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Mayuresh V. Kothare

Co-Director, Center for Chemical Process Modeling and Control

R. L. McCann Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, D322 Iacocca Hall, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, U.S.A.

Phone: 610-758-6654

Fax: 610-758-5057

e-mail:mayuresh.kothare@lehigh.edu

 

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A. Biographical Information

A.1 Personal Information

Date of birth: November 4, 1969
Place of birth: Bombay, India
Marital status: Married
Children: One son, one daughter
Citizenship: U.S.A.

A.2 Education

1991 B.Tech. (ChE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
1995 M.S. (ChE), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
1997 Ph.D. (ChE), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

A.3 Academic Experience

June - July 1991: Research assistant, IIT Bombay, project sponsored by the Dept. of Science and Technology (India)

Sept.1991 - Sept 1994: Research assistant, California Institute of Technology

Sept.1994 - Dec.1996: Research assistant, Swiss Fed. Insti. of Tech. (ETH), Zürich

Jun - Jul 1996: Visiting scholar, Dept. of Elec. Eng., Purdue University

Jan - Jun 1997: Visiting scholar, Dept. of Chem. Eng., City College New York

Jul 1998 -- present: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Lehigh U.

Jul 1998 -- present: Faculty member of the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center, Lehigh University

Jul 2001 - Jun 2003: P. C. Rossin Assistant Professor of Chem. Eng.,Lehigh Univ.

Jan. 2002 -- present: Co-Director, Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center, Lehigh University

Sep. 2002- Aug. 2004: Frank Hook Assistant Professor of Chem. Eng., Lehigh University

June 2003 - May 2008: Associate Professor of Chem. Eng., Lehigh University

April-June 2004: Class of 1961 Associate Professor of Chem. Eng., Lehigh U.

July 2004 - May 2008: R. L. McCann Associate Professor of Chem. Eng., Lehigh U.

May 2008 - present: Professor of Chem. Eng., Lehigh U.

May 2008 - present: R. L. McCann Professor of Chem. Eng., Lehigh U.

Sept. 2008 - Aug. 2009: Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

A.4 Industrial Experience

Jun - Jul 1990: Industrial summer trainee, Rhone Poulenc (India) Ltd.

Aug.1995 - Dec. 1996: Initiator and co-ordinator of project Level Control in the Steam Generator of a Nuclear Power Plant sponsored by Electricite de France at the Swiss Fed. Inst. of Tech. (ETH)

Jul.- Dec. 1995: Initiator and co-ordinator of project Modeling and Robust Control of Active Noise Cancellation Systems sponsored by Sulzer Innotec at the Swiss Fed. Inst. of Tech. (ETH)

Jul. 1997 - Jun. 1998: Postdoctoral research associate, Mobil Technology Company, New Jersey

May 2000 - August 2002: Collaborative research project with the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, a consortium of microelectronics industries

July 2002 - June 2003: Industrial research project with Air Products & Chemicals Inc. and Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) on control of Pressure Swing Adsorption systems

Jan. 2002 - present: Co-Director, Industry Liason Program, Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center, Lehigh U.

July 2003 - Dec. 2005: Collaborative research project with the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, a consortium of microelectronics industries.

B. Honors and Awards

1984. Ranked in the first fifty students of Bombay, India, in the Bombay Talent Search examination in the basic sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics)

1986. Selected as the state level representative to participate in the Indian National Mathematics Olympiad

1991. Dept. of Chem. Eng., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Silver Medal for ranking first in graduating class

1991. Reliance Heat Transfer Pvt. Ltd. prize for the most outstanding student graduating from Chem. Eng., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

1991. J. N. Tata Endowment prize for outstanding students pursuing graduate
studies outside India

1991. Sumant Mulgaonkar Memorial Award given by the Jamsetjii Tata Trust, India, for demonstrating academic excellence

1991 - 1992. Union Oil Graduate Fellowship, California Institute of Technology

2000. Ted Peterson Student Paper Award, Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, for publishing an outstanding journal paper during graduate studies

2001. Junior faculty (starter) grant from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society

2001 - 2003. P. C. Rossin Assistant Professorship, the Rossin Endowment, P. C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Lehigh University

2001. Outstanding reviewer for Automatica, a premier journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

2002 - 2007. Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for new faculty members from the U.S. National Science Foundation

2002. Alfred Noble Robinson Award, Lehigh University, awarded to a junior faculty member under 35 years of age ``for outstanding performance in the service of the University and unusual promise of professional achievement''

2002 - 2004. Frank Hook Assistant Professorship, Lehigh University, awarded to ``a junior scholar-teacher who also fosters personal interaction and mentoring relationships with students''

2003. Best presentation in session, 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, June 2003.

Apr. 2004- Jun. 2004. Class of 1961 Associate Professor, Lehigh University, awarded to "a recently tenured Associate Professor for distinction in teaching, research and service"

July 2004 - present. R. L. McCann Endowed Professorship

November 2007. Outstanding Young Research Award (age below 40 years), Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) division of the AIChE, for outstanding contributions to computing in chemical engineering literature.

Sept. 2008. One of 82 participants (age 30-45 years) selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Workshop, Albuquerque, NM

B.1 Awards to Students

June 2000. Best presentation in session (Eric F. Mulder), 2000 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL

Sept. 2000. Undergraduate Research Assistant Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (Jake Towne, CHE junior summer research student)

Sept. 2000. Leonard Wenzel Award for best performance in
Ph.D. qualifying exam (Ashish V. Pattekar, shared with K. Al-Fadhel)

Sept. 2000. Leonard Wenzel Award for best performance in Ph.D. qualifying exam (Khaled Al-Fadhel, shared with A. V. Pattekar)

Dec. 2000. Significant Contribution Award for the internship at DuPont, Wilmington, DE Sep. 15 - Dec. 15, 2000.

Sept. 2001. Leonard Wenzel Award for best performance in Ph.D. qualifying exam (Samrat Mukherjee, shared with G. Viecco)

May 2002. Finalist in the Best Student Paper Award category (Eric F. Mulder), 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2002

May 2002. Best presentation in session (Eric F. Mulder), 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2002

May 2002. Best presentation in session (Leyla Ozkan), 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2002

April 2003. Lehigh University Engineering Ingenuity Award for Graduate Research and Scholarship (Ashish Pattekar). Given to a graduate student in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science who has excelled in the area of his or her chosen interest with unwavering dedication and intellectual courage toward a definite goal in a most ambitious pursuit of advanced research.

May 2003. Graduate Student Leadership Award (honorable mention and cash award) (Ashish Pattekar) from the Lehigh University Alumni Association to recognize a graduate student for his exemplary scholarship, leadership, and service to the university and the graduate student community.

Dec. 2003. PRIDE AT BOEING appreciation award (A. Pattekar) from Boeing Lab for research during his summer internship with NuElement, Inc. Alternative Energy Systems, Tacoma,WA on a contract with Boeing.

Jan. 2004. Sigma Xi grant in aid of research (S. Mukherjee) one of few engineers given this grant nationally for pursuing independent graduate research.

April 2004. Lehigh University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (K. Alfadhel)

July 2004. Best presentation in session (L. Bleris), 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, MA.

Jan - Mar. 2005. Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (L. Bleris), Washington, DC

June 2005. Best presentation in session (L. Bleris), 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR

August 2005. Selected participant (L. Bleris), Siemens Technology-to-Business workshop, (one of 10 participants from 100 international applicants), San Francisco, CA.

