Welcome to My Research Group

Announcement: A workshop to disseminate the Murburn concept is being conducted on March 15 and 16 at IIT Bombay. The resource person is Dr. Kelath Murali Manoj (Satyamjayatu) who is the promulgator of murburn concept. The flyer for the workshop including registration details can be found below

Murburn Workshop Flyer Murburn is an alternate explanation for several fundamental redox metabolic and physiologocal processes like respiration, photosynthesis, thermogenesis, drug metabolism and dose responses, electrophysiology, etc

 Our research is in optimization and control theory and their applications to processes  of industrial relevance and systems biology.


Switched Systems: State Estimation and Control

Switched systems represent a class of hybrid dynamical systems wherein occurrence of a discrete event causes the evolution of the continuous states to switch from one operating mode to another. Switched system dynamics appear in manufacturing systems during start-up/ shut-down, grade transitions, decision-making, and manipulation of on-off valves.

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Process Control and Optimzation

In this area, we use optimization and control tools to obtain strategies for operation of industrial processes. Some of the processes currently under study include a solar thermal power plant, a bio-refinery and a simulated moving bed chromatography process.

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Explicit MPC

Multiparametric (mp) programming pre-computes optimal solutions off-line which are functions of parameters, whose values become apparent online. In explicit MPC, mp-programming is used to compute optimal solutions offline and the online computation is reduced to the simple evaluation of an explicitly defined piecewise linear functions.

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Systems Biology

Biological systems represent some of the most complex dynamic systems. We have been working closely with Prof. Venkatesh to analyze and understand the systems principles recruited by nature that enable manifestation of the rich phenotypic behaviour. Some of the systems that we have studied include the tryptophan system in Escherichia coli, the galacotse uptake and osmotic remediation systems in Saccharomyces cerevisiae  and the cell cycle regulation in Schizsaccharomyces pombe.

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