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Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Faculty - School of Engg. & Science

raghur@iitmz.ac.in

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Educational Qualifications

PhD 1995

Chemical Engineering

Purdue University, USA

BTech 1990

Chemical Engineering

IIT Madras, India

Awards

  • Institute Chair Professor

    IIT Madras, India

  • YBG Varma Award for Excellence in Teaching

    IIT Madras, India

  • Fellow

    Indian National Academy of Engineering

  • Graham Faculty Research Award

    Clarkson University, USA

  • Best Paper - Application-oriented paper on Symbolic AI Approaches

    IFAC EAAI

  • Omega Chi Epsilon, Professor of the Year Award

    Clarkson University, USA

  • Young Engineer Award

    Indian National Academy of Engineering

  • David Ross Fellowship

    Purdue, USA

Research Interests

My research areas are Reinforcement Learning, Big Data Process Analytics, Machine Learning & Big Data.

Relevant Courses Taught

  • Mathematical Foundations of Data Science
  • Modern Control Theory
  • Python for Data Science (NPTEL)
  • Data Science for Engineers (NPTEL)

Selected Papers

2023

Perovskite‐based electrocatalyst discovery and design using word embeddings from retrained SciBERT language model

Arun Muthukkumaran

Shrayas Raghunathan

Arjun Ravichandran

Raghunathan Rengaswamy

AIChE Journal

2022

Data science and IoT based mobile monitoring framework for hyper-local PM2. 5 assessment in urban setting

S Swaminathan

AVS Guntuku

S Sumeer

A Gupta

R Rengaswamy

Building and Environment 225

2022

Integration of Machine Learning and First Principles Models

L.Rajulapati

S.Chinta

B.Shyamala

R.Rengaswamy

AIChE J

2022

Reinforcement-Learning designs droplet microfluidic networks

M Shahab

R Rengaswamy

Computers and Chemical Engineering

2022

CDiNN -Convex Difference Neural Networks

Parameswaran Sankaranarayanan

Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Neurocomputing

Books Published

  • Book Cover of Data Science for Engineers

    Data Science for Engineers

    CRC Press

    2022
  • Book Cover of Process Control Fundamentals

    Process Control Fundamentals

    CRC Press

    2020

Selected Professional Contributions

  • Jury member for GITA Global Technology Development Awards 2021
  • Advisor, CII for their Center of Excellence in Data Science and AI
  • Member, CII International Liaisons Sub-committee, Southern Region
  • Core member, DST-PAC, Chemical and Environmental Engineering 2019-2022
  • Task Force Member, Department of Biotechnology, India 2014 - 2017
  • National Research Council Member, NMRL, Ambernath, India

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