June 2006. Finalist in the Best Student Paper Award category (co-authoring graduate student Bert Pluymers from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN

C. Publications and Creative Activities

C.1 Books

    Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Efficient Robust Model Predictive Control via Convex Optimization: Efficiently Incorporating Robustness using Linear Matrix Inequalities. VDM Verlag Dr Mόller, Germany, ISBN 978-3639086584, 2008.
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C.1 Book Chapters

  1. Kothare, M. V. and Z. Wan. A Computationally Efficient Scheduled Model Predictive Control Algorithm for Control of a Class of Constrained Nonlinear Systems. In Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control , Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Series (LNCIS), R. Findeisen, F. Allgower, L. Biegler, editors, (2007).
  2. Kothare, M. V. Dynamics and Control Issues in Micro-Power Generation Systems. In Chemical Micropower Generation: Status and Opportunities, A. Mitsos, P. I. Barton (editors), VCH-Wiley, (2008).
C.2 Refereed Journals Articles

  1. Zheng, A. Q., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Anti-Windup Design for Internal Model Control. International Journal of Control, vol. 60(5), pp 1015-1024, (1994).
  2. Kothare, M. V., P. J. Campo, M. Morari and C. N. Nett. A Unified Framework for the Study of Anti-Windup Designs. Automatica, vol. 30 (12), pp 1869-1883, December (1994).
  3. Kothare, M. V., V. Balakrishnan and M. Morari. Robust Constrained Model Predictive Control using Linear Matrix Inequalities. Automatica, vol. 32 (10), pp 1361-1379, October (1996).
  4. Kothare, M. V., B. Mettler, M. Morari, P. Bendotti and C.-M. Falinower. Linear Parameter Varying Model Predictive Control for Steam Generator Level Control. Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 21S, pp S861-S866 (1997).
  5. Kothare, M. V. and M. Morari. Multiplier Theory for Stability Analysis of Anti-Windup Control Systems. Automatica, vol. 35 (5), pp 917-928, May 1999.
  6. Kothare, M. V., B. Mettler, M. Morari, P. Bendotti and C.-M. Falinower. Level Control in the Steam Generator of a Nuclear Power Plant. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 8 (1), pages 55-69, January (2000).
  7. Mulder, E. F. and M. V. Kothare. A discussion of the paper ``A Performance Criterion for Anti-Windup Compensators'' by A. Rantzer. European Journal of Control, special issue on anti-windup control, vol. 6, no. 5, May (2000).
  8. Mulder, E. F. and M. V. Kothare. A discussion of the paper ``A Performance Criterion for Anti-Windup Compensators'' by A. Rantzer. European Journal of Control, special issue on anti-windup control, vol. 6, no. 5, May (2000).
  9. Mulder, E. F. and M. V. Kothare. A discussion of the paper ``Anti-Windup and Model Predictive Control: Reflections and Connections'' by J. A. De Dona, G. C. Goodwin and M. M. Seron. European Journal of Control, special issue on anti-windup control, vol. 6, no. 5, May (2000).
  10. Mulder, E. F., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Multivariable Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis using Bilinear Matrix Inequalities. European Journal of Control, vol. 6, no. 5, pages 455-464, May (2000).
  11. Özkan, L., C. Georgakis and M. V. Kothare. Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems using Piecewise Linear Models. Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 24 (2-7), pages 793-799, July (2000).
  12. Kothare, M. V., R. Shinnar, I. Rinard and M. Morari. On Defining the Partial Control Problem: Concepts and Examples. AIChE Journal, vol. 46(12), pages 2456-2474, December (2000).
  13. Mulder, E. F., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Multivariable Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis using Linear Matrix Inequalities. Automatica, vol. 37(9), pages 1407-1416, September (2001).
  14. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Robust Output Feedback Model Predictive Control using Off-line Linear Matrix Inequalities. Journal of Process Control, vol. 12(7), 763-774, October (2002).
  15. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. Novel Microfluidic Interconnectors for High Temperature and Pressure Applications. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 13, pages 337-3`45, February (2003).
  16. Karnik, S. V., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Towards A Palladium Micro-Membrane for the Water Gas Shift Reaction: Microfabrication Approach and Hydrogren Purification Results. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems , vol. 12(1), pages 93-100, February (2003).
  17. Özkan, L., M. V. Kothare and C. Georgakis. Control of a Solution Copolymerization Reactor Using Multi-Model Predictive Control. Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 58(7), pages 1207-1221, April (2003).
  18. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Efficient Scheduled Stabilizing Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems. International Journal of Robust & Nonlinear Control, vol. 13 (3-4), pages 331-346, March-April (2003).
  19. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Efficient Robust Model Predictive Control with Time Varying Terminal Constraint Sets. Systems & Control Letters, vol. 48(5), pages 375-383, April (2003).
  20. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. An Efficient Off-Line Formulation of Robust Model Predictive Control using Linear Matrix Inequalities, Automatica, vol. 39(5), page 837-846, May (2003).
  21. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. A Microreactor for Hydrogen Production in Micro-Fuel Cell Applications. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 13(1), pages 7-18, February (2004).
  22. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Efficient Scheduled Stabilizing Output Feedback Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 49(7), pages 1172-1177, July (2004).
  23. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Low-Order Empirical Modeling of Distributed Parameter Systems Using Temporal and Spatial Eigenfunctions. Computers & Chemical Engineering , vol 29(4), pages 817-827, March (2005).
  24. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Microfluidic Modeling and Simulation of Flow in Membrane Microreactors. Chemical Engineering Science , vol 60 (11), 2911-2926, June (2005).
  25. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. A Radial Microfluidic Fuel Processor. Journal of Power Sources , vol. 147(1-2), pages 116-127, September (2005).
  26. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Reduced Order Distributed Boundary Control of Thermal Transients in Microsystems. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology , vol 13 (6), pages 853-867, November (2005).
  27. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Modeling of Multicomponent Reactive Separations in Membrane Microreactors. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol 44 (26), pages 9794-9804, December (2005).
  28. Bleris, L., J. Garcia, M. V. Kothare and M. G. Arnold. Towards embedded Model Predictive Control for System-on-Chip applications. Journal of Process Control , vol 16 (3), pages 255-264, March (2006).
  29. Özkan, L. and M. V. Kothare. Stability Analysis of a Multi-Model Predictive Control algorithm with Application to Control of Chemical Reactors. Journal of Process Control , vol. 16 (2), pages 81-90, February (2006).
  30. Kothare, M. V. Dynamics and Control of Integrated Microchemical Systems with application to micro-scale fuel processing. Computers & Chemical Engineering, volume 30 (10-12), pages 1725-1734, September (2006).
  31. Bleris, L. , J. Garcia, M. G. Arnold and M. V. Kothare. Model Predictive Hydrodynamic Regulation of Microflows. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering , vol. 16 (9), pages 1792-1799, September (2006).
  32. Wan, Z., B. Pluymer, M.V. Kothare and B. de Moor. Comments on: ``Efficient robust constrained model predictive control with a time varying terminal constraint set'' by Wan and Kothare, Systems & Control Letters , vol. 55, no. 7, 618-621, July (2006).
  33. Kothare, M. V. Book review: Process Modeling: Modeling, Design and Simulation , IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 26(6), page 106-108, December (2006).
  34. Mukherjee, S., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Water gas shift reaction in a glass microreactor. Catalysis Today , vol. 120 (1), pages 107-120, January (2007).
  35. Bleris, L., P. D. Vouzis, M. G. Arnold and M. V. Kothare. Pathways For Optimization-Based Drug Delivery Systems and Devices. Control Engineering Practice , vol. 15(10), pages 1280-1291, October (2007).
  36. Tiwari, P., E. F. Mulder and M. V. Kothare. Synthesis of stabilizing anti-windup controllers using piecewise quadratic Lyapunov functions. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 52 (12), 2341-2345, December (2007).
  37. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. A Framework for Design of Scheduled Output Feedback Model Predictive. Journal of Process Control, , vol. 18 (3-4), pages 391-398, March-April (2008).
  38. Vouzis, P. D., L. Bleris, M. V. Kothare and M. G. Arnold. A System-on-Chip implementation for Embedded Real-Time Model Predictive Control. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (to appear), December (2008).
  39. Tiwari, P., E. F. Mulder and M. V. Kothare. Simultaneous Linear and Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis using Multiobjective Convex Optimization. Automatica (to appear), November (2008).
  40. Tilmanne, J., J. Urbaine, M. V. Kothare, A. Vande Wouver, S. V. Kothare. Algorithms for Sleep-Wake Identification using actigraphy: A Comparative Study and New Results. Journal of Sleep Research (to appear) , December (2008).

