• Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Robert M. Kennedy '26 Professor II
Shankar P. Bhattacharyya

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Rice University – 1971
  • M.S. Control Systems –1969
  • B.Tech., IIT-Bombay – 1967

Research Interests

  • Automatic Control Systems
    Multivariable Control System Analysis and Design
    Computer Aided Control System Design (CACSD)
    Robust Stability and Control Theory and Applications

Awards & Honors

  • Awarded the Professor Visitante Especial in September 2013 by the Brazilian Research Council, 2014-2917
  • Elected Foreign Member of Academia Brasileira de Ciencias (Brazilian Academia of Sciences), 2011
  • International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Fellow Award, 2011
  • Outstanding ECEN Professor Award, 2009.
  • Senior TEES Fellow, 2000
  • Boeing-Welliver Faculty Fellow, 1998
  • Dresser Industries Professor, 1992
  • Halliburton Professor, 1991
  • IEEE Fellow, 1989
  • TEES Fellow, 1989, 1999.
  • National Academy of Sciences- NASA Research Fellow, 1974 - 1975 held at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
  • Government of India Scholar 1962 - 67.

Selected Publications

  • S.Khadroui, H.Nounou, M.Nounou, A.Datta and S.P.Bhattacharyya, ``Robust Control Design Method Using a Set of Measurements´´ Proc. of the 2013 American Control Conference, pp.4325-4330, Washington, DC 2013.
  • S.Khadroui, H.Nounou, M.Nounou, A.Datta and S.P.Bhattacharyya, ``Design of Reduced Order Controllers Using a Set of Measurements: Application to a DC Servomotor´´,Proc of the 2013 American Control Conference, pp.4331-4336, Washington, DC 2013.
  • S.Khadroui, H.Nounou, M.Nounou, A.Datta and S.P.Bhattacharyya, ``A Measurement Based Approach for Tuning Reduced Order Controllers´´,Proc of the 2013 American Control Conference, pp.3876-3881, Washington, DC 2013.
  • N. Mohsenizadeh, H. Nounou, M. Nounou, A. Datta and S.P. Bhattacharyya, “A Measurement Based Approach to Mechanical Systems,” Proc. of 9th Asian Control Conf., Istanbul, Turkey, June 23 - 26, 2013.
  • P. Kallakuri, L.H. Keel, and S.P. Bhattacharyya, "Multivariable controller design with integrity," Proceedings of the 2013 American Control Conference, pp. 5166 - 5171, Washington, DC, June 17 - 19, 2013.
  • N. Mohsenizadeh, H. Nounou, M. Nounou, A. Datta and S.P. Bhattacharyya, “A Measurement Based Approach to Circuit Design,” Proc. of IASTED International Conf. on Engineering and Applied Science, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 27 - 29, 2012, pp. 27 - 34.
  • R. Layek, H. Nounou, M. Nounou, A. Datta and S. P. Bhattacharyya, “A Measurement Based Approach for Linear Circuit Modeling and Design,” Proc. of 51th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA, December 10 - 13, 2012.
  • M.J. Knap, L.H. Keel, and S.P. Bhattacharyya, “Controller design and Gauss-Lucas theorem,” Proc. of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 27 - 29, 2012.
  • N. Mohsenizadeh, S. Darbha, L.H. Keel and S.P. Bhattacharyya, “Model-Free Synthesis of Fixed Structure Stabilizing Controllers Using the Rate of Change of Phase,” Proc. of IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control, Brescia, Italy, March 28 - 30, 2012.