Faculty at School of Engineering

Ramachandran C A

Ramachandran C A

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering


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Dr. Ramachandran obtained a B.E. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Anna University, Chennai, in 2010. He subsequently joined the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) for his graduate studies. He received his M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, with a specialization in Control and Computing, in 2012, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2021 under the guidance of Prof. Virendra Sule.

Upon completion of the doctoral program, he continued his research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Bombay until May 2022. He then held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Namur, Belgium, working with Prof. Alexandre Mauroy, and at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands, working with Prof. Lelya Ozkan. 

His research interests lie broadly in control, dynamical systems, and optimization. In particular, his work focuses on system identification and parameter estimation, data-driven modeling of large-scale nonlinear dynamical networks, and the study of Boolean Control Networks. He leverages tools from Koopman operator theory and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to develop scalable algorithms and frameworks.

His immediate research focus is in developing interpretable, control-oriented data-driven models, integrated with online data that can serve as surrogate models or digital twins for large-scale systems and networks, such as smart grids and vehicular traffic networks.

Apart from this primary interest in control and dynamical systems, he is also passionate about computational linear algebra over real and finite fields.

Data-driven modeling and control of large scale networks - applications to Smart Grids and Vehicular Traffic Networks. 

Boolean Control Networks - applications to Genetic and Biochemical Networks. 

Hybrid and Switched systems - Data-driven modeling and control, development of surrogate models and Digital Twins of CPS.  

B.E - Electronics and Instrumentation, Anna University, Chennai (2010).

M.Tech - Electrical Engineering (Control and Computing), IIT Bombay (2012) 

PhD - Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (2021).

May 2021- May 2022  - Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Bombay

July 2022 - June 2024 -  Postdoctoral researcher, University of Namur, Belgium

August 2024 - November 2025 - Postdoctoral researcher, TU/e, Netherlands.

IEEE Control Systems Society.

  1. Kesav Kaza, Ramachandran Anantharaman, and Rahul Meshram, Hierarchical decentralized stochastic control for cyber-physical systems, IEEE Control Systems Letters, October 2025.
  2. Ramachandran Anantharaman and Alexandre Mauroy, Koopman operator based identification of nonlinear networks, Nonlinear Dynamics, July 2025.
  3. Ramachandran Anantharaman and Virendra Sule, On linear representation, complexity and inversion of maps over finite fields, Finite Fields and their Applications (FFA) 2024.
  4. Ramachandran Anantharaman and Virendra Sule, Analysis of Periodic Linear Systems over Finite Fields with and without Floquet Transform, Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (MCSS), September 2021.
  5. Ramachandran Anantharaman and Virendra Sule, Koopman operator approach for computing structure of solutions and observability of nonlinear dynamical systems over finite fields, Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (MCSS), April 2021. 
  6. Ramachandran Anantharaman, Vaibhav Somani and Virendra Sule, Rigorous discrete time linearization of periodically switched circuits with respect to duty cycle perturbations, European Journal of Power Electronics, February 2018.

  1. Ramachandran Anantharaman and Alexandre Mauroy, Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Non-uniform Sampling, IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, December 2024.
  2. Ramachandran Anantharaman and Virendra Sule,  Observability Attack on Stream Ciphers. 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Bayreuth, Germany. September 2022.

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Control Systems Letters,  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), American Control Conference (ACC).