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Ratnesh Kumar is a Ruth and Murray J. Harpole Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Iowa State University since 2002. Prior to this, he held faculty position at the University of Kentucky (1991-2002) in ECE, and has also held visiting positions in academia, research labs as well as industry labs: University of Maryland (1992/94), NASA Ames Research Center (1996) , Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University (1997-98) , Idaho National Laboratory (2001) , United Technologies Research Center (2008-09), GE Research (Summer 2015), and Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory (2016-17).

Biography
He received B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He received the Gold Medals for the Best EE Undergrad and the Best All Rounder, both from IIT Kanpur, and MCD Fellowship and the Best Dissertation Award from UT Austin.

Prof. Kumar is a Fellow of the IEEE, and also a Fellow of American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science. He has been awarded the D. R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Award for Research. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Control Systems Society. His work has received Best Paper Award recipient from IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, a Best Paper Finalist at IEEE ICNSC (Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control), a Best Paper Finalist at IEEE Sensors Conference , and another Best Paper Finalist at IEEE ICINCIO (Int. Conf. on Informatics in Controls, Automation, and Robotics).

Prof. Kumar directs the ESSeNCE (Embedded Software, Sensors, Networks, Cyber-physical, and Energy) Lab, and his research spans multi-disciplinary topics of model-based design of cyber physical systems, embedded software and formal methods, data-analytics, devices for sensing and energy harvesting along with their networks, and with applications to aeronautics, automotive, automation/manufacturing, cyber-security, web-services, recommendation systems, power systems, agriculture, and biomedical domains.

Prof. Kumar is or has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems , SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization , IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation , Journal of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems , IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications , MDPI Sensors , IEEE Control Systems Society , IEEE Robotics and Automation Systems Society , IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society , and IEEE Workshop on Software Cybernetics.

