Dr. Sandeep Kumar Soni
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
sandeepsoni@iitbhilai.ac.in
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
Research Interest
- Autonomous Systems
- Multiagent Systems
- Time Delay Systems
- Learning-based Control
- Control Application for Power Electronics and Robotics
Research Opportunities
- I am looking for motivated and passionate researchers to join my research group at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai in the areas of control systems and their applications. Interested candidates are welcome to contact me at sandeepsoni@iitbhilai.ac.in.
Academic Background
- Ph.D. (2021), Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India
- M.Tech (2013), Electrical Engineering, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute Mumbai, India
- B.Tech (2009), Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University Bhilai, India
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor (March 2026 - till Date), Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
- Assistant Professor (August 2025 - March 2026), Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Assistant Professor (June 2023 - August 2025), Electrical Engineering Department, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Delhi NCR, India
- Postdoctoral Fellow (January 2022 - May 2023), Department of Automatic Control, INSA Centre Val de Loire Bourges, France
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Awards and Accolades
- Awarded Second Best Paper at the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET-2023), organized at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, INDIA
- Young Researcher Award 2023 by Institute of Researchers (InRes)
- Vivekanand Prize 2023 by Institute of Researchers (InRes)
Administrative Responsibilities
- Member (April 2026 - Ongoing) of Department Purchase Committee (DPC), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, INDIA
- Convenor of UDAAN 2026 Sports Committee (Annual Sports, Cultural and Technical Fest), Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Member (December 2025 - March 2026) of Teacher's Grievances Redressal Committee, Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Convenor (July 2024 - August 2025) of Department Social Media Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR, India
- Member (February 2025 - March 2026) of Steering Committee of IEEE UP Section Control System Society Chapter, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Publicity Chair of 1st International Conference on Innovation in Computing and Engineering (ICE 2025) held at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR, India
- Member of organising committee of 8th International Conference on Advances In Control And Optimization Of Dynamic Systems (ACODS 2024) held at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR, India
Journal Publications
- Sonali Singh, Ankit Sachan, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Rajvardhan Jigyasu, and Sunil Kumar, “An Algorithmic Recipe to Construct Lyapunov Functions for Nonlinear Sectors with Quantization Mismatch,” Asian Journal of Control, pp. 1-15, 2026, doi: 10.1002/asjc.70102.
- Sunil Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Shyam Kamal, and Mohamed Djemai, “Observer Design for Multi-Output Systems with Predefined-Time Convergence,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 8, pp. 2175–2180, 2024.
- Sunil Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Soni, and Shyam Kamal, “Predefined-Time Frequency Estimation of Biased Sinusoidal Signals,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 2369–2373, 2024.
- Ankit Sachan, Sonali Singh, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Jitendra Kumar Goyal, and Shubhi Singh, 2024, “Supervisory-based Quantized Hands-off Control for a Class of Uncertain Systems with Nonlinear Sector,” International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 300–316, 2024.
- Ankit Sachan, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Jitendra Kumar Goyal, Kranthi Kumar Deveerasetty, and Xiaogong Xiong, 2024, “Quantizer-based Hands-off Control for Robust [K,KL] sector,” International Journal of Control, vol. 97, no. 5, 2024.
- Sunil Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, and Xiaogang Xiong, “Nonlinear Polytopic Systems with Predefined Time Convergence,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 632–636, 2024.
- Siyuan Wang, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Gang Zheng, and Driss Boutat, “Application-Oriented Homogeneous Control Protocol Design for Multi-Agent Systems Under Input Constraints,” Guidance, Navigation and Control, vol. 03, no. 03, pp. 2350014, 2023.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Kumar Abhishek Singh, Saumya Singh, Ankit Sachan, and Xiaogang Xiong, “Event-Triggered Control for LPV Modeling of DC-DC Boost Converter,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 2062–2066, 2023.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Shyam Kamal, Sandip Ghosh, and Sorin Olaru, “Finite-Time Stabilization of Nonlinear Polytopic Systems: A Control Lyapunov Function Approach,” IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 219–234, 2022.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Ankit Sachan, Shyam Kamal, Sandip Ghosh, and Xiaogang Xiong, “Delayed Output Feedback based Leaderless and Leader-follower Consensus Control of Uncertain Multiagent Systems,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 15, no. 15, pp. 1956–1970, 2021.
- Ankit Sachan, Kranthi Kumar, and Sandeep Kumar Soni, “Design of Nonlinear Sectors with Comparison Functions,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 2251–2255, 2021.
- Ankit Sachan, Xiaogang Xiong, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Shyam Kamal, and Sandip Ghosh, “Quantized-feedback Hands-off Control for Nonlinear Systems,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 15, no. 10, 2021.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Shyam Kamal, and Sandip Ghosh, “Delayed Output Feedback Sliding Mode Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 14, no. 15, pp. 2106–2115, 2020.
- Sandeep Soni, Shyam Kamal, Xinghuo Yu, and Sandip Ghosh, “Global Stabilization of Uncertain SISO Dynamical Systems Using a Multiple Delayed Partial State Feedback Sliding Mode Control,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1259–1263, 2019.
