**Shyam Kamal**

Shyam Kamal received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya Haridwar, Uttrakhand, India in 2009, and Ph.D. in Systems and Control Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India in 2014. From 2015 to 2016, he was with the Department of Systems Design and Informatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan as a Project Assistant Professor. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He has published one monograph, four book chapters and 110 journal articles and conference papers. His research interests include the areas of nonlinear control and its applications. Particularly he is working on fractional-order systems, contraction analysis, discrete and continuous higher-order sliding mode control and multi-agent systems. He has received excellence awards in Ph.D. thesis from IIT Bombay in 2015 for his thesis "Sliding Mode Control of Fractional-order Systems" and INAE Young Engineer Award in 2019 for his research work. He is now an INAE Young Associate. He has also received honorary appointment as a Visiting professor from RMIT Melbourne Australia in July 2017 and in the duration of November and December 2019 and Visiting Professor from Harbin Institute of Technology China in August 2019.
