Postdoctoral Fellow · IIT Bombay

Dr. Saurabh Kumar

Department of Aerospace Engineering
Autonomous Vehicles Nonlinear Control Path Following Guidance Pursuit-Evasion UAV Systems
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About

Saurabh Kumar received the B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Patna, India, in 2019, the M.Tech. degree in Control Systems Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India, in 2021, and the Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2024.

He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay. His research interests include guidance and control of autonomous vehicles, nonlinear control, and cooperative pursuit-evasion.

Education

July 2021 – March 2025
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
Specialization: Dynamics and Control
Thesis: Guidance and Control for Constrained Motion of Autonomous Vehicles
Aerospace Engineering
July 2019 – June 2021
M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
Specialization: Control Systems
Thesis: Modelling and Control of Quanser 2 DoF Helicopter
Electrical Engineering
July 2015 – June 2019
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering
National Institute of Technology Patna
Thesis: Modulation and Control of Single-Phase Multi-Level Inverter
Electrical Engineering

News

  • [2026-05] Paper accepted at the 2026 Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Bali, Indonesia.

  • [2026-04] Paper accepted at the 2026 IEEE International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), Exeter, UK.

  • [2026-03] Three papers accepted at the 2026 European Control Conference (ECC), Reykjavík, Iceland.

  • [2025-03-10] Successfully defended my Ph.D. at IIT Bombay