Harnessing AI in Industrial Automation and Machinery with MATLAB

Dr. Chong Shin Horng

Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre

Dr. Chong is a seasoned researcher with a diverse skill set encompassing research design, academic writing, intercultural communication, education, and university teaching. She holds a distinguished Doctor of Engineering degree in Mechano-Micro Engineering from the prestigious Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2010. Her notable contributions include significant work on robotics projects, particularly developing human-robot collaboration for EV battery disassembly at ARTC.

Dr. Chong's primary research interests span precision motion control, control theory, rehabilitation assistive equipment, and biomedical engineering, pivotal in advancing technology and manufacturing.

Dr. Kishore Kanamarlapudi

MathWorks

Dr. Kishore Kanamarlapudi, the Industry Manager for Industrial Automation & Machinery, Energy, and Medical Devices segments at MathWorks, plays a pivotal role in engaging with key customers. His focus lies in adopting MATLAB & Simulink workflows and services for systems development and verification.

With over 11 years of experience, Dr. Kishore has been deeply involved in product development and systems deployment within the realm of A IoT - energy, grid modernization, power electronics, electric vehicles (EV), and renewable technologies. Prior to MathWorks, he worked with Engie, Bosch, General Motors and Tata Consultancy Services in various roles and industrial applications. Kishore holds Ph.D. in Power Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India.

Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam

MathWorks

Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam works as a senior application engineer at MathWorks in the area of artificial intelligence. He primarily focuses on areas of data analytics applications involving time-series data. Jayanth has eight years of research and industrial experience, and has worked on developing AI, machine learning, and deep learning  solutions for retail optimization, computer vision, natural language processing, and other application areas. Prior to joining MathWorks, Jayanth worked as a senior AI engineer at Impact Analytics, Bangalore.

Ramanuja Jagannathan

MathWorks

Ramanuja Jagannathan is a senior application engineer at MathWorks India working on modeling, simulation, control design, and simulation deployment for mechatronics applications. He has experience working in customer projects involving mechatronic machine design, robotic manipulators, reinforcement learning–based controllers, and digital twin deployment. Before joining MathWorks, he was a senior engineer at Larsen and Toubro working in project planning and control of railway projects. Ramanuja’s academic background is in process control, and he completed a master’s program at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. 

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Dr. Balakrishna Pamulaparthy

GE Vernova

Dr. Balakrishna Pamulaparthy, PhD was born in Hyderabad, India. He received his M.Tech and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2008 and 2016 respectively. He is currently working as Senior Engineer – Emerging Technologies at Office of Innovation, GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE), Hyderabad Technology Center, India in Smart Grid domain. He has overall 14+ years of Industrial R&D experience at GE and ~2 years of academic experience working as fulltime Assistant Professor in School of Electrical Sciences/Professor-in-Charge Electrical/Adjunct Faculty at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar during 2017-20. His research interests include Smart Grid, Substation/Distribution Automation, Grid Monitoring & Data analytics, Transformer/Motor Asset Management, DMS, SCADA and AMI. He has filed 40 US patents to his credit out of which 14 are granted till date along with 35+ reputed publications in various international journals/conferences. He is the recipient of several global awards including GE Inventor of the Year Award in 2010, GE Silver Award for 10+ Patents, Prestigious Ramanujan Young Achiever Award in 2011, GE Imagination and Courage Award in 2012, Energy Management Innovation Excellence Award in 2014, GE Empower and Inspire Global Award in 2015, VIRA Young Scientist Award in 2019, GE Innovation Excellence Award in 2020, GE ITC Tech Yoda Award in 2021, Grid Innovation Challenge Winner Award in 2022 & 2023 and Encore Impact Award for Deliver with Focus in 2023. He has delivered several guest lectures on smart grid related topics to students, researchers and faculties in various short-term courses organized by IIT’s, NIT’s, IEEE and Universities. He is currently BoS member at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Warangal, MITS Madanapalle, BVRIT Hyderabad and Industry leader-in-charge for MoU with IIT Roorkee and IIT Hyderabad.

Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam

MathWorks

Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam works as a senior application engineer at MathWorks in the area of artificial intelligence. He primarily focuses on areas of data analytics applications involving time-series data. Jayanth has eight years of research and industrial experience, and has worked on developing AI, machine learning, and deep learning  solutions for retail optimization, computer vision, natural language processing, and other application areas. Prior to joining MathWorks, Jayanth worked as a senior AI engineer at Impact Analytics, Bangalore.

Dr. Mayukha Pal

ABB Global Industries and Services Pvt Ltd

Dr. Mayukha Pal is currently working with ABB's Ability Innovation Center at Hitech City, Hyderabad as Global R&D Leader – Cloud & Advanced Analytics for the Digital System division developing data science strategy, roadmap and its program implementation plan. He has more than 21 years of industrial R&D work experience spanning various roles as global program manager and engineering functional leader with ABB, GE and Optiwave Photonics Ltd. He had obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy from C R Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (CRRao AIMSCS), University of Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad and his Master’s degree in Electronics with specialization in Optical Fiber Communication from University of Hyderabad. He has guided more than 15 M.Tech & B.Tech students  for their industrial projects from premier research institutes of India like IIT, NIT, ISI, IISER, HCU. Currently co-guiding 7 PhD students’ thesis from IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, IIT ISM Dhanbad, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad. He has published more than 60 peer reviewed research papers in international journals and conferences and holds 10 patents, 2 trade secrets. 

He is a senior IEEE member and part of many international technical committees, board of directors, review panels, international conferences, university board of studies with strong industry-academia and start up R&D collaboration for leapfrog technology scouting, innovation. He has delivered several keynotes, guest lectures and invited talks in various forums and spearheaded securing R&D funding for new technology development from govt agencies. His current research interest includes data science, physics aware analytics for electrical distribution system’s autonomous asset management and Switchgear Analytics along with cognitive neuroscience; biomedical signal processing; financial analytics using techniques like data driven analysis, AI & ML, Deep learning, nonlinear dynamics, fluctuation Analysis, time series analysis, multifractal and correlation study, wavelet analysis, mathematical modeling of complex systems.

Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam

MathWorks

Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam works as a senior application engineer at MathWorks in the area of artificial intelligence. He primarily focuses on areas of data analytics applications involving time-series data. Jayanth has eight years of research and industrial experience, and has worked on developing AI, machine learning, and deep learning  solutions for retail optimization, computer vision, natural language processing, and other application areas. Prior to joining MathWorks, Jayanth worked as a senior AI engineer at Impact Analytics, Bangalore.