Key Research Areas

1. Control Systems
2. Sliding Mode Control

About

1. Bijnan Bandyopadhyay received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Bengal Engineering College(presently Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology shibpur), University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India in 1978, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, India in 1986. In 1987, he joined the Systems and Control Engineering group, IIT Bombay, India, as a faculty member, where he has served as Chair Professor during 2015‐2021. From 2022 to 2025 he served as Visiting Professor at IIT Jodhpur. Presently he is serving at IIT Mandi as Distinguished Professor. Professor Bandyopadhyay visited Center for System Engineering and Applied Mechanice(CESAME), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium in 1993 as Visiting Research Fellow.He has guided 42 Ph.D. theses at IIT Bombay. His research interests include the areas of multirate output feedback based discrete‐time sliding mode control, event‐triggered sliding mode control, and nuclear reactor control. Prof. Bandyopadhyay served as Co‐Chairman of the International Organization Committee and as Chairman of the LocalArrangements Committee for the IEEE ICIT, Goa, India, in 2000. He also served as one of the General Chairs of the IEEE ICIT conference, Mumbai, India in 2006. Prof. Bandyopadhyay has served as General Chair for IEEE International Workshop on VSSSMC, Mumbai, 2012. He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics and Associate Editor of IET Control Theory and Applications. Prof. Bandyopadhyay has been awarded the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE IES society in 2019. Professor Bandyopadhyay is Life Fellow of IEEE.

Recent Publications

1. Refer to google scholar

Courses Taught

1. Modeling of Dynamical System
2. Variable Structure System and Sliding Mode Control
3. Advanced Control System
4. Linear System Theory
5. Nonlinear Control | Signals and feedback Systems
6. Large Scale Systems

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Bijnan Bandyopadhyay

Designation: Distinguished Professor