​​​​Dr. PS SaiKrishna​

I am currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Tirupati. I graduated with my Ph.D. in Systems and Control from Indian Institute of Technology Madras and did my   M.Tech in Instrumentation from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

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Collaborations with Industry/Academia/Corporates:

1. Technical committee member for evaluation of RFPs for ICT, Solar, and e-vehicles for Tirupati Smart City Development Corporation.

2. Technical Committee member for SSIIE-TBI (SPMVV Society for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, Tirupati) for establishing an Internet of Things Laboratory.

3. The faculty-in charge of setting up CoE on Product Engineering and Internet of Things with application to major focus areas at IIT Tirupati with Venusgeo/7iq Tirupati.

4. Emerson Process Management Limited: Establishing Internet of things (IoT) and Distributed Control Systems Research Laboratory at IIT Madras.

5. Collaborative research with Prof. Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.the University of Calgary, Canada on "Control Theoretic modeling and Robust MPC design for Fog Computing systems".                                                                                                                                                Workshops and Technical Talks:

6. Organized a short-term Course on “Complex Networks and Applications” at VJTI Mumbai with a specific talk on “Networked Control Systems”, March 2017.

7. Talk on "Cloud Computing and Applications", SSIIE Technology Business Incubator, March 2019.

8. Talk on "Model Identification and Control of a Cloud data-center", at IIT Madras Suny-Brighamton workshop on "Energy optimization in data-centers", July 2019.

9. Organized Short term training program on "Internet of Things" at GNITS Hyderabad, November 2019.

10. Organized Short term training program on "Programmable Controllers and Applications, at AITS Tirupati, September 2019.

11. Talk on "Insights on Distributed and Cloud-Based Control systems" GCET, Hyderabad, August 2020

12. Talk on "Insights on Internet of Things and Applications", KL University, September 2020.

13. Talk on "Control of Cloud Computing Systems", Online FDP on "Recent advances in Intelligent systems and non-linear Control", October 2020.

Scholastic/Professional  Achievements:  

1. Awarded SERB Core Research Grant (CRG) for the Project titled "Control theoretic framework for auto-scaling and load-balancing computing nodes hosting distributed algorithms for robot-vision applications" for the year 2020.

2. Awarded Shastri Research Grant (Indo-Canada) for the proposal titled "Enhancing QoS in mobile Edge computing Environments" for the year 2018.

3. Awarded Dr. M. Mukunda Rao Endowment Prize for the Best Ph.D. thesis in Electrical Engineering in inter-disciplinary areas of Research, IIT Madras for the year 2016.

 4. Awarded Institute Post-Doctoral fellowship for a duration of 6 months for early submission

     (< 4 Years) of Ph.D. Thesis at IIT Madras.

 5. Session best paper Award at the Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of

     Dynamical Systems, (ACODS) held at IISC Bangalore Feb 2012.

 6. Awarded with ABB silver award for outstanding project execution at Zetes 160MW Power

     plant Project,  Turkey.

 7. Qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering in the Years: 2003, 2004, 2005, and

     2006.

 8. Qualified in DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization) SET 2003 for the

     position of  Scientist B (Instrumentation) at All India Level.

 9. Qualified in APGENCO (Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Ltd.) SET 2002 for

     the position of Assistant Engineer (Instrumentation and Control) at State level.

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Programming Skills and Training:

• Private Cloud (Eucalyptus Cloud): Installation, Management and Real time Performance control.

• Programming: C, ALP, Python, Shell script

• Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows

• Packages: MATLAB, LabVIEW, Ladder Logic Programming (KV-300 Micro PLC)

• Industrial Controllers Application Development: ABB Make Controllers: Melody, AC160, AC110 and AC450

• Industrial Distributed Control System: ABB 800xA DCS with Process Portal A (HMI)

• Well versed with Industrial Automation, Control and Communication concepts with experience in Steam Turbine,  Boiler and Balance of Plant Control Logics

• Training at ATI-EPI (Advanced Training Institute for Electronics and Process Instrumentation, Hyderabad): Process  instrumentation, Temperature instrumentation, Microprocessors & applications and Repair and maintenance of electronic test equipment.

• Training at ABB ltd: Smart Plant instrumentation, AC450 controller and Melody Controller.