Vedang M. Deshpande

Vedang M. Deshpande
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  • Biography

    Vedang's research interests are in nonlinear and robust estimation and control of uncertain dynamic systems. His doctoral research focused on developing theoretical frameworks and algorithms for designing sparse sensing and actuation architectures with optimal instrument precisions. Prior to his doctoral studies, Vedang worked full-time in software verification and validation group at Honeywell Aerospace.

  • Recent News & Events

    •  NEWS    MERL researchers present 8 papers at ACC 2026
      Date: May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026
      Where: New Orleans, USA
      MERL Contacts: Scott A. Bortoff; Vedang M. Deshpande; Stefano Di Cairano; Christopher R. Laughman; Jordan Leung; Hongtao Qiao; Zhaolin Ren; Abraham P. Vinod; Yebin Wang
      Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, Optimization, Robotics
      Brief
      • MERL researchers presented 8 papers at the recently concluded American Control Conference (ACC) 2026 in New Orleans, USA. The papers covered a wide range of topics including robust controllable set computation, vapor compression cycle calibration, task-reasoning LLM agents, Minkowski-cost stable MPC, polynomial chaos approximation, invariant-set motion planning, heat-pump MPC architectures, and relaxed barrier-function MPC. Additionally, Zhaolin Ren was an invited speaker at Multi-Agent Dynamic Games workshop, and Abraham Vinod served as a panelist at the Professional Development and Career Advice for Young Professionals session.

        As a sponsor of the conference, MERL maintained a booth for open discussions with researchers and students, and hosted a special session to discuss highlights of MERL research and work philosophy.
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    •  NEWS    MERL researchers present 13 papers at ACC 2025
      Date: July 8, 2025 - July 10, 2025
      Where: Denver, USA
      MERL Contacts: Vedang M. Deshpande; Stefano Di Cairano; Purnanand Elango; Jordan Leung; Saviz Mowlavi; Abraham P. Vinod; Yebin Wang; Avishai Weiss
      Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, Electric Systems, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, Robotics
      Brief
      • MERL researchers presented 13 papers at the recently concluded American Control Conference (ACC) 2025 in Denver, USA. The papers covered a wide range of topics including Bayesian optimization for personalized medicine, machine learning for battery performance in eVTOLs, model predictive control for space and building systems, process systems engineering for sustainability, GNSS-RTK optimization, convex set manipulation, PDE control, servo system modeling, battery fault diagnosis, truck fleet coordination, interactive motion planning, and satellite station keeping. Additionally, MERL researchers (Vedang Deshpande and Ankush Chakrabarty) organized an invited session on design and optimization of energy systems.

        As a sponsor of the conference, MERL maintained a booth for open discussions with researchers and students, and hosted a special session to discuss highlights of MERL research and work philosophy.
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  • MERL Publications

    •  Zinage, S., Dixit, V., Chakrabarty, A., Qiao, H., Laughman, C.R., Bilionis, I., Deshpande, V.M., "Sequential Model Calibration of Vapor Compression Cycles using Approximate Bayesian Computation", American Control Conference (ACC), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-061 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Zinage2026may,
      • author = {Zinage, Shrenik and Dixit, Vaibhav and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Qiao, Hongtao and Laughman, Christopher R. and Bilionis, Ilias and Deshpande, Vedang M.},
      • title = {{Sequential Model Calibration of Vapor Compression Cycles using Approximate Bayesian Computation}},
      • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-061}
      • }
    •  Chakrabarty, A., Wichern, G., Deshpande, V.M., Vinod, A.P., Berntorp, K., Laughman, C.R., "Meta-Learning for Physically-Constrained Neural System Identification", Neurocomputing, DOI: 10.1016/​j.neucom.2025.130945, Vol. 651, pp. 130945, October 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-159 PDF
      • @article{Chakrabarty2025nov,
      • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Wichern, Gordon and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Vinod, Abraham P. and Berntorp, Karl and Laughman, Christopher R.},
      • title = {{Meta-Learning for Physically-Constrained Neural System Identification}},
      • journal = {Neurocomputing},
      • year = 2025,
      • volume = 651,
      • pages = 130945,
      • month = nov,
      • doi = {10.1016/j.neucom.2025.130945},
      • issn = {0925-2312},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-159}
      • }
    •  Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., Laughman, C.R., Qiao, H., "A Dynamic Analysis of Refrigerant Mass in Vapor Compression Cycles", International Modelica Conference, DOI: 10.3384/​ecp218345, September 2025, pp. 345-352.
      BibTeX TR2025-135 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Bortoff2025sep,
      • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Laughman, Christopher R. and Qiao, Hongtao},
      • title = {{A Dynamic Analysis of Refrigerant Mass in Vapor Compression Cycles}},
      • booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16thInternational Modelica & FMI Conference},
      • year = 2025,
      • pages = {345--352},
      • month = sep,
      • publisher = {Linköping University Electronic Press},
      • doi = {10.3384/ecp218345},
      • issn = {1650-3740},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-135}
      • }
    •  Deshpande, V.M., Vinod, A.P., "Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Spatio-temporal Monitoring of Water Bodies", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA53793.2025.11151521, August 2025, pp. 673-680.
      BibTeX TR2025-117 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Deshpande2025aug,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Vinod, Abraham P.},
      • title = {{Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Spatio-temporal Monitoring of Water Bodies}},
      • booktitle = {2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
      • year = 2025,
      • pages = {673--680},
      • month = aug,
      • doi = {10.1109/CCTA53793.2025.11151521},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-117}
      • }
    •  Chakrabarty, A., Vanfretti, L., Wang, Y., Mineyuki, T., Zhan, S., Tang, W.-T., Paulson, J.A., Deshpande, V.M., Bortoff, S.A., Laughman, C.R., "Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation", Building Simulation, DOI: 10.1007/​s12273-025-1260-8, April 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-043 PDF
      • @article{Chakrabarty2025apr,
      • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Vanfretti, Luigi and Wang, Ye and Mineyuki, Takuma and Zhan, Sicheng and Tang, Wei-Ting and Paulson, Joel A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bortoff, Scott A. and Laughman, Christopher R.},
      • title = {{Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation}},
      • journal = {Building Simulation},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = apr,
      • doi = {10.1007/s12273-025-1260-8},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-043}
      • }
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  • Other Publications

