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General Information
| Full Name | Tanmay Dokania |
| Languages | English, Hindi |
Education
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2024-2029 PhD in Robotics
Georgia Institute of Technology - Aerospace Engineering department; Astro-X Lab
- Third-year PhD student
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2020-2024 Bachelors of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - Electrical Engineering with Honors (GPA 9.91/10)
Experience
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2024-25 Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology - Project - Learning Set Representation using Kernel Functions
- Guide - Prof. Particio Vela
- Generate a function whose level set gives a boundary between the given in- and out-samples using a linear optimizer.
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2022-23 Research Assistant
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - Project - Consensus for Nonholonomic Multiagent System using Projected Gradients
- Guide - Prof. Ravi Banavar
- To extend geometric controllers for single agent to multiagent systems and achieve position-consensus
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2023 Research Intern
University of Toronto - Project - Safety Guarantees in Imitation Learning
- Guide - Prof. Florian Shkurti
- To design an online filter for the control inputs to avoid unsafe states, which improves iteratively
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2022-23 Research Assistant
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - Project - Bearing-based Formation Control for Obstacle Avoidance
- Guide - Prof. Dwaipayan Mukherjee
- To design decentralized controllers for obstacle avoidance based on the measured bearing of the obstacles while retaining a desired formation.
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2023 Research Intern
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) - Project - Angular Momentum-based Steering Laws for Control of CMGs
- Guide - Dr. Abhilash Mony
- To analyze existing angular momentum-based approaches for singularity avoidance of Control Moment Gyrscopes, which are observed when the space of torque inputs reduces dimensionally
Publications
- Tanmay Dokania and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka.
socx: GPU-Accelerated Chance-Constrained Stochastic Optimal Control using JAX. Submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; under review. - Sachin Sunil Kelkar, Tanmay Dokania, and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka. Risk-Aware Kinodynamic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty For Safe Navigation on Planetary Environments. Submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; under review.
- Tanmay Dokania and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka. Exact and Approximate Convex Reformulation of Linear Stochastic Optimal Control With Chance Constraints. IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 10, pp. 787–792, 2026. DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2026.3701076. Best student poster, annual DCL student symposium (2026).
- Tanmay Dokania and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka. Maximal Controlled Invariant-MPC: Enhancing Feasibility and Reducing Conservatism through Terminal CBF Constraint in Safety-Critical Control. Accepted at AIAA SciTech Forum 2027. Finalist, AIAA GNC Graduate Student Paper Competition.
Professional Service
- Reviewer for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- Reviewer for IEEE Control Systems Letters (LCSS)
- Reviewer for the iSpaRo conference
- Reviewer for the AIAA SciTech Forum
Skills
- Programming: Python, C++, MATLAB, CUDA
- Tools: ROS2, ROS, Git, LaTeX
- Libraries: NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow