Aashi Shrinate
Research Scholar in Control and Automation in IITK
I am a PhD student at IIT Kanpur in Control and Automation. I received the PMRF fellowship in Cycle-10, Jan 2023.
My PhD advisors are Prof. Twinkle Tripathy and Prof. Laxmidhar Behera.
My research interests include opinion dynamics and graph theory. I am also interested in nonlinear dynamical systems and the fascinating behaviours that arise from them.
Opinion Dynamics
'A lie can travel halfway around the world while truth is putting on its shoes' wrote Mark Twain
Problem 1: Role of network topology in opinion formation
Diverse opinions exist in a society, which is important for a healthy democracy. However, societies are getting polarised due to the spread of fake news and the echo chamber effect of social media. A correlation between social networks and polarised society is established in empirical studies. My research objective is to analyze the process of opinion evolution and model the occurrence of polarised behaviour. I work on identifying network properties and external influences that make individuals more susceptible to polarization. My objective is to design network properties that lead to a 'desired' opinion formation in networks.
Problem 2: Desired clustering of opinions in signed networks
Opinion dynamics models find application in autonomous decision-making in multiagent systems where agents cooperate/compete to achieve a desired goal. Multiagent systems are now employed extensively in warehouses, rescue operations, etc. Task distribution among agents and distributed coordination among agents to achieve desired global behaviour can be solved by achieving the desired clustering of opinions. We propose algorithms to design control input that achieve any desired cluster formation in any arbitrary networks
Relevant Publications:
1) Shrinate, A., & Tripathy, T. Absolute centrality in a signed Friedkin-Johnsen based model: a graphical characterisation of influence. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00456. (Under the second round of review in IEEE TAC)
2) Shrinate, A., & Tripathy, T. Towards influence centrality: where to not add an edge in the network? (Under review in European Control Conference-2025)
Related Publications:
1) Kamthe, A. N., Vishnudatta, T., Shrinate, A. & Tripathy, T. External Bias and Opinion Clustering in Cooperative Networks. (Provisionally accepted in Automatica)
2) Priya, S., Shrinate, A., & Tripathy, T. (2024). Desired Group Consensus in Arbitrary Signed Networks. Authorea Preprints. (Under review in European Journal of Control)
Journals:
1) Kamthe, A. N., Vishnudatta, T., Shrinate, A. \& Tripathy, T. External Bias and Opinion Clustering in Cooperative Networks. (Provisionally accepted in Automatica)
2) Shrinate, A., & Tripathy, T. (2024). Absolute centrality in a signed Friedkin-Johnsen based model: a graphical characterisation of influence. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00456. (Under the second round of review in IEEE TAC)
3) Priya, S., Shrinate, A., & Tripathy, T. (2024). Desired Group Consensus in Arbitrary Signed Networks. Authorea Preprints. (Under review in European Journal of Control)
4) Shrinate, A., \& Tripathy, T. (2024). An exploration into the impact of edge modifications: An application in recommender systems (In preparation to be submitted to Automatica)
Publications
Conference Proceedings
1) Shrinate, Aashi, Twinkle Tripathy, and Laxmidhar Behera. "Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics using Disagreement Laplacian Flows in Antagonistic Networks." 2022 Eighth Indian Control Conference (ICC). IEEE, 2022.
2)Shrinate, A., Tripathy, T., & Behera, L. (2023, December). Desired Clustering in Signed Networks. In 2023 Ninth Indian Control Conference (ICC) (pp. 233-238). IEEE.
3) Shrinate, A., & Tripathy, T. Towards influence centrality: where to not add an edge in the network? (Under review in European Control Conference-2025)
Education and Work Experience
2021-Ongoing
2020-2021
June -July 2018
2016-2020
PhD Scholar in Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Kanpur.
CPI 9.5.
Associate Engineer, SVE
Qualcomm Bangalore
Summer Intern
DRDO, LASTEC LAB, New Delhi
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, MNNIT ALLAHABAD
CPI 8.15