Aparajita Sengupta was born in Kolkata in 1969. She stood first among girls and overall 3rd in West Bengal in the Madhyamik Pariksha in 1986. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (B. E.) degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1988 and won a gold medal for best Sessional work in EE. She did her Master of Technology (M.Tech) from IIT, Kharagpur in 1994 winning a Silver medal for best performance among the postgraduate students in EE. She completed Ph.D in Engineering with Control Systems specialisation from IIT Kharagpur in 1997. In the same year she joined as a Lecturer in EE in the erstwhile Bengal Engineering College, (DU) and since then has been serving there. She is working there as Professor in EE, since 2012.
Her own PhD work centred around Hinfinity Optimal Control. Though presently she is more interested in application of control theory on real physical systems
She has guided five PhD theses. The first candidate Arpita Mukherjee worked on Dynamic State Estimation which was supported by a DRDL sponsored project entitled "Kinematic State Estimation of Tactical Ballistic Missiles". This thesis produced three excellent publications in SCI journals. The second and third PhD candidates were jointly guided on control problems in the field of Power Systems and Power Electronics. Side by side Aparajita completed two sponsored research projects funded by ISRO and AICTE respectively.
Her last two PhD candidates worked on analysis and control of Nonlinear Time Delay Systems using Linear Matrix Inequalities. The candidates have produced four SCIE journal prublications.
Presently two ongoing PhD candidates are working under her. One of them is
Presently she is eager to nurture the immense scope projected in Artificial Intelligence. She is trying to contribute in the filed of machine learming, particularly in neural networks and reinforcemnt learning in control. Parallely she is attempting to apply control theory on real physical systems.
She is the mother of Arkadeb (27 years) and Shruti (19 years).
Ongoing Student Projects:
M.Tech Projects:
1. Reinforcement Leaning Control of Real Physical Systems.
2. Hinfinity Control of Real Physical Systems. (1. Microgrid system - simulation only. 2. Rotary Servo Flexible Link system - (hardware application through software)
M.Tech Projects (2023):
1. Neural Network Modelling, Parameter Estimation and Control of Physical Systems (simulation), Smart Disease Identification using neural netoworks.
2. Application of Reinforcement Learning in Control Systems Problems (simulation)
B.Tech Project (Ongoing):
Wind Power prediction using Machine Learning.
Played an important role in drafting the present UG, PG and PhD regulations.
Acted as the HOD of SOMS for the period.
Created: 23 November 2019