PhD/PostDoc Students

 * 1) 	 Dr	 Shawana Tabassum, PostDoc, started Dec	2018
 * 2) 	 Dr	 Gunjan Pandey, PostDoc, Spring 2014	 (Joined Skyworks, Cedar Rapids, IA	)
 * 3) 	 Dr	 Lucien Ouedraogo, PostDoc, Fall 2009-Spring 2012	 (Joined MathWorks, Boston, MA	)
 * 4) 	 Dr	 Jing Huang, PostDoc, Feb	 2009-August 2010	 (Joined NSX, Austin, TX	)
 * 5) 	 Dr	 Changyan Zhou, PostDoc, Jan	 2008-Oct	2008	 (Joined Magnatech Inc, Hartford, CT	)
 * 6) 	 Srijita Patra, started Fall 2019 (Electromigration)
 * 7) 	 Fan Zhang, started Fall 2019 (Machine learning and Robotics)
 * 8) 	 Ramij Hossain, started Fall 2018 (MPC control of Power Systems)
 * 9) 	 Amit Jena, started Fall 2018 (Machine learning algorithms)
 * 10) 	 Souvik Kundu, Started Fall 2018 (Optical Sensors for Biodetection)
 * 11) 	 Soumyabrata Talukder, Started Fall 2017 (Verification of Autonomy)
 * 12) 	 Madhav Pathak, Started Fall 2016 (Energy-Harvester Integrated Sensors)
 * 13) 	 Anupam Bhar, Started Fall 2015 (Agricultural Sysytem Modeling)
 * 14) 	 Bhuwan Kashyap, Started Fall 2015 (Rhizosphere Sensing)
 * 15) 	 Gang Wu, Started Fall 2011 (Video Analytics based on Matrix Completion methods)
 * 16) 	 Alaa Al-Ghazo, “A Framework for Cybersecurity of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition(SCADA)Systems and Industrial Control Systems (ICS)”, Nov	 2019, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Faculty at University of Hartford	)
 * 17) 	 Shawana Tabassum, “Nano-structured Optical Sensors Fabrication and Validation for Gas Sensing”, Nov	 2018, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Continuing as Post-Doc	)
 * 18) 	 Zhen Xu, “”High-throughput microfluidic assay devices for culturing of soybean and microalgae and microfluidic electrophoretic ion nutrient sensor”, April 2018, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Joined Bright Garden Robotics, a subsidiary of Country Garden, China	)
 * 19) 	 Hao Ren, “Model-based compositional verification for cyber-physical systems: approaches and tools development”, March 2018, ECE, Iowa State University	 ISU Research Excellence Award	 (Joined Honeywell Aerospace, Advanced Technology Division	)
 * 20) 	 Mariam Ibrahim, “Metrics for Secrecy and Resiliency in Cyber-Physical-Systems”, June 2016, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Joined German Jordanian University as Asst	 Prof	)
 * 21) 	 Kanishka A	 Singh, “A broadband bistable piezoelectric cantilever-based vibration energy harvester with nonlinear high power extraction”, Dec	 2015, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Joined NextEra Energy, Inc	)
 * 22) 	 Jun Chen, “Failure Diagnosis and Prognosis in Stochastic Discrete-Event and Cyber-Physical Systems”, August 2014, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Joined Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID	)
 * 23) 	 Gunjan Pandey, “Development of impedance spectroscopy based in-situ, self-calibrating, on-board sensor with in-built metamaterial inspired small antenna for ionic detection in multi-phase mixtures like soil”, Feb	 2014, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Joined Skayworks, Cedar Rapids, IA	)
 * 24) 	 Meng Li, “A Model-based approach to Automated Test Generation and Error Localization for Simulink/Stateflow”, Nov	 2013, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Joined GE Research, Schenectady, NY	)
 * 25) 	 Herman Sahota, “Wireless sensor network for precision agriculture: Design, Performance Modeling and Evaluation, and Node Localization”, July 2013, ECE, Iowa State University	 (Joined IBM, San Jose, CA	)
 * 26) 	 Songyan Xu, “Control and diagnosis of real-time systems under finite-precision measurement of time”, Nov	 2010, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (Joined Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA	)
 * 27) 	 Wen Qin, “Fault-Tolerant Control of Discrete-Event Systems”, March 2009, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (Joined Statistics & Controls, Des Moines, IA	)
 * 28) 	 Licheng Jin, “Reachability and Model-Prediction Based Power System Protection Schemes”, March 2009, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (Joined California ISO, Sacramento, CA	)
 * 29) 	 Jing Huang, “Directed Control of Discrete-Event Systems”, Feb	 2009, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (Joined Virginia Tech as PostDoc	; now with Freescale, Austin, TX	)
 * 30) 	 Saayan Mitra, “I/O-Automata based formal approach toWeb Services Choreography”, Jan	 2009, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (Joined Adobe, San Jose, CA	)
 * 31) 	 Changyan Zhou, “Control for Discrete Event Systems for Bisimulation and Simulation Equivalence Specification”, May 2006, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (Joined UIUC, Industrial and Systems Eng, Urbana-Champaign as Visiting Prof	; now with Magnatech Inc	)
 * 32) 	 Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, “Hierarchical Hybrid-Model Based Design, Verification, Simulation,and Synthesis of Mission Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”, July 2005, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (Joined Kentucky State University, Computer and Technical Sciences Dept, Frankfort, KY as Asst	 Prof	; now with Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA	)
 * 33) 	 Wenbin Qiu, “Decentralized/distributed failure diagnosis and supervisory control of discrete event systems”, May 2005, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (Joined Corning, Inc, Corning, NY	)
 * 34) 	 Jeff Ashley, “Diagnosis of Condition Systems”	 February 2004, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (Joined Univ	 of Kentucky, ECE Dept	 Lexington, KY	)
 * 35) 	 Zhongdong Huang, “Rules based Modeling of Discrete Event Systems with Faults and their Diagnosis”	 August 2003, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (Joined LHP Software, Indianapolis, IN	)
 * 36) 	 Vigyan Chandra, “New Modeling and Interaction Formalism for Discrete Event Systems and their Control”	 April 2002, ECE Univ	 of KY	 (Joined Eastern Kentucky University, Technology Dept, Richmond, KY	)
 * 37) 	 Shengbing Jiang, “Control and Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems with Temporal Logic Specifications”	 April 2002, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (Joined GM R&D, Warren, MI	)