    •  Vedang M. Deshpande, Raktim Bhattacharya and Kamesh Subbarao, "Sensor Placement With Optimal Precision for Temperature Estimation of Battery Systems", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 6, pp. 1082-1087, 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{deshpande2022battery,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim and Subbarao, Kamesh},
      • title = {Sensor Placement With Optimal Precision for Temperature Estimation of Battery Systems},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2022,
      • volume = 6,
      • pages = {1082--1087}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: An Integrated Framework for $H_2/H_infty$ Optimal Observer Design", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 481-486, 2021.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{deshpande2021h2hinf,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: An Integrated Framework for $\mathcal{H}_2/\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ Optimal Observer Design},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 5,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {481--486}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing Architectures with Optimal Precision for Tracking Multi-agent Systems in Sensing-denied Environments", 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), 2021, pp. 1571-1576.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2021multiAgent,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing Architectures with Optimal Precision for Tracking Multi-agent Systems in Sensing-denied Environments},
      • booktitle = {2021 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {1571--1576}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: Robust $H_infty$ Optimal Observer Design with Model Uncertainty", 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), 2021, pp. 4105-4110.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2021robustHinf,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: Robust $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ Optimal Observer Design with Model Uncertainty},
      • booktitle = {2021 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {4105--4110}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande, Raktim Bhattacharya and Diego A. Donzis, "A unified framework to generate optimized compact finite difference schemes", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 432, pp. 110157, 2021.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{deshpande2021unified,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim and Donzis, Diego A.},
      • title = {A unified framework to generate optimized compact finite difference schemes},
      • journal = {Journal of Computational Physics},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 432,
      • pages = 110157,
      • url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999121000498}
      • }
    •  Sunsoo Kim, Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Robust Kalman Filtering With Probabilistic Uncertainty in System Parameters", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 295-300, 2021.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{kim2021robustKalman,
      • author = {Kim, Sunsoo and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Robust Kalman Filtering With Probabilistic Uncertainty in System Parameters},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 5,
      • number = 1,
      • pages = {295--300}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Surrogate Modeling of Dynamics From Sparse Data Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions", 2020 American Control Conference (ACC), 2020, pp. 4046-4051.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2020maxent,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Surrogate Modeling of Dynamics From Sparse Data Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions},
      • booktitle = {2020 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {4046--4051}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Data-driven Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 7234-7239, 2020.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{deshpande2020maxentSDE,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Data-driven Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions},
      • journal = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
      • year = 2020,
      • volume = 53,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {7234--7239},
      • note = {21st IFAC World Congress},
      • url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896320308557}
      • }
    •  Vedang Deshpande, Niladri Das, Vaishnav Tadiparthi and Raktim Bhattacharya, "On Neural Network Training from Noisy Data using a Novel Filtering Framework", 2020, AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inbook{deshpande2020neural,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang and Das, Niladri and Tadiparthi, Vaishnav and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {On Neural Network Training from Noisy Data using a Novel Filtering Framework},
      • booktitle = {AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum},
      • year = 2020,
      • url = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2020-1869}
      • }
    •  Sunsoo Kim, Vedang Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "$H_2$ Optimized PID Control of Quad-Copter Platform with Wind Disturbance", 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, pp. 839-844.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{kim2020h2pid,
      • author = {Kim, Sunsoo and Deshpande, Vedang and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {$\mathcal{H}_{2}$ Optimized PID Control of Quad-Copter Platform with Wind Disturbance},
      • booktitle = {2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {839--844}
      • }
    •  Niladri Das, Vedang Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Optimal-Transport-Based Tracking of Space Objects Using Range Data from a Single Ranging Station", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 1237-1249, 2019.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{das2019otTracking,
      • author = {Das, Niladri and Deshpande, Vedang and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Optimal-Transport-Based Tracking of Space Objects Using Range Data from a Single Ranging Station},
      • journal = {Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics},
      • year = 2019,
      • volume = 42,
      • number = 6,
      • pages = {1237--1249},
      • url = {https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G003796}
      • }

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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "System and Method for Controlling an Operation of a Vapor Compression Cycle"
      Inventors: Deshpande, Vedang; Chinchilla, Raphael; Chakrabarty, Ankush; Laughman, Christopher
      Patent No.: 12,510,278
      Issue Date: Dec 30, 2025
    • Title: "System and Method for Monitoring an Operation of a Vapor Compression Cycle"
      Inventors: Laughman, Christopher; Deshpande, Vedang
      Patent No.: 12,366,395
      Issue Date: Jul 22, 2025
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