Tanmay Dokania

Blue Ridge Mountains

Hey! I am a third-year PhD student in Robotics in the Aerospace Engineering department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I work in Astro-X Lab. I completed my Bachelors (B.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering, with honours at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where I was honored with the Institute Silver Medal for achieving Department Rank 1.

During my undergrad, I have been fortunate enough to collaborate with Prof. Ravi Banavar on the control of nonholonomic agents using ideas from geometry, with Prof. Florian Shkurti on formulating safety guarantees for imitation learning, and with Prof. Dwaipayan Mukherjee on formation control for collision avoidance based on bearing measurements.

Besides my academic pursuits, I find pleasure in playing the guitar and singing. From time to time, I share my musical videos on YouTube.

You can find my CV or my notes here.

Publications

socx: GPU-Accelerated Chance-Constrained Stochastic Optimal Control using JAX

Tanmay Dokania, and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026

Submitted; under review

arXiv Bib

@article{dokania2026socx,
  title = {{socx}: {GPU}-Accelerated Chance-Constrained Stochastic Optimal Control using {JAX}},
  author = {Dokania, Tanmay and Kumar Nakka, Yashwanth},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Submitted; under review},
}

Risk-Aware Kinodynamic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty For Safe Navigation on Planetary Environments

Sachin Sunil Kelkar, Tanmay Dokania, and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026

Submitted; under review

arXiv Bib

@article{kelkar2026risk,
  title = {Risk-Aware Kinodynamic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty For Safe Navigation on Planetary Environments},
  author = {Kelkar, Sachin Sunil and Dokania, Tanmay and Kumar Nakka, Yashwanth},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Submitted; under review},
}

Exact and Approximate Convex Reformulation of Linear Stochastic Optimal Control With Chance Constraints

Tanmay Dokania, and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka

IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2026

Volume 10, pages 787–792. Best student poster, annual DCL student symposium (2026)

Bib HTML

@article{11554308,
  author = {Dokania, Tanmay and Kumar Nakka, Yashwanth},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
  title = {Exact and Approximate Convex Reformulation of Linear Stochastic Optimal Control With Chance Constraints},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {10},
  pages = {787--792},
  doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2026.3701076},
  note = {Volume 10, pages 787--792. Best student poster, annual DCL student symposium (2026)},
}

Maximal Controlled Invariant-MPC: Enhancing Feasibility and Reducing Conservatism through Terminal CBF Constraint in Safety-Critical Control

Tanmay Dokania, and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka

In AIAA SciTech Forum, 2027

Accepted. Finalist, AIAA GNC Graduate Student Paper Competition

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{dokania2027maximal,
  title = {Maximal Controlled Invariant-MPC: Enhancing Feasibility and Reducing Conservatism through Terminal CBF Constraint in Safety-Critical Control},
  author = {Dokania, Tanmay and Kumar Nakka, Yashwanth},
  booktitle = {AIAA SciTech Forum},
  year = {2027},
  note = {Accepted. Finalist, AIAA GNC Graduate Student Paper Competition},
}

Professional Service

I have reviewed papers for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), IEEE Control Systems Letters (LCSS), the iSpaRo conference, and the AIAA SciTech Forum.