Debasish Ghose

Debasish Ghose (born 16 May 1960) is a professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. having pioneered research on Intelligent control and multi-agents. He founded the first mobile robotics lab in India i.e. Mobile Robotics Laboratory at IISc in 2002. He is known for his early work in swarm intelligence, distributed computing and game theory. His primary research is in Guidance and control of autonomous vehicles, although, current interest is in Computational intelligence i.e. Machine Learning for Aerial Robotics.

Formerly, he has served as chair of the Department of Aerospace, IISc (2012–15) and convener of the Space Technology Cell (STC), ISRO-IISc.

He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles for nearly 4 years.

Education 1990 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD in Electrical Engineering), Indian Institute of Science. His specialization is in applied maths (game theory).

The alumni of the lab have gone on to work on various notable research projects in academia and industry.