Carnegie Mellon University

Soummya Kar

Soummya Kar (E 2010)

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Porter Hall B18
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Soummya Kar 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. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 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. 

Education

Ph.D, Electrical and Computer Engineering 

BTech, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering

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. 

Publications

  • A. Tajer, S. Kar, and H.V. Poor, "Distributed state estimation: a learning-based framework," in Smart Grid Communications and Networking, Ekram Hossain, Zhu Han, and H. Vincent Poor, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • L. Xie, D.H. Choi, S. Kar, and H.V. Poor, "Bad data detection in smart grid: a distributed approach," in Smart Grid Communications and Networking, Ekram Hossain, Zhu Han, and H. Vincent Poor, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • U.A. Khan, S. Kar, and J.M.F. Moura, “Distributed algorithms in sensor networks,” in Handbook on Sensor and Array Processing, Simon Haykin and K. J. Ray Liu, Eds. Wiley-Interscience, 2009.
  • Y. Chen, S. Kar, and J.M.F. Moura, "Cyber physical attacks with control objectives," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1 - 1, May 2018.
  • Y. Yang, P. Grover, and S. Kar, "Rate distortion for lossy in-network linear function computation and consensus: distortion accumulation and sequential reverse water-filling," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 5179 - 5206, Aug. 2017.

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