C.3 Patents

1. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. Microreactor and method of use to produce hydrogen by methanol reforming. U.S. Patent application number 10/742,004 Pub. App. No. 20040179980, filed December (2003).

2. Kothare, M. V., M. G. Arnold, P. D. Vouzis, L. Bleris and J. Garcia. Iterative Matrix Processor-based Implementation of Real-Time Model Predictive Control. U.S. PTO patent application serial number 60/862,236, filed October (2007).

C.4 Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Kothare, M. V., V. Balakrishnan and M. Morari. Robust Constrained Model Predictive using Linear Matrix Inequalities. In Proceedings of the 1994 American Control Conference, pages 440-444, Baltimore, MD, June (1994).
  2. Kothare, M. V., V. Nevistic and M. Morari. Robust Constrained Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems: A Comparative Study. In Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 2884-2885, New Orleans, December (1995).
  3. Kothare, M. V. and M. Morari. Multiplier Theory for Stability Analysis of Anti-Windup Control Systems. In Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 3767-3772, New Orleans, December (1995).
  4. Kothare, M. V. and M. Morari. Stability Analysis of Constrained Linear Time-Invariant Systems. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Control, Optimization and Supervision, pages 1032-1037, multiconference on ``Computational Engineering in Systems Applications'' sponsored by IMACS and co-sponsored by IEEE-SMC, Lille, France, July 9-12 (1996).
  5. Kothare, M. V., B. Mettler, M. Morari, P. Bendotti and C.-M. Falinower. Level Control in the Steam Generator of a Nuclear Power Plant. In Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 4851-4856, Kobe, Japan, December (1996).
  6. Kaiser, O., R. Pfiffner, M. V. Kothare, F. J. Kraus, C. Rhodes and M. Morari. Modeling and Robust Control of Active Noise Cancellation Systems. In Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 2355-2356, Kobe, Japan, December (1996).
  7. P. Bendotti, C.-M. Falinower, Kothare, M. V., B. Mettler and M. Morari. \mu Analysis and Hinfinity-Controller Synthesis for the Steam Generator Water Level. In Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, pages 501-506, Budapest, Hungary, June 25-27, (1997).
  8. Kothare, M. V., B. Mettler, M. Morari, P. Bendotti and C.-M. Falinower. Linear Parameter Varying Model Predictive Control for Steam Generator Level Control. In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering-7 (ESCAPE-7)/Process Systems Engineering'97 (PSE'97) (jointly organized), Trondheim, Norway (1997).
  9. Kothare, M. V. and M. Morari. Multivariable Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis using Multiobjective Optimization. In Proceedings of the 1997 American Control Conference, pages 3093-3097, Albuquerque, NM, June (1997).
  10. Kothare, M. V. and M. Morari. Stability Analysis of Anti-Windup Control Systems: A Review and Some Generalizations. In Proceedings of the 3rd European Control Conference, vol. 6, Part B, Brussels, Belgium, July (1997).
  11. Kothare, M. V., R. Shinnar, I. Rinard and M. Morari. On Defining the Partial Control Problem: Concepts and Examples. In Proceedings of the 1998 American Control Conference, pages 2103-2107, Philadelphia, PA, June (1998).
  12. Kothare, M. V., M. Skliar, B. W. Bequette and A. Palazoglu. Emerging Techniques in Process Control: A Critique. In Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference, pages 144-149, San Diego, CA, June 2-4 (1999).
  13. Mulder, E. F., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Anti-windup Controller Synthesis using Iterative Linear Matrix Inequalities. In Proceedings of the 1999 European Control Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 31 - September 3 (1999).
  14. Mulder, E. F. and M. V. Kothare. Synthesis of Stabilizing Anti-Windup Controllers using Piecewise Quadratic Lyapunov functions. In Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference, pages 3239-3243, Chicago, IL, June 28-30 (2000).
  15. Özkan, L., C. Georgakis and M. V. Kothare. Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems using Piecewise Linear Models. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering}, Keystone, CO, pages 793-799, July 16-21 (2000).
  16. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. A Computationally Efficient Formulation of Robust Model Predictive Control using Linear Matrix Inequalities. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Chemical Process Control - CPC 6, pages 443-447, Tucson, AZ, January 7-12 (2001) (AIChE Symposium series No. 328, Vol. 98 appeared in 2002).
  17. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Robust Output Feedback Model Predictive Control using off-line Linear Matrix Inequalities. In Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, pages 2406-2411, Arlington, VA, June 25-27 (2001).
  18. Pattekar, A. V., M. V. Kothare, S. V. Karnik, M. K. Hatalis. A microreactor for in-situ hydrogen production by catalytic methanol reforming. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Microreaction Technology (IMRET 5), Strasbourg, France, May (2001).
  19. Karnik, S. V., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Palladium based Micro-Membrane for Water Gas Shift Reaction and Hydrogen Gas Separation. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Microreaction Technology (IMRET 5), Strasbourg, France, May (2001).
  20. Karnik, S. V., H. X. Vo, M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Polysilicon diodes as temperature sensors for chemical microreaction systems. In Proceedings of the 2001 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, pages 174-177, Washington, DC, December (2001).
  21. Mulder, E. F. and M. V. Kothare. Static Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis using Simultaneous Convex Design. In Proceedings of the 2002 American Control Conference, pages 651-656, Anchorage, AK, May (2002).
  22. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Computationally Efficient Scheduled Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems with Stability Guarantees. In Proceedings of the 2002 American Control Conference, pages 4487-4492, Anchorage, AK, May (2002).
  23. Özkan, L., M. V. Kothare and C. Georgakis. Control of a Solution Co-polymerization Reactor using Piecewise Linear Models. In Proceedings of the 2002 American Control Conference, pages 3864-3869, Anchorage, AK, May (2002).
  24. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Efficient Scheduled Stabilizing Output Feedback Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems. Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, pages 489-494, Denver, CO, June (2003).
  25. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. A Two-Level Model Predictive Control Formulation for Stabilization and Optimization. Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, pages 5294-5299, Denver, CO, June (2003).
  26. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Model Based Control of Temperature Distribution in Integrated Microchemical Systems. Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, pages 1308-1313, Denver, CO, June (2003).