Master Students

 * 1) 	 Souvik Kundu, April 2019, ECE, ISU (Continued as PhD in ECE, ISU	)
 * 2) 	 Shawana Tabassum, June 2018, ECE, ISU	 (Continued as PhD student in ECE, ISU	)
 * 3) 	 Lucas Wagner, “A Compositional Reasoning Framework for Imperative Programs”, April 2017, ECE, ISU	 (works at Rockwell Collins	)
 * 4) 	 Karen (Kim) Wang, “A Soil Sensor Graphical User Interface”, Dec	 2014, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (works at Employers in Reno, NV	)
 * 5) 	 Daniel Humke, “Analysis of multivariable controller designs for diesel engine air system control”, May 2013, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (joined John Deere, Waterloo, IA	)
 * 6) 	 Mattthew Jeschke, “Modern Embedded Systems Design: Survey of Tools, Techniques, and Current Practices” Fall 2007, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (joined Boston Scientific, Minneapolis, MN	)
 * 7) 	 Gregory P	 Stamp, “Software for Discrete Event Systems”, Fall 2006, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (joined Boston Scientific, Minneapolis, MN	)
 * 8) 	 Joshua M	 Olson, “Modeling of a Discrete-Event Manufacturing Plant and Design and Implementation of Controller using LabView and Programmable Logic Controllers”, April 2005, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (joined Raytheon, Tuscon, AZ	)
 * 9) 	 Vigyan Chandra, “Automated Extraction of a Controller from a Supervisor in Discrete Event Systems”, August 2003, Mfg, Univ	 of KY	 (joined Eastern Kentucky Univ	, Richmond, KY	)
 * 10) 	 Zhen Yu, “Enhancements of CINET Fuzzy Classifier”	 April 2003, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (joined Ericsson, San Jose, CA	)
 * 11) 	 Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, “Discrete Event System Approach to Network Fault Management”	 April 2003, ECE, Iowa State Univ	 (joined KY State University, currently at Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA	)
 * 12) 	 Huang Zhongdong, “Coal Segregation Control: Meeting Homogeneity Standards”	 July 2002, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (currently with LHP Software, Indianapolis, IN	)
 * 13) 	 Satya R	 Mohanty, “On the Design of Controllers for Discrete Event Systems: An Optimization Based Theory”	 January 1999, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (joined Nokia	)
 * 14) 	 Siva Gopala Namburi, “Design and Analysis of Multiprotocol Converter for Multiple Flow Control Protocols: A Discrete Event Systems Approach”, December 1998, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (joined Array Networks, Milpitas, CA	)
 * 15) 	 Bharath Orunganti, “A Graphical User Interface for Discrete Event Control Algorithms and their Applications”	 October 1997, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (joined Cadence Design Systems	)
 * 16) 	 Vigyan Chandra, “Design, Discrete Event Modeling & Control of a Miniature LEGO Assembly Line”	 October 1997, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (joined Eastern Kentucky University as Faculty	)
 * 17) 	 Manoz G	 Krovvidy, “Timed Automaton based Successive Refinement of Digital Circuit Design for Hardware Synthesis”	 October 1996, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (at Nvidia, Hyderabad	)
 * 18) 	 Zhonghui Luo, “Load Side Electrical Demand Control”	 December 1995, ECE, Univ	 of KY
 * 19) 	 Sudhir Nelvagal, “Design of Protocol Converters: A Discrete Event Systems Approach”	 July 1995, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (at GE Healthcare	)
 * 20) 	 Wai Kit Leong, “Autoplacement and Autorouting in Printed Circuit Layout”	 June 1995, ECE, Univ	 of KY
 * 21) 	 Steve Harris, “Temperature Control in Laser Printers”	 April 1995, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (at Lexmark, Lexington, KY	)
 * 22) 	 Ravichander Sekar, “Stability and Tolerance in Discrete Event Systems”	 September 1994, ECE, Univ	 of KY
 * 23) 	 Hok M	 Cheung, “Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Limited Lookahead Based on Estimation”	 December 1993, ECE, Univ	 of KY
 * 24) 	 Haomin Li, “Optimal Sequencing for Pick-and-Place Robots”	 September 1993, ECE, Univ	 of KY	 (joined Lexmark, Lexington, KY	)