vijayvargiya. Currently working in Times Internet, Mumbai.

    • Krishna Medikonda. Currently working in Swiggy, Mumbai.

  • B.Tech.

    • Prasan Angothu. Currently doing M.B.A. at IIM, Calcutta.

    • Parth Kothari. Currently pursuing Ph.D. at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

    • Tejeshwar Thorawade. Currently pursuing Ph.D. at IIT Bombay.

    • Shiva Gantha. Currently working in Samsung, Bengaluru.

• Current students

  • Ph.D.

    • Aishwarya Bharti. Thesis title: “Infinite Dimensional Systems”.

    • Hemanta Hazarika (jointly with Prof Dwaipayan Mukherjee). Thesis title: “Snake Robots”.

    • Susmitha T. Rayabagi (jointly with Prof Dwaipayan Mukherjee). Thesis title: “Bearing only formation control”.

    • Swati Singh (jointly with Prof Shashi Ranjan Kumar and Prof Dwaipayan Mukherjee). Thesis title: “Passivity based guidance”.

Sponsored projects

• As PI

  • “Fast computation of exact solutions of systems of partial differential and difference equations.” DST INSPIRE. Completed in January, 2021.

  • “Advanced control systems for LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational wave Observatory) India.” IUCAA. Completed in September, 2021.

  • “Graded Hautus test for controllability of distributed parameter systems.” SERB MATRICS. Completed in February, 2023.

• As Co-PI

  • “Distributed spacecraft formation flight using limited information exchange.” ISRO.