Dr. Spandan Roy currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the Robotics Research Center, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H). He received his B.Tech. from West Bengal University of Technology, completed his M.Tech. in Mechatronics at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, and received his Ph.D. at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His main research interests are adaptive-robust control, artificial delay based design, switched systems and robotics. Prof. Indra Narayan Kar currently serves as a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He completed his B.E. at Bengal Engineering College (now known as Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur), and his M.Tech. and Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include nonlinear systems theory, contraction analysis, adaptive robust control, time-delay system, robust-optimal control theory, cyber-physical systems, control of multi-agent systems, and robotics. He has published many papers in his areas of interest and also co-author of few patents.
