Aranya Chakrabortty

Brief Biography

Aranya Chakrabortty received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY in 2008. From 2008 to 2009 he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington Seattle, and from 2009 to 2010 he was an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University. Since 2010, Aranya has joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, where he is currently a Professor and the Associate Department Head for Research. From 2020 to 2024, Aranya served as a program director at the US National Science Foundation (NSF). He received the NSF CAREER award in 2011, the NSF director’s award for superior accomplishment in 2022, and the NC State University Faculty Scholar title from the Provost’s office in 2019. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Aranya’s research interests are in all areas of control theory, including robust, optimal, and adaptive control, with applications to electric power systems. His research group is currently studying various problems related to (1) wide-area control of power grids with renewables, (2) charging control of electric vehicles, (3) control with machine learning, and (4) cyber-security of power systems.

His latest CV can be found here.

New Papers & Results

• Electric vehicle charging controls considering grid stability – ACC, TCST
• Cyber-security of electric vehicle charging using deep learning neural networks – PESGM
• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: CSM
• Distributed reinforcement learning and control – TAC 2024, TCNS 2023
• Control of power systems with distributed energy resources – CSM

What’s Relatively New

• Aug. 2025 – My interview was published in the IEEE Control Systems Magazine in the “People in Control” column – link
• May 2025 – New paper on electric vehicle charging controls published in IEEE TCST – Arxiv
• Feb. 2025 – New DOE grant on hardware cyber-security lead by Aysu
• Jan. 2025 – I have been elevated to IEEE Fellow

Teaching

1. ECE 736: Power Systems Stability and Control – Spring semesters
2. ECE 726: Advanced Feedback Control (Optimal Control) – Fall semesters

Links

IEEE Explore, Sciencedirect, NASPI, FNET, IEEE PES, SAMSI, NSF, Phase-plane diagrams for nonlinear systems