Electrical Engineering

• Institute Silver Medal
• INAE Young Associate
• Most Innovative Project
• Outstanding Graduate Research

Journal
• Modeling and Control of a Three-Phase Five-Port Partially Isolated DC-DC Converter for DC-Powered Commercial Buildings by Mondal A., Kastha D. , Hota A. R., Bajpai P. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics - (Accepted/In-Press)
• Data-Driven Robust Optimization for Energy-Aware Safe Motion Planning of Electric Vehicles by Kumari S., Hota A. R., Mukhopadhyay S. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles - (Accepted/In-Press)
• Game-Theoretic Protection Adoption Against Networked SIS Epidemics by Satpathi A., Hota A. R. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering - (Accepted/In-Press)
• Harnessing Machine Learning in Dynamic Thermal Management in Embedded CPU-GPU Platforms by Maity S., Majumdar A. , Roy R. , Hota A. R., Dey S. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 30 19.1-19.32 (2025)
• Hybrid Model Predictive Control Framework for Efficient Operation of a Five-port Converter Interfaced DC Microgrid by Mallick A., Mondal A. , Hota A. R., Kastha D. , Bajpai P. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 72 6969-6979 (2025)
• Optimal protection and vaccination against epidemics with reinfection risk by Maitra U., Hota A. R., Gupta R. , Hero A. AIMS Mathematics 10 10140-10162 (2025)
• Distributed Coordination of Multi-Microgrids in Active Distribution Networks for Provisioning Ancillary Services by Mallick A., Mishra A. , Hota A. R., Bajpai P. IEEE Systems Journal 8 1492-1503 (2024)
• Coupled Evolutionary Behavioral and Disease Dynamics under Reinfection Risk by Satapathi A., Dhar N. K., Hota A. R., Srivastava V. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 11 795-807 (2024)
• Optimal Bayesian Persuasion for Containing SIS Epidemics by Maitra U., Hota A. R., Paré P. E. IEEE Control Systems Letters 8 2499-2504 (2024)
• Generalized Gradient Flows with Provable Fixed-Time Convergence and Fast Evasion of Non-Degenerate Saddle Points by Baranwal M., Budhraja P. , Raj V. , Hota A. R. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 69 2281-2293 (2024)
• SIS Epidemic Propagation under Strategic Non-myopic Protection: A Dynamic Population Game Approach by Maitra U., Hota A. R., Srivastava V. IEEE Control Systems Letters 7 1578-1583 (2023)
• Learning to Mitigate Epidemic Risks: A Dynamic Population Game Approach by Hota A. R., Maitra U. , Elokda E. , Bolognani S. Dynamic Games and Applications 13 1106-1129 (2023)
• Impacts of Game-Theoretic Activation on Epidemic Spread over Dynamical Networks by Hota A. R., Sneh T. , Gupta K. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 60 92-118 (2022)
• Equilibrium strategies for multiple interdictors on a common network by Sreekumaran H., Hota A.R., Liu A.L., Uhan N.A., Sundaram S. European Journal of Operational Research 288 523-538 (2021)
• Consistency of Distributionally Robust Risk- and Chance-Constrained Optimization under Wasserstein Ambiguity Sets by Cherukuri A., Hota A. R. IEEE Control Systems Letters 5 1729-1734 (2021)
• Controlling Human Utilization of Failure-Prone Shared Resources via Taxes by Hota A. R., Sundaram S. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 66 5772-5787 (2021)
• Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Look-Ahead Economic Dispatch by Poolla B., Hota A. R., Bolognani S. , Callaway D. , Cherukuri A. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 36 2010-2022 (2021)
• A Closed-Loop Framework for Inference, Prediction, and Control of SIR Epidemics on Networks by Hota A.R., Godbole J., Pare P.E. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 8 2262-2278 (2021)
• Behavioral and Game-Theoretic Security Investments in Interdependent Systems Modeled by Attack Graphs by Abdallah M., Naghizadeh P. , Hota A. R., Cason T. , Bagchi S. , Sundaram S. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 7 1585-1596 (2020)
• Game-Theoretic Vaccination Against Networked SIS Epidemics and Impacts of Human Decision-Making by Hota A. R., Sundaram S. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 6 1461-1472 (2019)
• Interdependent Security Games on Networks under Behavioral Probability Weighting by Hota A. R., Sundaram S. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 5 262-273 (2018)
• Fragility of the Commons under Prospect-Theoretic Risk Attitudes by Hota A. R., Garg S. , Sundaram S. Games and Economic Behavior 98 134-165 (2016)
Conferences
• On Logit Dynamics for Multiplayer Trust Game by Mangalindan D., Hota A. R., Srivastava V. American Control Conference - (2025)
• 3D Cooperative Pursuit with Guaranteed Enclosure via Robust Model Predictive Control by Patra D., Hota A. R. American Control Conference - (2025)
• Model Predictive Control based Target Defense with Attacker Trajectory Prediction by Patra D., Kumari S. , Hota A. R. European Control Conference 597-602 (2024)
• Trajectory Prediction under Sensor Bias Fault in a Tactical Aerial Vehicle by Patra D., Halder P., Roy M., Ghosh S., Hota A.R., Mukhopadhyay S. 3rd International Conference on Range Technology, ICORT 2023 - (2023)
