Debasish Ghose
Debasish Ghose is a professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science.[1][2] He is known as the "Father of Cooperation Control" (multi-agent/intelligent systems) in India. He founded Mobile Robotics Laboratory at IISc in 2002. His research is in the field of guidance and control of autonomous vehicles, distributed computing, swarm intelligence.[3] Dr. Ghose along with his student K.N. Krishnanand developed Glowworm swarm optimization.[4] He's a senior fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
He was a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
Biography
Debasish Ghose studied Electrical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in 1982. He did his Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science in 1990.
Research
His research is in the field of guidance and control of autonomous vehicles, dynamic game theory, distributed computing, swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems and robotics. The research group lab has close collaborations with eminent researchers and academic departments in countries such as USA, Israel, South Korea, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia.
He's 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.
About the Aero Department
In the recent Shanghai Ranking [now called the Academic Ranking of World Universities], the department was ranked 32nd in the Subject Ranking for Aerospace engineering[5]. It is the only department at IISc to be ranked in the top 50. IISc is at 8th postion in the Times World's Best Small Universities[6], and was previously listed in top 100 in the Times World Reputation Rankings.
The Department of Aerospace Engineering holds a prime position as the largest academic department in terms of number of students and faculty as well as laboratory space. The faculty and staff have completed advanced degrees or training in the best universities around the world. The department is popular being the foundation grounds of India's Space research and later for its cutting edge research in all aspects of aerospace technology. Apart from being a defense-oriented scholarly effort, the recent thrust areas of the department is development of novel drone technologies for various critical applications such as precision agriculture, disaster management and other high impact civilian applications. Green aviation (cleaner technologies) is a proposed thrust area keeping in mind the carbon/emission footprint.
It encompasses three distinct-centers, the Joint Advanced Technology Program (JATP) funded by DRDO, the Space Technology Cell (STC) funded by the Department of Space, and the Center for Excellence in Hypersonics with BrahMos Aerospace to work on scramjet combustion. Very soon, there is going to be another one in the defence sector with Bharat Dynamics Ltd.
References
- ^ http://www.aero.iisc.ernet.in/users/dghose
- ^ http://www.deccanherald.com/content/365111/eads-iisc-ally-aerospace-research.html
- ^ https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=BUfKuTYAAAAJ&hl=en
- ^ "Glowworm swarm optimization for simultaneous capture of multiple local optima of multimodal functions". Swarm Intelligence. 3: 87–124. doi:10.1007/s11721-008-0021-5.
- ^ "Global Ranking_of_Academic_Subjects_20171110.pdf". Google Docs. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "The world's best small universities 2017". Times Higher Education (THE). 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
External links
- [1] - Debasish Ghose at Aero india