  27. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Finite Elements Method Simulations on Microchannels for Control and Reduce Order Modelling Applications. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Mathematics and Informatics for Industry - MII2003, pages 163-169, Thessaloniki, Greece, May (2003).
  28. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Membrane Microreactors: Modeling, Design and Operability. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Microreaction Technology (IMRET-7), Lausanne, Switzerland, September (2003).
  29. Mukherjee, S., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Hybrid Micro Membrane Micro Reactor for in situ pure Hydrogen production. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Microreaction Technology (IMRET-7), Lausanne, Switzerland, September (2003).
  30. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. Fuel processing microreactors for hydrogen production in micro fuel cell applications. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Microreaction Technology (IMRET-7), Lausanne, Switzerland, September (2003).
  31. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. A Framework for Design of Scheduled Output Feedback Model Predictive Control. Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM), pages 71-76, Hong Kong, January (2004).
  32. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Boundary control of thermal transients in microsystems using proper orthogonal decomposition. Proceedings of the International Conference of Influence of Traditional Mathematics and Mechanics on Modern Science and Technology , Messini, Greece, May 24-28, 2004.
  33. Bleris, L and M. V. Kothare. Reduced order control in Microchemical Systems. Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference , pages 4225-4230, Boston, MA, June (2004).
  34. Grieder, P., Z. Wan, M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Two-level Model Predictive Control for the Maximum Control Invariant Set. Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference , pages 1586-1591, Boston, MA, June (2004).
  35. Bleris, L., M. V. Kothare, J. Garcia, M. Arnold. Embedded Model Predictive Control for System-on-Chip Applications. Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS-7), Boston, MA, July (2004).
  36. Garcia, J., M. G. Arnold, Bleris, L. G. and M. V. Kothare. LNS Architectures for Embedded Model Predictive Control Processor Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, Pages 79-84, Washington, DC, September (2004).
  37. Kothare, M. V., A. V. Pattekar, K. A. Alfadhel, L. Bleris and S. Mukherjee. Microreactors for Efficient On-Chip Fuel Processing and Hydrogen Generation. Proceedings of the Conference 5592 on Nanofabrication: Technologies, Devices and Applications, Optics East, Philadelphia, PA, October 25-28 (2004).
  38. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Entropy of Spatiotemporal Data as a Dynamic Truncation Indicator for Model Reduction Applications. Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference , Portland, OR, June 8-10 (2005).
  39. Bleris, L. , J. Garcia and M. V. Kothare. Model Predictive Hydrodynamic Regulation of Microflows. Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference , Portland, OR, June 8-10 (2005).
  40. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Real-Time Implementation of Model Predictive Control. Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference , Portland, OR, June 8-10 (2005).
  41. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Micro-scale hydrogen separation for low-medium power fuel cell applications. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Development (ICERD -3) , Kuwait, November 21-23 (2005).
  42. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Palladium-based Membrane Microreactor for Micro-fuel Cell Applications. Proceedings of the Cairo 9th International Conference on Energy and Environment , Cairo, Egypt, March 13-17 (2005).
  43. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Real-Time Implementation of Model Predictive Control. Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference , pages 4166-4171, Portland, OR, June 8-10 (2005).
  44. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Micro-scale hydrogen separation for low-medium power fuel cell applications. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Energy Research \& Development (ICERD -3), Kuwait, November 21-23 (2005).
  45. Bleris, L. G. and M. V. Kothare. Implementation of Model Predictive Control for Glucose Regulation using a General Purpose Microprocessor. Proceedings of the Joint 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference CDC/ECC 2005, pages 5162-5167, Seville, Spain, December (2005).
  46. Kothare, M. V. Dynamics and Control of Integrated Microchemical Systems with Application to Micro-scale Fuel Processing. Proceedings of the 7th$ International Conference on Chemical Process Control (CPC 7), Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, January (2006).
  47. Bleris, L. G., P. D. Vouzis, M. G. Arnold and M. V. Kothare. Pathways for optimization-based drug delivery systems and devices. Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM2006), pages 515-520, Gramado, Brazil, April (2006).
  48. Bleris, L. G., P. D. Vouzis, M. G. Arnold and M. V. Kothare. A Co-Processor FPGA Platform for the Implementation of Real-Time Model Predictive Control. Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, page 1912-1917, Minneapolis, MN, June (2006).
  49. Pluymers, B., M. V. Kothare, J. A. K. Suykens, B. L. R. De Moor. Robust Synthesis of Constrained Linear State Feedback Using LMIs and Polyhedral Invariant Sets. Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, page 881-886, Minneapolis, MN, June (2006).
  50. Vouzis, P. D., L. G. Bleris, M. G. Arnold, M. V. Kothare. A Custom-made Algorithm-Specific Processor for Model Predictive Control. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE'06), Montreal, Canada, July 9-13 (2006).
  51. Vouzis, P. D., M. G. Arnold, L. G. Bleris, M. Kothare, Y. Cha. A Coprocessor Accelerator for Model Predictive Control, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Optimization for DSP and Embedded Systems, pp. 76-77, San Jose, CA, March 11 (2007).
  52. Tiwari, P., E. F. Mulder and M. V. Kothare. Multivariable anti-windup controller synthesis incorporating multiple convex constraints. Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, pages 5212-5217, New York, NY, July 11-13 (2007).
  53. Vouzis, P. D., S. Collange, M. Arnold and M. V. Kothare. Monte Carlo Logarithmic Number System for Model Predictive Control, 17th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27-29 August (2007).
  54. Kulkarni, V. V., M. V. Kothare and M. G. Safonov. Stabilizing Anti-Windup Controllers for Power Allocation in Cellular Networks. Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA June 11-13 (2008).
  55. Tiwari, P. and M. V. Kothare. Model Predictive Control of Cyclic Systems Using Linear Matrix Inequalities. Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference , Seattle, WA, June 11-13 (2008).

