Dr. Avimanyu Sahoo

Associate Professor, ECE

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Engineering Building
Room 263H
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.3581
avimanyu.sahoo@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Avimanyu Sahoo joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor. Prior
to joining the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Dr. Sahoo was an Associate Professor (mechatronics) at
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. He received a Masters of Technology (MTech) and Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, and Missouri University of Science
and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA, in 2015.

Dr. Sahoo’s research interest includes learning-based control and its applications in cyber-physical systems,
electric machinery health monitoring, lithium-ion battery pack modeling, diagnostics, and prognostics. Currently,
his research focuses on developing computation and communication efficient distributed intelligent control
schemes for cyber-physical systems using approximate dynamic programming, reinforcement learning, adaptive
state estimation, and intelligent battery management systems (BMS) for lithium-ion battery packs used onboard electric vehicles.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website

Education

  • Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, Missouri S&T, 2015
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), 2011

Honors & Awards

  • University Assessment and Testing Award for Excellence in Academic Program Assessment for demonstrating innovation, excellence, and dedication to program outcomes assessment planning, reporting, and implementation, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 2020-2021.
  • 2021: College of Engineering Architecture and Technology Faculty Award for Leadership and Abiding Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Awareness, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, April 22, 2021.
  • Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi Gold Medal, First Position in the Masters of Technology Examination at Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, 2011
  • Associate Editor of the Nonlinear Control in the Frontiers in Control Engineering Journal since 2020.

Recent Publications

  • Hossen, Md Sazzad, Avimanyu Sahoo, Satadru Dey, and Tanvir R. Tanim. "Chemistry-transferable physics-informed neural network surrogate for lithium-ion cells with online continual learning", Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 182, Art. no. 124759, 2026. doi: 10.1016/j.est.2026.124759

  • Faysal, Atik, Mohammad Rostami, Nikhil Muralidhar, Avimanyu Sahoo, and Huaxia Wang. "Maximizing unlabeled data utility with improved representation learning and pseudo labeling", IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 2026. doi: 10.1109/OJCS.2026.3712699

  • Faysal, Atik, Mohammad Rostami, Huaxia Wang, Avimanyu Sahoo, and Ryan Antle. "MetaRep: Improving meta-learning accuracy by learning episodic representation", International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2026. doi: 10.1007/s13042-025-02917-1

  • Dey, Ritirupa, Avimanyu Sahoo, and Vignesh Narayanan. "Safe data-enabled control of human-in-the-loop robotic manipulator systems", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 22, no. 2, 2026. doi: 10.1109/TII.2025.3628219

  • Sahoo, Avimanyu, and Vignesh Narayanan. "Co-synthesizing communication and control for cyber-physical systems", 2026 European Control Conference (ECC), Iceland, pp. 2970–2975, 2026. 

  • Hossen, Md Sazzad, and Avimanyu Sahoo. "Hierarchical multi-scale graph neural networks: Scalable heterophilous learning with oversmoothing and oversquashing mitigation", Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Seoul, South Korea, 2026. 

  • Alam, Saima, Vignesh Narayanan, and Avimanyu Sahoo. "Laplacian-based modeling and identification of thermal interactions in lithium-ion battery packs", 2026 European Control Conference (ECC), Iceland, pp. 1690–1695, 2026.

  • Shaan, Mahtab Noor, Vignesh Narayanan, and Avimanyu Sahoo. "Resource constrained safe reinforcement learning for lane following of wheeled mobile robots", 2026 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Maastricht, Netherlands, pp. 1–6, 2026. 

  • Shaon, Shaba, Atit Pokharel, Alexander Coutras, Avimanyu Sahoo, and Dinh C. Nguyen. "Resource-efficient distributed quantum learning over wireless networks with qubit reuse", 2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 1–6, 2026. doi: 10.1109/CCNC65079.2026.11366593

  • Dey, Ritirupa, Avimanyu Sahoo, and Vignesh Narayanan. "Safe adaptive output tracking controller for robotic manipulators", 2026 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Maastricht, Netherlands, pp. 1–6, 2026.