WASIM AKRAM

Curriculum Vitae

CONTACT

Department of Mathematics Email: wakram2k11@[Link]

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Office: MH - 1/8
Nagpur, Maharashtra - 440010 Phone: (+91) 9716229956

EDUCATION

July 2017 - July 2023 Ph.D. in Mathematics — Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
Thesis title : Feedback Stabilization of Certain Evolution Equations and Its
Numerical Study
Advisor(s) : Prof. Debanjana Mitra and Prof. Neela Nataraj
CPI: 8.14/10

July 2015 - May 2017 [Link]. in Mathematics — Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
CPI: 8.3/10

July 2012 - May 2015 [Link].(H) in Mathematics — Department of Mathematics, Jamia Millia Is-
lamia, New Delhi
CGPA: 9.29/10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE(S)

July 2023 - Present (Adhoc) Assistant Professor — Department of Mathematics, Visvesvaraya

National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
Mar 2023 - July 2023 Research Associate — Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
Mentor(s): Prof. Debanjana Mitra and Prof. Neela Nataraj

RESEARCH AREA

Stabilizability of PDEs, Optimal control problems, FEM for control problems, Numerical Analysis.

PUBLICATIONS
1. Local stabilization of viscous Burgers equation with memory, with Debanjana Mitra, Evolution
Equations and Control Theory 11 (2022), no. 3, 939 - 973.
2. Feedback stabilization of parabolic coupled system and its numerical study, with Debanjana Mitra,
Neela Nataraj and Mythily Ramaswamy, Mathematical Control and Related Fields 14 (2024), no.
2, 695-746.
3. Feedback stabilization of viscous Burgers equation around non-constant steady state and its finite
element analysis, (under review) 2024.
4. Stabilization and convergence analysis of heat equation with memory using LQR design with Pavan
Kumar, Debanjana Mitra and Vivek Natarajan, (coming soon).
CONFERENCE/SEMINAR TALKS

6 Dec - 8 Dec 2022 Presented a talk (invited) in the 37th Annual Conference of Ramanujan
Mathematical Society held at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engi-
neering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

6 Sept - 8 Sept 2022 Presented a talk in International Conference on Computational Partial

Differential Equations and Applications (ICCPDEA-2022), held at B-
ML Munjal University, Haryana, India.

7 Dec - 10 Dec 2021 Presented a talk in The fourth BRICS Mathematics conference held at
IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

EXPERIENCE

July 2016 - Nov 2016 Wave propogation in shallow water ([Link]. Project).
Guide: Prof. Vishnu D Sharma
In this project we reviewed the literature about derivation of wave propoga-
tion in shallow water and its solution using Hodograph transformation and
Riemann Invariants.

TEACHING

Summer 2024 MAL 205, Numerical Analysis and Probability Theory, [Link] second year
course at VNIT Nagpur (currently teaching).
Summer 2024 MAL 102, Mathematics II, [Link] second year course at VNIT Nagpur
(currently teaching).
Winter 2023 MAL 101, Mathematics I, [Link] first year course at VNIT Nagpur
Winter 2023 MAL 205, Numerical Analysis and Probability Theory, [Link] second year
course at VNIT Nagpur

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

June 2017 Achieved All India Rank 120 in CSIR NET-JRF in Joint CSIR-UGC test.
2012 - 2017 Granted INSPIRE (SHE) Scholarship from Department of Science and Tech-
nology, Government of India, for being the top 1% candidates in +2 level bo-
ard examination.
December 2016 Achieved All India Rank 138 in UGC NET-JRF in Joint CSIR-UGC test.
June 2016 Achieved All India Rank 120 in CSIR NET-JRF in Joint CSIR-UGC test.
June 2015 Awarded the GOLD MEDAL for securing first position in [Link].(H) Mathe-
matics from the University Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
March 2015 Achieved All India Rank (AIR) 35 in Joint Admission Test for Masters (JA-
M) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology.
2013 - 2014 Awarded the Merit Scholarship for securing first position in Class [Link].(H)
Mathematics, 2nd year from the university Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
2012 - 2013 Awarded the Merit Scholarship for securing first position in Class [Link].(H)
Mathematics, 1st year from the university Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

28 Feb - 4 March 2023 Participant and Volunteer, Discussion meeting ‘Control Theory meets Theory
of Homogenization’ held at Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Techno-
logy Bombay.
28 Nov - 3 Dec 2022 Teaching Assistant, NCM Workshop on ‘Control Theory for Differential Equ-
ations’ held at IISER, Kolkata, India.
2 July - 7 July 2021 Volunteer and Participant, SPARC Workshop on ‘Adaptive Finite Element M-
ethods’ by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Scheme for Promotion
of Academic and Research Collaboration. (Online Event).
28 Feb - 3 March 2020 Participant, Workshop on Finite Elements for Nonlinear and Multiscale Prob-
lems, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
21 Feb - 23 Feb 2020 Volunteer and Participant, Conference on ‘Differential Equations and Homog-
enization’, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bomb-
ay.
9 Dec - 28 Dec 2019 Participant, Advance Instructional Schools (AIS) on Geometric Analysis, De-
partment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
29 Aug - 3 Sept 2019 Participant, West Asian Mathematical School (WAMS), Department of Math-
ematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
10 June - 12 June 2019 Volunteer and Participant, Annual Conference 2019, Indian Women and Mat-
hematics (IWM), Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay.
16 Feb - 17 Feb, 2019 Participant, Regional Workshop on Research and Opportunities, IWM, Homi
Bhabha Centre for Science Education TIFR,
4 Jan - 6 Jan 2019 Participant, Diamond Jubilee Symposium, Department of Mathematics, Indi-
an Institute of Technology Bombay.

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP

Spring 2021 MA 214, Numerical Analysis, [Link] second year course (IIT Bombay)
Autumn 2020 MA 5102, Basic Algebraic Topology, [Link]. second year course (IIT Bombay)
Spring 2020 MA 214, Numerical Analysis, B. Tech third year course (IIT Bombay)
Autumn 2019 SI 425, Basic Real Analysis, [Link]. first year course (IIT Bombay)
Spring 2019 MA 214, Numerical Analysis, B. Tech third year course (IIT Bombay)
Autumn 2018 MA 105, Calculus, B. Tech first year course (IIT Bombay)

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES

2020 - 2021 Research Scholar Representative, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institu-

te of Technology, Bombay.

2019 - 2020 Student Coordinator, Graduate Seminar on Partial Differential Equations, De-
partment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

2016 - 2017 Leaded the Registration team of 36th Mathematics Olympiad 2017, Departme-
 nt of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

2016 - 2017 Student Companion, Institute Student Companion Programme, Indian Institu-
te of Technology, Bombay.

2015 - 2016 Member, Logistic and Registration team of 35th Mathematics Olympiad 2016,
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

TECHNICAL STRENGTHS

Computer Languages C/C++, MATLAB, Python (FEniCS)

Software & Tools LaTeX, Excel

REFERENCES

Prof. Debanjana Mitra Prof. Neela Nataraj

Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400076 Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400076
Email: deban@[Link] Email: neela@[Link]
Telephone: 022 2576 9471 Telephone: 022 2576 7468

Prof. Pallavi Mahale

Department of Mathematics,
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur,
Nagpur, Maharashtra - 440010
Email: pmahale@[Link]
Telephone: 0712-280 1406