Prof. Shankar Narasimhan

Prof.Shankar Narasimhan is currently a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras. His major research interests are in the areas of data mining, process design and optimization, fault detection and diagnosis and fault tolerant control. He has co-authored several important papers and a book titled Data Reconciliation and Gross Error Detection: An Intelligent Use of Process Data which has received critical appreciation in India and abroad.

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Prof. Ragunathan Rengasamy

Prof. Ragunathan Rengasamy is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and a core member of the recently established Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and AI (RBC-DSAI) at IIT Madras. He is also a co-Founder and Director of Gyan Data Pvt. Ltd. (GDPL, identified as one of the top 10 start-ups to watch out for in 2018 by Analytics India Magazine), a high tech start-up in the area of data analytics located at IIT Madras Research Park. Recently, he co-founded GITAA Pvt. Ltd., a data science education company, incubated by the IITM Incubation Cell. Prior to this, he was Professor, Chemical Engineering and co-director of the Process Control and Optimization Consortium (PCOC) at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX USA, Associate and full Professor at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY and Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
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