C.5 Refereed Abstracts

  1. Zheng, A. Q., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Anti-Windup Design for Internal Model Control. In the 1993 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, St. Louis, MO, November (1993).
  2. Kothare, M. V., P. J. Campo, M. Morari and C. N. Nett. A Unified Framework for the Study of Anti-Windup Designs. In the 1993 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, St. Louis, MO, November (1993).
  3. Kothare, M. V., P. J. Campo, M. Morari and C. N. Nett. Stability and Robustness Analysis of Anti-Windup Control Systems. In the1994 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, San Francisco, CA, November (1994).
  4. Kothare, M. V., V. Nevistic and M. Morari. Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems: A Comparative Study. In the 1995 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Miami, Fl, November (1995).
  5. Kothare, M. V., B. Mettler, M. Morari, P. Bendotti and C.-M. Falinower. Level Control in the Steam Generator of a Nuclear Power Plant. In the1996 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Chicago, IL, November (1996).
  6. Kothare, M. V., R. Shinnar, I. Rinard and M. Morari. Controlling Complex Chemical Processes using Partial Control Techniques. In the 1998 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Miami, FL, November (1998).
  7. Mulder, E. F. and M. V. Kothare. Multivariable Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis using Linear Matrix Inequalities. In the Third Midwest Process Control Workshop Abstracts, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Il, May 17 (1999).
  8. Özkan, L., C. Georgakis and M. V. Kothare. Adaptive Control of a Nonlinear Process with Multiple Models. In the1999 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Dallas, TX, November (1999).
  9. Mulder, E. F., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Multivariable Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis using Linear Matrix Inequalities. In the 1999 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Dallas, TX, November (1999).
  10. Karnik, S. V., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Issues involved in the fabrication of a Palladium based micro-membrane for hydrogen gas separation. In the 2000 AIChE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November (2000).
  11. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Robust Output Feedback Model Predictive Control using Linear Matrix Inequalities. In the 2000 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Los Angeles, CA, November (2000).
  12. Mulder, E. F. and M. V. Kothare. Multivariable Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis using Piecewise Quadratic Lyapunov functions. In the 2000 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Los Angeles, CA, November (2000).
  13. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. A Computationally Efficient MPC algorithm for LPV systems. In the 2001 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Reno, Nevada, November (2001).
  14. Mulder, E. F. and M. V. Kothare. Application of Piecewise Quadratic Lyapunov Functions in Optimal Anti-windup Controller Synthesis. In the 2001 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Reno, Nevada, November (2001).
  15. Karnik, S. V., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Palladium based micro-membrane hydrogen gas separator-reactor in a miniature fuel processor for micro fuel cells. In the abstracts of the Fall 2001 Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston, Massachusetts, November 26-30 (2001).
  16. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. Modeling, design and control of silicon based microchemical systems. In the 2002 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Indianpolis, IN, November (2002).
  17. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. Design and fabrication of a microreactor for hydrogen production by catalytic methanol reforming. In the 2002 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Indianpolis, IN, November (2002).
  18. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Modeling of Multicomponent Concentration Profiles in Membrane Microreactors. In the 2002 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Indianpolis, IN, November (2002).
  19. Wan, Z. and M. V. Kothare. Efficient Scheduled Stabilizing Output Feedback Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems. In the 2002 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Indianpolis, IN, November (2002).
  20. Mukherjee, S., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. A Novel Micro-Membrane Reactor for Fuel Cell Application. In the 2002 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Indianpolis, IN, November (2002).
  21. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. A Microreactor for In-Situ Hydrogen Production by Catalytic Steam Reforming of Methanol. Abstracts of the 2002 Cornell Nanofabrication Facility Annual Meeting &Career Fair, September 23-24, 2002.
  22. Mukherjee, S. and M. V. Kothare. Membrane Microreactor for Micro-fuel Cell Applications. 2003 Cornell Nanofabrication Facility Annual Meeting & Career Fair, September, 2003.
  23. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. Integrated microchemical systems for fuel processing in micro fuel cell applications. In the 2003 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November (2003).
  24. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. Miniature Fuel Processors and Fuel Cells for Portable Power: Industry Trends and Potential Applications. In the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, San Francisco, CA, November (2003).
  25. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based Control of Fluid Flow in Microchemical Systems. In the 2003 AIChE Annual Meeting , San Francisco, CA, November (2003).
  26. Al-Fadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Modeling and Simulation of Membrane Microseparators. In the 2003 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November (2003).
  27. Al-Fadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Membrane Microreactors: Modeling, Design and Operability. In the 2003 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November (2003).
  28. Wan, Z., M. V. Kothare, L. Jiang, V. de la Torre, L. T. Biegler, J. A. Mandler, B. E. Herb, V. G. Fox and M. M. Daichendt. Dynamics and Control of Cyclic Operations in Pressure Swing Adsorption. In the 2003 AIChE Annual Meeting , San Francisco, CA, November (2003).
  29. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. Fuel processing microreactors for hydrogen production in micro-fuel cell applications. Extended Abstracts of the 2003 Fuel Cell Seminar: Fuel Cells for a Secure, Sustainable Energy, Miami Beach, FL, November 3-6 (2003).
  30. Bleris, L. and M. V. Kothare. Efficient empirical modeling of distributed parameter systems. In the 2004 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts, Austin, TX, November (2004).
  31. Bleris, L. G., Garcia, J., M. Arnold and M. V. Kothare. Embedding Model Predictive Control for Microchemical Systems. In the 2004 AIChE Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 2004.
  32. Pattekar, A. V. and M. V. Kothare. A high-throughput radial packed-bed micro fuel processor for portable power applications. In 2004 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts , Austin, TX, November (2004).
  33. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. The Energy Equation in Microchemical Systems. In 2004 AIChE Annual Meeting Abstracts , Austin, TX, November (2004).
  34. Mukherjee, S., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Novel Glass Micro-reactor for Water Gas Shift Reaction Characterization. 2005 AIChE Spring Meeting, pages 2941-2942, Atlanta, GA, March (2005).
  35. Alfadhel, K. A. and M. V. Kothare. Transport Phenomena Applicable to Microchemical Systems. 2005 AIChE Spring Meeting, pages 2971-2972, Atlanta, GA, March (2005).
  36. Mukherjee, S., M. K. Hatalis and M. V. Kothare. Compact Glass Microreactors for Hydrogen Purification. In the 19th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November (2005).
  37. Vouzis, P., Bleris, L. G., Kothare M. V., M. G. Arnold. Towards a Co-design Implementation of a System for Model Predictive Control. 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, November (2005).
  38. Bleris, L. G. and M. V. Kothare. A General Purpose Processor Implementation of MPC for Insulin Delivery Devices. 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, November (2005).
  39. Tiwari, P, E. F. Mulder and M. V. Kothare. Static Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis Using Simulations Convex Design, 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, November (2005).
  40. Bleris, L. G., P. D. Vouzis, M. V. Kothare and M. G. Arnold. Model Predictive Control for embedded applications. 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November (2006).
  41. Vouzis, P. D., M. V. Kothare and M. G. Arnold. Evaluating robustness of embedded Model Predictive Control using Monte Carlo simulations. 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November (2006).
  42. Tilmanne, J., J. Urbaine, A. Vande Wouver, M. V. Kothare, S. V. Kothare. Algorithms for Sleep-Wake Identification using actigraphy: A Comparative Study and New Results. SLEEP 2007 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, abstract \#1024, Minneapolis, MN, June 9-14 (2007).
  43. Tiwari, P. and M. V. Kothare. Model Predictive Control Of Cyclic Systems Using Linear Matrix Inequalities. 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November (2007).
  44. Vouzis, P., M. G. Arnold and M. V. Kothare. Arithmetic Characterization Of Model Predictive Control Using Monte Carlo Arithmetic. 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November (2007).
  45. C. Siew-Wah, M. V. Kothare and S. Sircar. Feasibility Study of Miniature Oxygen Concentrator Via Pressure Swing Adsorption. 2008 AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November (2008).

