About

Hi! I am a PhD student at MPI-SWS (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems), Germany. My advisor is Prof. Rupak Majumdar.

I completed B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology (India) in 2012 and M.Tech in System and Control from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India) in 2015. During my M.Tech, I was visiting TU-Berlin (Germany) for one semester (winter 2014-15) to work on my master thesis under the supervision of Anne-Kathrin Schmuck and Prof. Jörg Raisch.

I did an internship at MPI-SWS with Prof. Rupak Majumdar for three months in 2015, before joining as a PhD student with him in 2016.

Contact

MPI-SWS
Paul-Ehrlich-Straße
Building G 26
D-67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)631 9303 8527
Email: kmallik (at) m p i - s w s.org
Skype: kaushik_mallik

Research Interest

Invited Talks

• A Negotiation Framework for Distributed Reactive Synthesis, Games and Equilibria in System Design and Analysis (workshop), Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, USA.

Publications

Preprints

• Symbolic Control for Stochastic Systems via Finite Parity Games* with Rupak Majumdar, Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, and Sadegh Soudjani, 2021. Submitted to IEEE TAC and a shorter version appeared in the proceedings of ADHS 2021.
• Fast Symbolic Algorithms for Omega-Regular Games under Strong Transition Fairness* with Tamajit Banerjee, Rupak Majumdar, Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, and Sadegh Soudjani, 2021. MPI Technical Report.

Journals and Book Chapters

• Abstraction-Based Control Design (Lecture Notes)* with Rupak Majumdar and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, Engineering Secure and Dependable Software Systems 53 (2019): 117.
• Compositional Synthesis of Finite-State Abstractions* with Rupak Majumdar, Anne-Kathrin Schmuck and Sadegh Soudjani, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018. (arXiv)
  
• Efficiency and cost optimized design of an induction motor using genetic algorithm with Srikumar Mallik, Amal Barman, Dipten Maiti, Sujit K Biswas, Nirmal K Deb, and Sujay Basu, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017.
  

Invited Papers

• Lazy Abstraction-Based Controller Synthesis* with Kyle Hsu, Rupak Majumdar, and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, ATVA '19.

Peer-reviewed Conferences and Workshops

• Symbolic Reach-Avoid Control of Multi-Agent Systems* with Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, and Mehrdad Zareian, ICCPS 2021. (PDF)
• Assume-Guarantee Distributed Synthesis* with Rupak Majumdar, Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, and Damien Zufferey, EMSOFT 2020. (PDF | talk video)
• Resilient Abstraction-Based Controller Design with Stanly Samuel, Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, and Daniel Neider, CDC 2020. (PDF | Poster)
• Accurate Abstractions for Controller Synthesis with Non-uniform Disturbances with Yunjun Bai, ICFEM 2020. (PDF)
• Symbolic Controller Synthesis for Büchi Specifications on Stochastic Systems* with Rupak Majumdar and Sadegh Soudjani, 2019. (arXiv | talk video) - Was nominated for the ACM SIGBED Best Paper Award at HSCC 2020
  
• Incremental Abstraction Computation for Symbolic Controller Synthesis in a Changing Environment with Yunjun Bai, Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, Damien Zufferey, and Rupak Majumdar, CDC '19. (PDF)
  
• Lazy Abstraction-Based Control for Safety Specifications* with Kyle Hsu, Rupak Majumdar and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, CDC '18. (arXiv)
  
• Lazy Abstraction-Based Control for Reachability* with Kyle Hsu, Rupak Majumdar and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck. (arXiv)
  
• Multi-Layered Abstraction-Based Controller Synthesis for Continuous-Time Systems* with Kyle Hsu, Rupak Majumdar and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, HSCC '18. (PDF)
  
• Compositional Construction of Finite State Abstractions for Stochastic Control Systems with Rupak Majumdar, Sadegh Esmaeil Zadeh Soudjani and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, CDC '17. (arXiv)
  
• Supervisory controller synthesis for decomposable deterministic context free specification languages with Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, WODES '16.
  

External links:

* Papers with alphabetically sorted list of authors. If you are wondering why this is meaningful, check out this 2004 statement of American Mathematical Society.

Tools

• Agnes: a tool for computing assume-guarantee contracts in a distributed reactive synthesis setting.
• Mascot: a tool for scalable correct-by-construction controller synthesis for continuous dynamical systems.
• Mascot-SDS: an extension of Mascot for synthesis of correct-by-construction controller for stochastic dynamical systems.

Teaching

• Logic and Verification Seminar (teaching assistant), TU-Kaiserslautern, Summer 2019.
• Complexity Theory (teaching assistant), TU-Kaiserslautern, Winter 2017-18.

Supervised Bachelor's/Master's Students

• Kyle Hsu, now at Stanford University, USA.
• Mehrdad Zareian, TU-Kaiserslautern, Germany.
• Tamajit Banerjee, IIT Delhi, India.
• Mateusz Rychlicki, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Professional Activities

• PC member: Posters/Demos HSCC '21.
• Conference reviewer: CDC {'20, '19, '18, '17}, ACC '19, ECC '19.
• Conference sub-reviewer: FSTTCS '20, HSCC {'19, '18}, ATVA '19, CAV '19.
• Journal reviewer: IEEE TAC (2018), IEEE L-CSS (2020), SIAM SICON (2018), Springer DEDS (2018), Elsevier NAHS (2020, 2021).