Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Dr. P. S. V. Nataraj
Doctorate (Ph.D) in Currently working as
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Biography of Speaker
Prof. Paluri S. V. Nataraj is
a Professor of Systems and Control Engg Group at IIT Bombay. He obtained
his Ph.D. from IIT Madras in
process dynamics and control in 1987. He then worked in the
CAD center at
IIT Bombay, India for
about one and half years before joining the faculty of the
Systems and Control Engineering
Group at IIT Bombay in 1988.
His current research interests are in the areas
of Chemical Process Control, Global Optimization, Robust Stability and
Control, Nonlinear System Analysis and Control, and Reliable Computing.
He has guided more than 100 Masters and doctoral students in these
areas, and published more than 100 papers in leading international
journals and conferences. He is an Associate Editor of International
Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (Springer), and
Editor of two international journals - International Journal of
Automation and Control (Inderscience) and Opsearch (Springer).
He was invited as a “very high quality
professor” by Spain in 2004-2005, and gave numerous invited talks in
North and South America, Europe, and Africa in areas such as
optimization, reliable computing, and control. Some of his papers
received the best paper awards at various international conferences. In
particular, one of his papers received the NASA / US Navy commendation
and memento for the “Best Applied Research paper” at the International
Symposium on Air Breathing Engines (ISOABE), Cleveland, Ohio, in
2003.
Prof. Nataraj was the chairman or co-chairman of
several international conferences sponsored by IEEE and other societies.
He also chaired and co-chaired several sessions in various international
conferences in India and abroad.
Prof. Nataraj has given many control related courses
to various industries and organizations, such as BHEL, L &T, ONGC,
Reliance, Nuclear Power Corporation, and Defense Research organizations.
He worked on several projects for the Aerospace, Nuclear, Defense
organizations, and Chemical industries. He also worked on the Technology
development mission project "Integrated Design and Competitive
Manufacturing (IDCM)", for the Indian planning commission.
He is the chief coordinator of the CARIMO cell setup
at IIT Bombay to foster interaction with the industry in the areas of
Control, Automation, Reliability, Instrumentation, Measurement, and
Optimization. CARIMO cell is actively coordinating various short term
courses, training programs, and projects for industries and
organizations in the country and abroad.