Soummya Kar

The Buhl Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Bio

Soummya Kar is the Buhl Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a B.Tech. in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in May 2005 and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2010. From June 2010 to May 2011, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. His research interests include decision-making in large-scale networked systems, stochastic systems, multi-agent systems and data science, with applications in cyber-physical systems and smart energy systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Education

Ph.D., 2010 
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Carnegie Mellon University

BTech, 2005 
Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering 
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Research

My interest spans several aspects of stochastic adaptive control, decision-making, learning and inference in large-scale networked dynamical systems. Major technical thrust areas include stochastic analysis, distributed stochastic approximation, distributed algorithms, large deviations. Application domains include power networks and smart energy systems. 

Keywords

• Distributed information processing
• Multi-agent decision making
• Stochastic systems
• Network science
• Control Theory
• Statistical Signal Processing