principal investigator

Dr. Om Prakash

Professional Experience

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical and Materials Engineering at University of Alberta and Suncor Energy Inc. (Canada), 2022-2025
  (Advisor: Prof. Biao Huang)
• Large scale data driven dynamic modeling
• Inferential sensors in the extraction process
• Foaming prediction in Amine system
• Graph Neural Network based inferential
• State and parameter estimation in a blending process
• Image processing for oil-sand lump detection
• Event detection in transport pipelines

Educational Experience

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2016-2022
  (Advisor: Prof. Mani Bhushan)
  Thesis: Sensor placement design using system level measures with applications in fault detection and diagnosis and estimation of variables.
• M.Tech. Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2014-2016
• B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, RGIPT, Rae Bareli, 2010-2014

Awards

• R. G. Manudhane Ph.D. Excellence Award (Aug 2024), Awarded by: Dept. of Chemical Engg., IIT Bombay
• Winner of the west zone of the Shell.ai hackathon for sustainable and affordable energy (2020) for solving the Windfarm layout optimization challenge.