Research output

Publications

Selected and recent work across trustworthy AI, distributed and federated learning, optimization, control, and estimation. Google Scholar remains the canonical source for citation counts and indexing.

2026

Transactions on Machine Learning Research · July 2026

On-the-go Forgetting without Explicit Unlearning via ERASE

Kushal Chakrabarti, Mayank Baranwal

AISTATS 2026 · Poster

Securing Model Weights Against Eavesdropping Adversaries in Federated Learning Using Quantization

Kushal Chakrabarti, Dipankar Maity

UAI 2026 · Accepted

Quantized Stochastic Primal–Dual Methods for Distributed Optimization under Relaxed Global Geometry

Susmit Sarkar, Abhinav Raghuvanshi, Kushal Chakrabarti, Mayank Baranwal

IJCNN 2026 · Accepted

Enhancing Robustness of Federated Learning via Server Learning

Van Sy Mai, Richard J. La, Kushal Chakrabarti, Dipankar Maity

IEEE CDC 2026 · Accepted

Distributed Algorithm for Linear Least Squares Problems via Iteratively Preconditioning by Successive Over-Relaxation

Tianchen Liu, Kushal Chakrabarti

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control · 2026

System-Level Protection of Preconditioned PI Consensus Algorithms Against Eavesdropping Adversaries via Innovation-Shared Inter-Agent Communication

Kushal Chakrabarti et al.

2025

IEEE CDC 2025

On Model Protection in Federated Learning against Eavesdropping Attacks

Dipankar Maity, Kushal Chakrabarti

2024

Preprint

Distributed Optimization via Energy Conservation Laws in Dilated Coordinates

Kushal Chakrabarti, Mayank Baranwal

IEEE Control Systems Letters · Vol. 8

Novel Iteratively Preconditioned Gradient-Descent Algorithm via Successive Over-Relaxation Formulation

Tianchen Liu, Kushal Chakrabarti, Nikhil Chopra

ECAI 2024

A Methodology Establishing Linear Convergence of Adaptive Gradient Methods under PL Inequality

Kushal Chakrabarti, Mayank Baranwal

IEEE Control Systems Letters · Vol. 8

On Convergence of the Iteratively Preconditioned Gradient-Descent (IPG) Observer

Kushal Chakrabarti, Nikhil Chopra

Automatica · Vol. 160

A Control Theoretic Framework for Adaptive Gradient Optimizers

Kushal Chakrabarti, Nikhil Chopra

2023

IEEE CDC 2023

Iteratively Preconditioned Gradient-Descent Approach for Moving Horizon Estimation Problems

Tianchen Liu, Kushal Chakrabarti, Nikhil Chopra

American Control Conference 2023

IPG Observer: A Newton-type Observer Robust to Measurement Noise

Kushal Chakrabarti, Nikhil Chopra

2022

IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems · Vol. 9(2)

On Pre-Conditioning of Decentralized Gradient-Descent when Solving a System of Linear Equations

Kushal Chakrabarti, N. Gupta, Nikhil Chopra

Automatica · Vol. 137

Iterative Pre-conditioning for Expediting the Distributed Gradient-Descent Method: The Case of Linear Least-Squares Problem

Kushal Chakrabarti, N. Gupta, Nikhil Chopra

2021

IEEE CDC 2021

Generalized AdaGrad (G-AdaGrad) and Adam: A State-Space Perspective

Kushal Chakrabarti, Nikhil Chopra

2020

American Control Conference 2020

Iterative Pre-conditioning to Expedite the Gradient-Descent Method

Kushal Chakrabarti, N. Gupta, Nikhil Chopra

IEEE Control Systems Letters · Vol. 5(6)

Robustness of Iteratively Pre-Conditioned Gradient-Descent Method: The Case of Distributed Linear Regression Problem

Kushal Chakrabarti, N. Gupta, Nikhil Chopra