Shalabh Bhatnagar
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IEEE Fellow (2025)
Shalabh Bhatnagar | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Actor-critic algorithm, Stochastic Approximation |
| Awards | J.C.Bose National Fellow (2020), IEEE Fellow (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Reinforcement Learning, Stochastic Approximation, Optimization |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Science |
| Website | csa.iisc.ac.in/~shalabh/index.html |
Shalabh Bhatnagar (born 1968) is an Indian professor of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He is the convenor of the Stochastic Systems Laboratory and an associate faculty member at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber‑Physical Systems at IISc. His research spans stochastic approximation, reinforcement learning, and simulation optimization, with applications in vehicular traffic control, smart grids, and communication networks.
Born in 1968, Bhatnagar earned his the Bachelors degree (Hons.) in physics from the University of Delhi, Delhi, India, in 1988. Masters and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science in 1992 and 1998 respectively. He held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, during 1997 to 2000 and at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, during 2000-2001. He was subsequently a Visiting Faculty Member at IIT Delhi before joining IISc as an Assistant Professor in December 2001. Since 2011, Bhatnagar has served as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at IISc Bangalore.[1]
Research contributions
He leads the Stochastic Systems Laboratory,[2] where his group develops reinforcement learning algorithms-particularly actor-critic and simulation‑based optimization methods-for complex stochastic systems. His group has applied these methods to vehicular traffic signal control[3] and wireless network optimization.[4]
Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editors at IEEE Control Systems Letters′[5] and Systems and Control Letters.[6]
