Contact Dr Deepak Kumar Panda
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- Email: Deepak.Panda@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Autonomous Systems
- Safety, Resilience, Risk & Reliability
- Systems Engineering
Background
Dr Deepak Panda is a UKIC postdoctoral research fellow focusing on developing AI based security solutions for air traffic infrastructure. He works at the Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing (SATM) as a member of Human Machine Intelligence Group. He is also involved in teaching several modules in Applied AI MSc and Connected and Autonomous Vehicle MSc.
He obtained his PhD from University of Exeter in 2022, focusing on Applied AI and Control of Smart Grids.
He got his M.Tech in Industrial Automation and Control from National Institute of Technology, Calicut in 2016, after completing his graduation in Electrical Engineering (Power) from Jadavpur University in 2014.
He worked as Smart Factory Deployment Engineer in Schneider Electric Infrastructure Limited, India from 2016-18.
Research opportunities
My core research interest lies in developing robust and resilience of AI-enabled cyber-physical autonomous systems with a particular focus on adversarial and online learning
Current activities
Antifragile AI solutions for advanced air mobility.
Robust AI based UAV navigation against cyber-attacks
Clients
- Thales SA
- SAAB AB
- NATS Holdings
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Panda DK, Das S & Abusara M. (2025). Parametric study of adaptive reinforcement learning for battery operations in microgrids. Renewable Energy, 250
- Panda DK & Das S. (2025). Gaussian process digital twin for voltage stability analysis of complex power networks under perturbation. Expert Systems with Applications, 267
- Panda DK, Turner O, Das S & Abusara M. (2024). Prioritized experience replay based deep distributional reinforcement learning for battery operation in microgrids. Journal of Cleaner Production, 434
- Panda DK, Halder K, Das S & Townley S. (2024). Observer based decentralized load frequency control with false data injection attack for specified network quality and delay. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 186
- Panda DK & Guo W. (2024). Action robust reinforcement learning for air mobility deconfliction against conflict induced spoofing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 25(12)
- Panda D, Yara R, Nath SS, Mandal A & Mangipudi KR. (2024). Hierarchical Porous Cu with Trimodal Porosity Produced Through Investment Casting and Dealloying. JOM, 76(3)
- Panda DK, Panigrahi PK, Attar RW & Gupta BB. (2024). Open Source Adoption for Digital Transformation and Data Management During the COVID-19 Crisis. Journal of Database Management, 35(1)
- Kumar Panda D, Das S & Townley S. (2023). Hyperparameter optimized classification pipeline for handling unbalanced urban and rural energy consumption patterns. Expert Systems with Applications, 214
- Alyami L, Panda DK & Das S. (2023). Bayesian Noise Modelling for State Estimation of the Spread of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia with Extended Kalman Filters. Sensors, 23(10)
- Panda D, Mohanty I, Mandal A & Mangipudi KR. (2023). Uniaxial Compression Behavior of Open Cellular Materials with Spinodal Morphologies Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing. Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 76(2)
- Nayak V, Patra S, Singh KRB, Ganguly B, Kumar DN, .... (2023). Advancement in precision diagnosis and therapeutic for triple-negative breast cancer: Harnessing diagnostic potential of CRISPR-cas & engineered CAR T-cells mediated therapeutics. Environmental Research, 235
- Laidouci A, Mamta , Singh VN, Dakua PK & Panda DK. (2023). Performance evaluation of ZnSnN2 solar cells with Si back surface field using SCAPS-1D: A theoretical study. Heliyon, 9(10)
- Laidouci A, Dakua PK, Panda DK & Kashyap S. (2023). Investigating the potential of earth-abundant ZnSnxGe1-xN2 alloys for quantum well solar cells. Micro and Nanostructures, 184
- Panda DK, Das S & Townley S. (2022). Toward a More Renewable Energy-Based LFC Under Random Packet Transmissions and Delays With Stochastic Generation and Demand. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 19(2)
- Halder K, Panda DK, Das S, Das S & Gupta A. (2022). Specified QoS based networked observer and PI controller design with disturbance and noise rejection under random packet dropout. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 604
- Panda D & Mangipudi KR. (2022). The role of network topology on the uniaxial tensile behaviour of low density random open cellular structures. Materialia, 22
- Panda DK & Das S. (2021). Smart grid architecture model for control, optimization and data analytics of future power networks with more renewable energy. Journal of Cleaner Production, 301
- Panda DK & Das S. (2021). Economic operational analytics for energy storage placement at different grid locations and contingency scenarios with stochastic wind profiles. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 137
- Halder K, Das S, Panda DK, Das S & Gupta A. (2021). QoS aware joint observer and networked PI/PID controller design using LMIs under specified rate of packet dropouts. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 401
- Himanshu VK, Roy MP, Mishra AK, Paswan RK, Panda D, .... (2018). Multivariate statistical analysis approach for prediction of blast-induced ground vibration. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 11(16)
Conference Papers
- Conrad C, Tsourdos A, Panda DK, Guo W, Shamim M, .... (2025). Dynamic Non-Binary Prioritisation for UTM Resource Allocation
- Panda DK & Guo W. (2025). Generative adversarial evasion and out-of-distribution detection for UAV cyber-attacks
- Perrusquía A, Panda DK & Guo W. (2025). Interpreting and enhancing decisions in autonomous navigation: a belief-desire-intention reinforcement learning (BDI-RL) approach
- Conrad C, Xu Y, Panda DK & Tsourdos A. (2024). Simulating enhanced vertiport management in a multimodal transportation ecosystem
- Panda DK & Guo W. (2023). Fragility impact of RL based advanced air mobility under gradient attacks and packet drop constraints
- Conrad C, Xu Y, Panda DK & Tsourdos A. (2023). Intelligent vertiport traffic flow management for scalable advanced air mobility operations
- Bachu S, Garg T, Panda D, Reddy M, Ibrahim S, .... (2022). Multi-stage Attention-Pooling Network for Lane Marking Detection
- Ghosh S, Panda DK, Das S & Chatterjee D. (2021). Cross-Correlation Based Classification of Electrical Appliances for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
- Panda DK & Das S. (2021). Robust Bayesian Regression Model of Centrality and Voltage Stability Index for Power Networks under Nodal Attack
- Sadasivarao A, Syed S, Panda D, Gomes P, Rao R, .... (2020). Demonstration of Extensible Threshold-Based Streaming Telemetry for Open DWDM Analytics and Verification
- Panda DK & Das S. (2019). Regression Analysis of Grid Stability under Decentralized Control
- Panda DK & Ashok S. (2016). Sensorless speed estimation of linear induction motor under variable discrete loading using cascaded MRAS observer