The EnerBots Lab Team

Head: Prabir Barooah, Ph.D.

Prabir Barooah, UF, 2007

Prabir Barooah

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Professor, Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India - 781039.

email: pbarooah at iitg dot ac dot in.
Office location: Room 004, Core 2, Academic complex, Phone: +91-361-258-2521 (Office)

Prabir Barooah received his Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1999 to 2002 he was a research engineer at United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT. He received the M. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1999 and the B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1996. He was born in Jorhat, Assam, India. Dr. Barooah is the winner of the ASEE SE Section’s Outstanding Researcher Award (2013), NSF CAREER award (2010), General Chairs' Recognition Award for Interactive papers at the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2009), best paper award at the 2nd Int. Conf. on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (2005), and NASA group achievement award (2003).

Personal blog
prabirbarooah.com

"Op-ed" style posts

Current Postdoctoral scholars

Dr. Siddhanta Borah

About:

Dr. Borah received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from National Institute of Technology Nagaland in September 2023. From 2023 to 2024, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Assam Engineering College, Guwahati. In 2025, he joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Research:

Dr. Borah’s research interests focus on embedded hardware design for low-power applications, particularly in the fields of agriculture and robotics. He has been granted two patents and has published 11 research papers in international journals, presented 9 conference papers, and contributed to 2 book chapters.

Current PhD students

Narendra Sona

About:

Narendra received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Assam Engineering College, Jalukbari, Guwahati in July 2023. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at IIT Guwahati. His interests lie in solving complex engineering problems with a focus on energy systems and control. His hobbies include playing cricket and writing articles.

Research:

Control co-design of solar thermal vapor absorption refrigeration systems for cold storage applications.

Subhadeep Paul

About:

Subhadeep earned his Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Kharagpur College, Vidyasagar University, in 2020 and completed his Master’s in Electronics from Vidyasagar University in 2022. He worked as a project staff (JRF) at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology in Gandhinagar from September 2022 to July 2024. In July 2024, he began his PhD at the EnerBots Lab. He focuses his research on using computational and analytical methods to solve real-world engineering and research problems, drawing on his skills in programming, data analysis, and system-level thinking. Outside of work, he enjoys cycling, playing badminton, cooking, and photography.

Research:

Decentralized Coordination of Inverter Air-Conditioners for Virtual Energy Storage (VES)

Current Project Staff

Bishwajit Sarmah

Position:

Assistant Project Engineer

About:

Bishwajit Sarmah received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Assam Kaziranga University, Jorhat, Assam, in 2023. He joined Enerbots Lab on February 2025 and is currently working in the field of robotics. His hobbies include playing cricket and volleyball, as well as making soft toys. He also enjoys watching stories and narrating them in his own way.

Research:

River monitoring, Robotics

Bibek Das

Position:

Project Technician

About:

Bibek das received his ITI (NCVT) degree in the Electrician trade from Nemcare Model Industrial Training Institute, Mirza, Guwahati in 2024. He has experience working with autonomous UAVs, and he is also a very experienced drone pilot. He joined Enerbots Lab in June 2025 as Project Technician.

Alumni

Meesala Ganesh, M.Tech (2025)

Dissertation title: Development of a Small Unmanned Boat for Autonomous Navigation applications.

Current position: Turbine Operability Engineer, GE Vernova (as of May 2026).

Alumni from University of Florida

Zhong Guo, Ph.D. (2024)

Dissertation title:

Current position: Senior Controls Optimization Engineer, Trane Technologies (as of April 2026).

Austin Coffman, Ph.D. (2021)

Dissertation title: Capacity Estimation and Coordination of Flexible Loads for Grid Support.

Current position: Senior Data Scientist, BroadVail Capital Partners (as of April 2026).

Naren Srivaths Raman, Ph.D. (2021)

Dissertation title: Energy Efficient Control of Commercial Building HVAC Systems and Analysis for Grid Support

Current position: Senior Application Engineer, Mathworks, Inc. (as of August 2021).

Kendall Parker, Ph.D. (2021)

Dissertation title: Smart Grid Advancements Toward Enhanced Meter Privacy and Grid Reliability

Current position: ORISE Fellow with the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) at DOE Dept. of Energy (as of July 2021. ORISE: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education).

Tingting Zeng, Ph.D. (2021)

Dissertation title: Autonomous Data-Driven Control of Building HVAC systems.

Current position: R & D Engineer, Halliburton (As of March 2021).

Jonathan Brooks, Ph.D. (2017)

Dissertation title: Distributed Coordination of Smart Loads to Provide Ancillary Service to the Power Grid.

Current Position: Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept., University of Florida (as of Dec 2021).

Yashen Lin, Ph.D. (2013)

Dissertation title: Control of Commercial Building HVAC Systems for Power Grid Ancillary Service.

Current Position: Senior Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (as of Jan 2022).

Siddharth Goyal, Ph.D. (2013)

Dissertation title: Modeling and Control Algorithms ti Improve Energy Efficiency of Buildings.

Current Position: Director of Data Science, Divisions Maintenance Group (as of Jan 2022).

Joseph Knuth, Ph.D. (2013)

Dissertation title: A study of Single and Multi-Robot Localization: A Manifold Approach.

Current Position: Team Lead, Numerica Corporation (as of Jan 2018).

Chenda Liao, Ph.D. (2013)

Dissertation title: Distributed Time Synchronization from Relative Measurements in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks.

Current Position: Senior Research SDE, Microsoft (as of Jan 2022).

He Hao, Ph.D. (2012)

Dissertation title: Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems: Performance Scaling with Network Size.

Current Position: Tech Lead/Team Manager, Bing Ads (as of Jan 2022).