C.6 Unrefereed Technical Reports

  1. Zheng, A., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Anti-Windup Design for Internal Model Control. Technical report No. CIT-CDS 93-007, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology (www.cds.caltech.edu/reports) (1993).
  2. Kothare, M. V., M. Morari, P. J. Campo and C. N. Nett. A Unified Framework for the Study of Anti-Windup Designs. Technical report No. CIT/CDS 93-011, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology (www.cds.caltech.edu/reports) (1993).
  3. Kothare, M. V., V. Balakrishnan and M. Morari. Robust Constrained Model Predictive Control using Linear Matrix Inequalities. Technical report No. CIT/CDS 95-011, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology (www.cds.caltech.edu/reports) (1995).
  4. Kothare, M. V. and M. Morari. Multiplier Theory for Stability Analysis of Anti-Windup Control Systems. Technical report No. CIT/CDS 96-012, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology (www.cds.caltech.edu/reports) (1996).
  5. Kothare, M. V. Control of Systems Subject to Constraints. Technical report No. CIT/CDS 97-005, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology (www.cds.caltech.edu/reports) (1997).
  6. Kothare, M. V., V. Nevistic and M. Morari. Robust Constrained Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems: A Comparative Study. Technical report No. AUT95-13, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (aut.ethz.ch) (1995).
  7. Kothare, M. V., V. Balakrishnan and M. Morari. Robust Constrained Model Predictive Control using Linear Matrix Inequalities. Technical report No. AUT95-02, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (aut.ethz.ch) (1995).
  8. Kothare, M. V. and M. Morari. Multiplier Theory for Stability Analysis of Anti-Windup Control Systems. Technical report No. AUT96-08, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (aut.ethz.ch) (1996).
  9. Kothare, M. V., B. Mettler, M. Morari, P. Bendotti and C-M. Falinower. Level Control in the Steam Generator of a Nuclear Power Plant. Technical report No. AUT97-10, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (aut.ethz.ch) (1997).
  10. Kothare, M. V. Control of Systems Subject to Constraints. Technical report No. AUT97-09, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (aut.ethz.ch) (1997). Mulder, E. F., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Multivariable Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis Using Linear Matrix
    Inequalities. Technical report No. AUT99-17, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (aut.ethz.ch) (1999).
  11. Mulder, E. F., M. V. Kothare and M. Morari. Multivariable Anti-Windup Controller Synthesis Using Bilinear Matrix Inequalities. Technical report No. AUT00-18, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (aut.ethz.ch) (2000).

D. Invited Seminars

D.1 Plenary/Keynote Lectures

  1. Oct. 1997. Perspectives in Constrained Process Control: Theory and Practice Plenary speaker at the 26th Industrial Advisory Committee Meeting of the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center, Lehigh University
  2. Jan. 2004. A Framework for Scheduled Output Feedback Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems, invited semi-plenary lecture at the 7th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM), Hong Kong
  3. Mar. 2005. Synthesis of Controllers for Constrained Systems, plenary talk at the 24th Annual Benelux (Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg) national meeting on Systems and Control, Houffalize, Belgium
  4. Mar. 2005. Dynamics and Control of Integrated Microchemical Systems, plenary talk at the 24th Annual Benelux (Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg) national meeting on Systems and Control, Houffalize, Belgium
  5. Jan. 2006. Dynamics and Control of Integrated Microchemical Systems, invited keynote at the 7th Conference on Chemical Process Control (CPC7), Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
  6. May 2007. Linear Matrix Inequalities in Chemical Process Control, Invited keynote/featured speaker, 2007 Advanced Process Control workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada

D.2 Invited Seminars

  1. Oct. 1993. A Unified Framework for the Study of Anti-Windup Control Systems, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  2. Mar. 1995. Robust Constrained Model Predictive Control using Linear Matrix
    Inequalities    , Institut für Automatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
    Zürich, Switzerland
  3. Dec. 1996. Constrained Control of Linear Systems. Institut für Automatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
  4. Mar. 1997. Control of Constrained Systems, Dept. of Chem. Eng., City College
    of New York, New York, NY
  5. Oct. 1999. Perspectives in Constrained Process Control: Theory and Practice, Dept. of Chem. Eng. seminar series, Lehigh University.
  6. Mar. 2000. Constrained Process Control: Theory and Practice, Dept. of Mech. Eng. seminar series, Lehigh University
  7. Apr. 2000 Some Research Problems in Constrained Process Control and Integrated Microchemical Systems. Invited speaker at the 15th anniversary meeting of the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center,
    Lehigh Univ.
  8. May 2000. An Integrated Chemical Reforming Microplant for Fuel Cell
    Applications     `, National Science Foundation ``Engineering Microsystems - XYZ on a Chip" grantees workshop, Washington, DC
  9. Sept. 2000. Chemical Microplant on a Chip: Miniature Fuel Processing for
    Portable Power    , kick-off meeting of the grantees of the Pittsburgh Digital
    Greenhouse, Pittsburgh, PA
  10. May 2001. Some research problems in constrained process control and integrated microchemical systems, Process Control Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
  11. July 2001. Smart Microchemical Plant-on-Chip for High
    Performance MicroscalePortable Power    , annual review and kick-off
    meeting of the grantees of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse,
    Pittsburgh, PA
  12. Sept. 2001. Research in Linear Matrix Inequalities and Integrated Microchemical Systems, ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas
  13. Sept. 2001. Integrated Microchemical Systems: Chemical ``Plant-on-chip'', fall'2001, colloquium of the Retired University Faculty (RUF), Lehigh University
  14. Aug. 2002. Smart Microchemical Plant-on-Chip for High Performance Microscale Portable Power, final review meeting of the grantees of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, Pittsburgh, PA
  15. Oct. 2002. Issues in Micro and Nano-scale Power Devices, Pennsylvania
    Nanotechnology 2002, invited panelist in the panel``Nanotechnology Needs for the Energy and Environment'', Harrisburg, PA
  16. Oct. 2002. Linear Matrix Inequalities in Systems and Control. Optimization Seminar Series, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
  17. April 2003. Analysis and Synthesis of Feedback Controllers for Actuator Limited Multivariable Systems, Department of Mathematics Colloquium, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
  18. May 2003. Fuel Processing Microreactors for Hydrogen Production by Methanol Reforming , The Knowledge Foundation's 5th International
    Symposium ``Small Fuel Cells 2003'', Small Fuel Cells for Portable Power
    Applications, New Orleans, LA (with A. Pattekar).
  19. Oct. 2003. Integrated Microchemical Systems with Applications in Micro-Reforming . Corning Incorporated Corporate Technology Office, Corning, NY
  20. Nov. 2003. Integrated Microchemical Systems with Applications in Micro-Reforming . Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, NY.
  21. Feb. 2004. Integrated Microchemical Systems . Group presentation at the New Jersey Center for Microchemical Systems, Steven Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
  22. Feb. 2004. A Framework for Design of Scheduled Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems, DuPont, Wilmington, DE
  23. Sept. 2004. High Performance Embedded Model Predictive Control System-on-Chip, kick-off meeting of the grantees of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, Pittsburgh, PA.
  24. July 2005. Control and Dynamical Systems Research at Lehigh University, Petrobras,
    25. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  25. Aug. 2005. Efficient Scheduled Stabilizing Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems , invited talk at the International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Freudenstadt-Lauterbad, Germany
  26. Sept. 2005. Integrated Microchemical Systems with Application to Micro-Scale Fuel Processing, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
  27. Oct. 2005. Integrated Microchemical Systems with Application to Micro-Scale Fuel Processing, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA
  28. Nov. 2005. Synthesis of Controllers for Constrained Systems, Robotics, Mechatronics and Control Colloquium, (jointly with Dept. of Aero,ME, EE and CHE), University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  29. Jan. 2006. Synthesis of Controllers for Constrained Systems, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  30. May 2006. Efficient Scheduled Model Predictive Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems, invited talk at the NSF workshop on ``Mathematical Modeling and Control of Plasmas in Magnetic Fusion''
  31. May 2006. Dynamics and Control of Integrated Microchemical Systems with Application to Micro-Scale Fuel Reforming, Department of Chemical Engineering, U. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  32. April 2007. Dynamics and Control of Integrated Microchemical Systems with Application to Micro-Scale Fuel Reforming, GE Water and Process Technology, Trevose, PA

E. Research Advising and Supervision

E.1 Current Graduate Students

  1. Chai Siew-Wah. Anticipated Ph.D. in June 2011. Thesis title: Micro-pressure swing adsorption for high purity oxygen production, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University
  2. Gautam Kumar. Anticipated Ph.D. in June 2011. Thesis title: Optimal Control of Stochastic Systems, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University

E.2 Past Postdoctoral Scholar supervised

  1. Dr. Jesus Garcia (Ph.D. in Computer Science from Lehigh University, August - December 2004, jointly with Prof. M. Arnold).

