Faculty members

Faculty members

N Athula Kulatunga, Ph.D. CEM,

Founder & director of SMIL. He is a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.  He has been performing energy assessment for industrial and commercial sectors as a Certified Energy Manger (Association of Energy Engineers, AEE) for last 12 years. He is the founder of two industry sponsored applied research labs at Purdue – 1) Power Electronics Development and Applications Lab (PEDAL) sponsored by International Rectifier and 2) SMIL.

Awards:
2010 & 2009 Purdue College of Technology Outstanding Tenured Faculty Member
2010  & 2009 Purdue College of Technology Outstanding Faculty in Engagement
2007 Legends in Energy award by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)

Applied Research Areas:
Energy and electrical power management in Smart Grids, ; power electronics applications in motor drives, super-capacitors, and power converters.

Faculty members

Kartik B. Ariyur, Ph.D.
is Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering in Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Prior to joining Purdue in 2008, worked on a variety of problems while at the Honeywell Labs in Minneapolis. They range from guidance, navigation communications and control to health monitoring, surveillance, hybrid system verification and aerodynamic modeling. He has more than 25 US patent applications (9 issued).
Research Areas:
•Stabilizing the Smart Grid: active demand management; consumer energy management
•Autonomous navigation: GPS denied navigation; navigation with natural signals;
•Health monitoring, adaptation, and real-time optimization: security systems, aircraft engines and actuators
Highlights:
•Program committees of the American Control Conference (2008, 2009), and the Hybrid Systems Computation and Control Conference (2006)
•Technical editor of the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing: 2005—present
•SAE best paper award—2004.
•Book: Real-time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control, Kartik B. Ariyur and Miroslav Krstic, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
•Health monitoring algorithms used on 70% of aircraft auxiliary power units (APUs) worldwide, adaptive filtering algorithms implemented on Qualcomm CDMA chips worldwide, and thresholds for health monitoring of Local Area Augmentation Systems being implemented in various countries.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~kariyur/

 

Faculty members

Dr. Chris Foreman, PhD CSE (2008), MENG EE (1996), teaches and performs research in power generation, including renewable energy processes, intelligent power grid (smart grid), microgrid systems, electric vehicle drivetrains, and power storage. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, the Power and Energy Society, and has approximately 15 years industry experience in power and related industries, in addition to his academic career.
Other areas of interest include cyber-security of industrial control systems (ICS), microfabrication (MEMS), and advanced algorithms in ICS.  https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/foremanj