Conference Publications
- Aanchal Surjewala, Kirshan Kumar Gautam, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Amitabh Chatterjee, Devendra Kataria, and Dinkar Prasad,2025, “Design and Performance Analysis of a Two-Switch Forward Converter with RC Snubber for Battery Charging Applications,” 1st IEEE International Conference on Innovation in Computing and Engineering (ICE 2025), Greater Noida, India, pp. 1–5, 2025
- Himanshu Sekhar Sahu, Sandeep Kumar Soni, “Maximizing Output Power of a PV Array Under Non-Uniform Solar Irradiation Conditions,” TENCON 2024 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Singapore, pp. 1002–1005, 2024.
- Shlok Kamat, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Himanshu Sekhar Sahu, “Blockchain-Enabled Game Theory Approach for Distributed Generation,” TENCON 2024 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Singapore, pp. 591–59, 2024.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Sunil Kumar, Ankit Sachan, Jitendra Kumar Goyal, and Mohamed Djemai, “Fast-terminal Super-twisting Control for Quadrotor UAVs Landing on Moving Ship,” 17th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS 2024), Dubai, UAE, pp. 292–297, 2024.
- Sonali Singh, Ankit Sachan, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Jitendra Kumar Goyal and Subhi Pawar, “Fast-terminal Super-twisting Control Applications to Quadrotor UAV,” 8th International Conference on Advances In Control And Optimization Of Dynamic Systems (ACODS 2024), Delhi NCR, India, pp. 214–219, 2024.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Saumya Singh, Sunil Kumar, Himanshu Sekhar Sahu, and R.K. Saket, “Solar-to-Vehicle Charging with Maximum Power Point Tracking using Super-Twisting Controller,” International Transportation Electrification Conference (iTEC 2023), Chennai, India, pp. 1–6, 2023.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Garima Soni, Siyuan Wang, Driss Boutat, Mohamed Djemai, Sorin Olaru, and Daniel Geha, “Predefined-Time Leader-Following Formation Control of Nonlinear Multiagent Systems under Switching Topologies,” 22nd IFAC World Congress 2023, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 8815–8820, 2023.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Garima Soni, Driss Boutat, Mohamed Djemai, Sorin Olaru, Johann Reger, and Daniel Geha, “Distributed Observer-Based Time-Varying Formation Control Under Switching Topologies,” 21st European Control Conference (ECC 2023), Bucharest, Romania, pp. 1–6, 2023.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Siyuan Wang, Ankit Sachan, Driss Boutat, and Mohamed Djemai, “A Multiple Lyapunov Functions Approach for Formation Tracking Control,” 13th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control(SYROCO 2022), Matsumoto, Japan, pp. 184–189, 2022.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Sunil Kumar, Siyuan Wang, Ankit Sachan, and Driss Boutat, “Sliding Mode Event-Triggered Tracking Control for Robot Manipulators with State Constraints,” 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2022), Brussels, Belgium, pp. 1–6, 2022.
- Sunil Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Ankit Sachan, Shyam Kamal, and Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, “Adaptive Super-Twisting Guidance Law: An Event-Triggered Approach,” 16th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS 2022), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 190--195, 2022.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Zakaria El Hamdaoui, Siyuan Wang, Driss Boutat, and Mohamed Djemai, “Event-Triggered Sliding Mode Control to Manipulate a Microrobot with Two-Magnet System under Input Constraint,” 16th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS 2022), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 225--230, 2022.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Kumar Abhishek Singh, Saumya Singh, Ankit Sachan, and Xiaogang Xiong, “Event-Triggered Control for DC-DC Boost Converters,” 23rd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2022), Shanghai, China, pp. 1--6, 2022.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Ankit Sachan, Shyam Kamal, Sandip Ghosh, and Kalyana C. Veluvolu, “Event-Triggered Control for DC-DC Boost Converters,” IFAC Control Conference Africa (CCA 2021), Magaliesburg, South Africa, vol. 54, no. 21, pp. 168--173, 2021.
- Sandeep Kumar Soni, Ankit Sachan, Shyam Kamal, Sandip Ghosh, and Mohamed Djemai, “Leader-following Formation Control of Second-order Autonomous Unmanned Systems under Switching Topologies,” 60th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE 2021), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 779-784. 2021.
Book Chapters
- J.K. Goyal, A. Suresh, A. Kaushik, M. Santosh,N. Amutha Prabha, A. Sachan, S.K. Soni, and C. Aravind, “Design of Static Output Feedback Controller for Positive Systems,” Artificial Intelligence in Instrumentation, Control and Automation, Wiley, pp. 277–287, 2026, ISBN: 9781394336135.
- J.K. Goyal, J. Harshavardhan, Y.R. Dhote, P.P Katkar, N. Amutha Prabha, A. Sachan, S.K. Soni, and S.K. Phang, “Model Free Robust Controller Design for Half Quad Rotor Aero System: An Experimental Study,” Artificial Intelligence in Instrumentation, Control and Automation, Wiley, pp. 289–305, 2026, ISBN: 9781394336135.
- S. Singh, D. Dwivedi, S. K. Soni, R.K. Saket, and D.P. Kothari, “Reliability Assessment of Sub-components of Electric Vehicle for Performance Enhancement Grid Integrated Power System,” Reliability Analysis of Modern Power Systems, Wiley, pp. 427–449, 2024, ISBN: 9781394226740.
- K.A. Singh, S.K. Soni, A. Sachan, and K. Chaudhari, “PWM-based Proxy Sliding Mode Controller for DC-DC Buck Converters,” Modelling, Simulation and Intelligent Computing (MoSICom), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, Singapore, vol. 659, 2020, ISBN: 978-981-15-4775-1.