E.3 Visiting Faculty

  1. Professor H. Wang, East China University of Science and Technology, Department of Automation, May - September 2006.

E.4 Graduated Students

E.4.1 Ph.D. Level

  1. Eric F. Mulder. Ph.D. in June 2002. Thesis title: Synthesis of Actuator Limited Multivariable Control Systems, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University.
    Affiliation after graduation: Assistant Professor, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.
    Current Affiliation: ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, TX.
  2. Leyla Özkan. Ph.D. in September 2002. Transition Control Techniques in Nonlinear Process Control, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University.
    Affiliation after graduation: Post-doctoral research associate, University of New Castle, UK.
    Current Affiliation : IPCOS, Netherlands
  3. Sooraj Karnik. Ph.D. in June 2002. Materials and Design Issues in Engineering Microsystems. Department of Electrical Engineering, Lehigh
    University.
    Current affiliation: INTEL, Portland, OR
  4. Zhaoyang Wan. Ph.D. in June 2003. Thesis title: Efficient Model Predictive Control via Convex Optimization, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University.
    Current affiliation: GE Betz, Trevose, PA.
  5. Ashish V. Pattekar. Ph.D. in August 2004. Thesis title: Integrated Microchemical Systems for Methanol Reforming. Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University.
    Affiliation after graduation : Nu Element Inc., Tacoma, WA.
    Current Affiliation : Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox), CA
  6. Khaled Al-Fadhel. Ph.D. in December 2004. Thesis title: Mathematical Modeling of Integrated Microchemical Systems, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University.
    Current affiliation Assistant Professor, Kuwait University.
  7. Leonidas Bleris. Ph.D. in March 2006. Thesis title: Dynamics and Control of Integrated Microchemical Systems: From Practical Theoretical Approaches to Model Predictive Control On-A-Chip., Department of Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University
    Current affiliation: Postdoc, Harvard U., FAS Center for Systems Biology
  8. Samrat Mukherjee. Ph.D. in December 2006. Thesis title: Integrated Microchemical Systems for processing Methanol Reformer effluents for Portable Fuel Cell Applications, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University
    Current affiliation: Bayer Corporation, Baytown, TX
  9. Panagiotis Vouzis (joint with M. Arnold,Comp. Sci.). Ph.D. in March 2008. Thesis title: Cotransformation for the Logarithmic Number System with application to Model Predictive Control, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University
    Current affiliation: Postoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  10. Pradeep Tiwari. Ph.D. in June 2008. Thesis title: Convex Optimal Control of Constrained and Periodic Systems, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University
    Current affiliation: Bayer Corporation, Baytown, TX

E.4.2 M.S. Level

  1. Khaled Al-Fadhel. M.S.. in June 2001. Thesis title: Analytical Approaches to Multicomponent Diffusion and the 3D Navier-Stokes (NS) equations for Flow in Isothermal Microseparators, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University.
  2. Paul Gillain, visiting student from Faculte Polytechnic Mons, Belgium. Diploma in June 2005. Thesis title: Actigraphy and its Capabilities for Studying Sleep.
  3. Joelle Tilmanne, visiting students from Faculte Polytechnic Mons, Belgium. Diploma in June (2006). Thesis title: Automatic sleep/wake scoring using actigraphy: A comparative study of different scoring algorithms including the use of neural networks and decision trees. .
  4. Jerome Urbaine, visiting students from Faculte Polytechnic Mons, Belgium. Diploma in June (2006). Thesis title: Automatic sleep/wake scoring using actigraphy: A comparative study of different scoring algorithms including the use of neural networks and decision trees. .

E.5 Undergraduate Research Supervision

  1. Simon Bailey and Brian Pennock. Hot Liquid Process Simulator. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (1999). B.S. in Chemical Engineering, U. of Nottigham, UK and Lehigh University respectively.
  2. Jake Towne. Summer Research on ``An Integrated Chemical Reforming Microplant for Fuel Cell Applications''. Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) summer research report submitted to the
    National Science Foundation, August (2000). B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, 2001.
  3. Joshua Tilghman and Mobolaji Kamson. Test fixture for microfluidic interfacing with integrated microchemical systems. Semester research progress report, Fall 2000 and Spring 2001. B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh U., 2001.
  4. James Wertman (CHE, Carnegie Mellon University). Summer Research on ``Microfluidic Interfacing and Catalysis Issues in a Methanol Microreformer''. Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) summer research report submitted to the National Science Foundation, August (2001). B.S. in Carnegie Mellon University, 2003.
  5. Aaron Greiner. Micro-thermal Heat Transfer Issues in Methanol Micro-reformers for Micro-fuel Cell Applications. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (2002). B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh U., 2002.
  6. Tillus Beverly. Integration of a Hydrogen micro-fuel cell with a micro-reformer: Performance Evaluation and Characterization. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (2003). B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh U., 2003.
  7. Stephanie Brown and Joseph Colangelo. Scale effects in reactions kinetics. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (2004). B. S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh U., 2004.
  8. James Reebel and Jonathan Sawoska. Micro-Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Feasibility Study. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (2004). B. S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh U., 2004.
  9. Nathan Tilghman. Comparison of Algorithms to Score Sleep/Wake Behaviors: A First Glance. Independent semester research report, May (2004). B. S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh U., 2005.
  10. Choon Foo and Katherine Newman. Feasiblity of Micro-Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (2005). B. S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh U., 2005.
  11. Jeremy Eberhardt. Actigraphy for sleep monitoring. Independent semester research report, December (2004). B. S. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh U., 2005.
  12. Choon Foo and Katherine Newman. Feasibility of Micro-Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (2005).
  13. Mark McCaulley. Wireless Electroencephalogram (EEG) Monitoring for Sleep Disorder Patient. Final report in Bioengineering, May (2006).
  14. Brian Doyle and Mike Markowski. Identification of Sleep and Wake using Partial Least Squares. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (2007).
  15. Michael Stern and Phil Bresnahan. Low Volume Toxic Metal Detection in Waste Water Using HIM. Opportunities for Student Innovation (OSI) project final report, May (2008).

F. Service

F.1 Service to University

1999 - 2002. University Committee on Discipline

2004 - present. Lehigh University Research Council
2005 - present. Lehigh U. junior faculty mentoring group
2005 Provost's committee for evaluating endowed professor nominations
2005 - 2006. Vice Provost for Research committee on promotion evaluation for research staff
F.2 Service to College

Jan. 2002 - present. Member, College CAREER Award Mentors Committee

April 2002 - present. Member, U.S. News and World Reports committee on engineering ranking

May 2003 - present. Faculty Fellow for assisting junior faculty in the College.

