Harikrishnan G

Biography

2009-2014 Doctor of Philosophy (Awarded R G Manudhane award for excellence in PhD thesis and Institute award for excellence in PhD thesis) { Thesis Title: Modelling and stabilizing model predictive control of switched and nonlinear systems { Supervisor: Prof. Sharad Bhartiya { Institution: Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 2006-2008 Master of Technology (Process Control and Instrumentation) { Institution: National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy, Tamilnadu, India 2002-2006 Bachelor of Technology (Chemical Engineering)

Research Interest

Model Predictive control Control relevant modelling for MPC, Set theoretic based MPC approaches, Stabilizing and robust MPC using Lyapunov methods, Computationally efficient MPC algorithms, MPC with Mixed Integer Programming System identification Multiple model based identification of nonlinear systems, Probabilistic approaches for robust identification, Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for system identification Bayesian data analytics Bayesian methods for Probabilistic latent variable models like Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis and Probabilistic Slow Feature Analysis, Approximate Bayesian inference using Variational Bayesian methods, Application to process modelling and monitoring Process optimization Nonlinear, mixed integer, and multi-objective methods for optimization with application towards separation processe