Soummya Kar

Soummya Kar is the Buhl Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He holds a Ph.D. (2010) and B.Tech (2005) in Electrical Engineering from CMU and IIT Kharagpur, respectively, and has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University (2010-2011).

• Research Interests: Decision-making in large-scale networked systems, stochastic systems, multi-agent control, and data science with applications in cyber-physical systems and smart energy grids.
• Scientific Awards:
  • IEEE Fellow (2022)
  • Dean’s Early Career Fellowship (2016)
  • Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation - Energy Fellow
• Recent Article Trends: His work focuses on distributed optimization, secure inference in sensor networks, smart grid resilience, and coded computing for fault tolerance, with keywords spanning Computer Science, Control Theory, and Energy Systems.
• Students & Team: He advises current and former Ph.D. students including Brian Swenson (Penn State), Javad Mohammadi (UT Austin), and Sergio Pequito (TU Delft), alongside postdoctoral researchers like Panayiotis Moutis.

His research involves collaborations with labs such as CyLab Security and Privacy Institute and the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.