• Energy Consumption of Electric Vehicles: Effect of Lateral Dynamics by Kumari S., Ghosh S., Hota A.R., Mukhopadhyay S. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2023-June - (2023)
• Adaptive Identification of SIS Models by Leung C.H., Retnaraj W.E., Hota A.R., Pare P.E. 2023 9th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2023 - Proceedings 168-173 (2023)
• Data-Driven Risk-sensitive Model Predictive Control for Safe Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems by Navsalkar A., Hota A.R. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023-May 1442-1448 (2023)
• Distributionally Robust Optimal and Safe Control of Stochastic Systems via Kernel Conditional Mean Embedding by Romao L., Hota A.R., Abate A. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2016-2021 (2023)
• Epidemic Propagation under Evolutionary Behavioral Dynamics: Stability and Bifurcation Analysis by Satapathi A., Dhar N.K., Hota A.R., Srivastava V. Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2022-June 3662-3667 (2022)
• Breaking the Convergence Barrier: Optimization via Fixed-Time Convergent Flows by Budhraja P., Baranwal M. , Garg K. , Hota A. R. AAAI 2022 1-8 (2022)
• Future aware Dynamic Thermal Management in CPU-GPU Embedded Platforms by Maity S., Roy R. , Majumdar A. , Dey S. , Hota A. R. 43rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) - (2022)
• Data-driven distributionally robust optimization over a network via distributed semi-infinite programming by Cherukuri A., Zolanvari A. , Banjac G. , Hota A. R. 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) - (2022)
• Model Predictive Control Based Economic Operation of Grid-connected DC Microgrid System by Mallick A., Tekumalla D.V., Hota A.R., Bajpai P. ICPS 2021 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems: Developments towards Inclusive Growth for Sustainable and Resilient Grid - (2021)
• Consistency of Distributionally Robust Risk- And Chance-Constrained Optimization under Wasserstein Ambiguity Sets by Cherukuri A., Hota A.R. Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2021-May 3818-3823 (2021)
• A Dynamic Population Model of Strategic Interaction and Migration under Epidemic Risk by Elokda E., Bolognani S., Hota A.R. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2021-December 2085-2091 (2021)
• A Generalized SIS Epidemic Model on Temporal Networks with Asymptomatic Carriers and Comments on Decay Ratio by Hota A.R., Gupta K. Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2021-May 3176-3181 (2021)
• The impacts of behavioral probability weighting on security investments in interdependent systems by Abdallah M., Naghizadeh P., Hota A.R., Cason T., Bagchi S., Sundaram S. Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2019-July 5260-5265 (2019)
• Data-driven chance constrained optimization under wasserstein ambiguity sets by Hota A.R., Cherukuri A., Lygeros J. Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2019-July 1501-1506 (2019)
• Data-driven regret minimization in routing games under uncertainty by DIetrich J., Hota A.R., Cherukuri A. 2019 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019 1702-1707 (2019)
• Dynamic Mechanism Design for Human-in-the-Loop Control of Building Energy Consumption by Schuette M., Hota A. R., Eichler A. , Lygeros J. American Control Conference 247-252 (2019)
• Game-Theoretic Protection Against Networked SIS Epidemics by Human Decision-Makers by Hota A. R., Sundaram S. 2nd IFAC Conference on Cyber-Physical & Human Systems 145-150 (2018)
• Optimal and Game-Theoretic Deployment of Security Investments in Interdependent Assets by Hota A. R., Clements A. , Sundaram S. , Bagchi S. Decision and Game Theory for Security 101-113 (2016)
• Controlling Human Utilization of Shared Resources Via Taxes by Hota A. R., Sundaram S. 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 6984-6989 (2016)
Workshop
• A Closed-Loop Framework for Inference, Prediction and Control of SIR Epidemics on Networks by Hota A. R., Godbole J. , Singh S. , Pare P. The 15th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation 1-1 (2020)
Book Chapter/Section
• A Game-Theoretic Framework for Securing Interdependent Assets in Networks by Hota A. R., Clements A. A., Bagchi S. , Sundaram S. Game Theory for Security and Risk Management 157-184 (2018)

Principal Investigator

• Distributed Risk Sensitive Model Predictive Control for Safe Navigation in Multi-Agent Systems
• Data Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization and Stochastic Predictive Control
• Safety Assessment of Flight Trajectories (SAFT)
• Development and Integration of an Efficient Multi-port Converter in Intelligent Hibrid Microgrid Energy Systems (Imprint-2 / SERB Part)
• Development and Integration of an Efficient Multi-port Converter in Intelligent Hibrid Microgrid Energy Systems (Imprint-2 / Industrial Part)
• Learning Time-Varying Network Structure from Sparse Epidemiological Data

Co-Principal Investigator

• Establishment of TIH on AI and ML for ICPS
• Exploring Formal Methods for Smart Grid Privacy and Security