Debasish Ghose (born 16 May 1960) is a professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering,

Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute wa ...

. He is believed to have initiated work on cooperative control in India, having pioneered research on

Intelligent control Intelligent control is a class of control techniques that use various artificial intelligence computing approaches like neural networks, Bayesian probability, fuzzy logic, machine learning, reinforcement learning, evolutionary computation and genet ...

and multi-agents. He founded the first mobile robotics lab in India i.e.

Mobile Robotics Laboratory at IISc The Guidance, Control and Decision Systems Laboratory (GCDSL) is situated in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. The Mobile Robotics Laboratory (MRL) is its experimental division. They are hea ...

in 2002. He is known for his early work in

swarm intelligence Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in ...

distributed computing A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different computer network, networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by message passing, passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed com ...

and

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

. His primary research is in Guidance and control of autonomous vehicles, although, current interest is in

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i.e. Machine Learning for Aerial Robotics. Formerly, he has served as chair of the Department of Aerospace, IISc (2012–15) and convener of the Space Technology Cell (STC), ISRO-IISc. He was a visiting professor at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

for nearly 4 years.

Education

* 1990 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD in Electrical Engineering),

. His specialization is in applied maths (game theory). * 1984 Masters in Electrical Engineering,

* 1982 BSc (Engg), Electrical Engineering,

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela or NITRKL or NITR), formerly Regional Engineering College Rourkela is a publicly funded institute of higher learning for engineering, science and technology located in the steel city of R ...

Academic research

Ghose's research is in the field of intelligent-control and swarms of autonomous systems. He has been working in dynamic game theory, distributed computing, swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems and robotics. The research group has close collaborations with eminent researchers and academic departments in countries such as the US, Israel, UK, Singapore, South Korea, Germany, Japan. He has served in the editorial boards of prestigious international journals and conferences (e.g. IEEE Transactions, Proceedings of IMechE). He has been senior member of several National core technical review committees for critical projects under DRDO, ISRO, NAL etc. He is a senior fellow of the

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. Recently, he has been named as one of the top two percent scientists in the world according to a study done by researchers at Stanford University and appearing in the journal Plos Biology (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918&type=printable).

Mobile Robotics Lab (GCDSL/MRL)

Ghose, along with his student K.N. Krishnanand, developed

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and with Animesh Chakravarthy popularized the collision-cone approach The alumni of the lab have gone on to work on various notable research projects in academia and industry. Recently, there's been a push for ''Learning-based'' projects in the lab, thus increasing collaboration with applied ML (

Machine perception Machine perception is the capability of a computer system to interpret data in a manner that is similar to the way humans use their senses to relate to the world around them. The basic method that the computers take in and respond to their environm ...

) groups in Industry.

References

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