Oct. 2003 - April 2004. Member of Mechanical Eng. Faculty Search Committee

Oct. - Dec. 2004. Member, College Dean Search Committee

Jan. 2006 - present. Member, Dean's Advisory Council in Science and Engineering

F.3 Service to Interdisciplinary Programs

Jan. 2002 - present. Co-director, Chemical Process Modeling and
Control Research Center, an interdisciplinary Center conducting
research in systems and control

F.4 Service to Department

1998 - present. Member, Chemical Engineering Computer Classroom Committee

1998 - present. Member, Chemical Engineering Graduate Affairs Committee

2000 - present. Member, Chemical Engineering Curriculum Evaluation and Task Force Committee

2001 - present. Member, Chemical Engineering Faculty Search Commitee

2001 - present. Member, Chemical Engineering Rathbone Awards Committee

2002 - present. Member, Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Recruitment Committee

2003 - 2004. Seminar co-ordinator for Chemical Engineering.

2006 - present. Departmental long range planning committee

2006 - present. Departmental awards committee

2006 - 2008. AIChE Student Chapter advisor

F.5 Professional Service

F5.1 Peer Reviews
1993- present. Technical reviewer for Automatica, AIChE J., J. of Proc. Cont., IEEE Trans.Auto. Cont., IEEE Trans. Cont. Sys. Tech., Comput. & Chem. Eng., Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Int. J. Cont., Int. J. Rob. Nonlin. Cont., Int. Fed. Auto. Cont. (IFAC), IEEE Cont. Sys. Soc., J. of the Franklin Institute

1998 - present. Book reviewer for the Soc. for Ind. & App. Math. (SIAM)

F5.2 Editorial Appointments

F5.2.1 Journals

2003- present. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

2006- present. Associate Editor, Automatica

F5.2.2 Conferences

2001 - present. Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society

2001. Associate Editor, 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control

2001. Associate Editor, 2002 American Control Conference
(reviews completed in 2001)

2001. International Program Committee Member, 6th IFAC Symposium
on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS-6), Jejudo Island, Korea

2002. Associate Editor, 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control

Jan. 2003. Symposium Committee Member, International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and Control (ISPSEC'03) for Productivity Enhancement through Design and Optimization, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

2003-2004. National Organizing Committee for Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS-7), Boston, MA, July 5-8, 2004.

2003. Associate Editor, 2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

2005. Associate Editor, 2005 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (jointly organized)

2005. Associate Editor, 2006 American Control Conference

2005-2006. International Program Committee Member and Program Co-Chair for Technical Area ``Modeling and Identification'', International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM 2006), Gramado, Brazil,2006

2006. Associate Editor, 2006 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

2008. Program co-ordinator, CAST10B (Systems and Process Control) division of the AIChE

2008. AIChE Society Review Chair, 2008 American Control Conference.

2008. Webcast chair, Computing & Systems Technology (CAST) division of AIChE.

F5.3 National Panels

1999. Panel reviewer for the National Science Foundation

2000. Panel reviewer for the National Science Foundation

1999 - present. Reviewer of regular proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation

2001. Reviewer for the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund

2003. Panel reviewer, National Science Foundation.

2004. Panel reviewer, National Science Foundation.

2005. Panel reviewer, National Science Foundation.

2006. Panel reviewer, National Science Foundation.

2007. Panel reviewer, National Science Foundation.

2008. Panel reviewer, National Science Foundation.

 

F5.4 Sessions Organized/Chaired

  1. Kothare, M. V. (session organizer and chair) and M. Morari (co-chair). Control of Systems Subject to Input and Output Constraints. Invited session at the 1997 American Control Conference, Albuquerque, NM, (June 1997).
  2. Kothare, M. V. (session organizer and chair) and M. Skliar (co-chair). Emerging Techniques in Process Control. Invited session at the 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, June 2-4, 1999.
  3. Kothare, M. V. (chair) and A. N. Michel (co-chair). Nonlinear Discrete Time Robustness. Regular session at the 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, June (1999).
  4. Kothare, M. V. (session organizer and chair) and K. R. Muske (co-chair). Linear Matrix Inequalities in Process Control. Invited session at the 2000 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, June 28-30, 2000.
  5. Manousiothakis, V. (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Advances in Process Control. Regular session at the 2000 AIChE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November (2000).
  6. Kothare, M. V. (session organizer and chair) and E. S. Meadows (co-chair). Multi-Model Techniques in Nonlinear Process Control. Invited session at the 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June 25-27, 2001.
  7. Crisalle, O. (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Control of Semi-Conductor Manufacturing Processes. Regular session at the 2001 AIChE Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, November (2001).
  8. Allgöwer, F. (chair) and M. V. Kothare (session organizer and co-chair). Recent Advances in Model Predictive Control. Invited session at the 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2002.
  9. Teel, A. R. (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Anti-windup and saturated control. Regular session at the 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2002.
  10. Kothare, M. V. (session organizer and chair) and F. Allgöwer (co-chair). Computationally Efficient Formulations of Model Predictive Control. Invited session at the 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2002.
  11. Kothare, M. V. (chair) and T. A. Badgwell (co-chair). Advances in Process Control. Regular session at the 2002 AIChE Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, November (2002).
  12. Kothare, M. V. (session organizer and chair) and F. Allgöwer (co-chair). Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. Invited session at the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, June (2003).
  13. McClamroch, N. H. (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Constrained Nonlinear Systems I. Regular session at the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, June (2003).
  14. Kothare, M. V. (chair) and D. Afolabi (co-chair). Optimal Control. Regular session at the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, June (2003).
  15. Soroush, M. (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Control of Hybrid Systems. Regular session at the 2003 AIChE Annual Meeting , San Francisco, CA, November (2003).
  16. Kothare, M. V. (chair) and A. van de Wouver (co-chair). Model Predictive Control. Contributed session at the 7th IFAC symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM) , Hong Kong, January (2004).
  17. Grimble, M. (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Linear Model Predictive Control - III. Regular session at the 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, July (2004).
  18. Kothare, M. V. (chair). Keynote session 5, 7th IFAC Conference on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS-7) , Boston, MA, July 5-7 (2004)
  19. Kothare, M. V. (chair) and M. Gallivan (co-chair). Advances in Process Control. Regular session at the 2004 AIChE Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November (2004).
  20. M. A. Henson (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Nonlinear Process Control. Regular session at the 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, November (2005).
  21. S. Hauan (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Design and Operation of Micro-Processes. Regular session at the 2005 AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, November (2005).
  22. R. Judd (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Control Applications II. Regular session at the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June (2005).
  23. M. V. Kothare (program area co-chair for Modeling and Identification). International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM 2006), Gramado, Brazil, April 2006.
  24. M. V. Kothare (chair) and P. Barton (co-chair). Fuel cells and microchemical systems modeling. Regular session at the 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November (2006).
  25. R. D. Braatz (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Advances in nonlinear control. Regular session at the 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November (2006).
  26. R. Young (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Recent developments in systems and process control. Poster session at the 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November (2007).
  27. D. Seborg (chair) and M. V. Kothare (co-chair). Nonlinear Process Control. Regular session at the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA (2008).
  28. M. V. Kothare (chair) and M. Soroush (co-chair). Recent advances in systems and process control. Poster session at the 2008 AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November (2008).

F5.5 Workshops Organized

Half-day workshop on industrial Model Predictive Control technology, October 28, 1999, Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center, Lehigh University. Invited industrial speakers included representatives from Air Products & Chemicals Inc., AspenTech, DuPont Engineering, Mitsubishi Chemical, Enterprise Control Technologies.

G. Professional Affiliations

1992 - present. Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

1992 - present. Member, Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of the AIChE

1994 - 2006. Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

2006 - present. Senior Member, IEEE

1994 - present. Member, IEEE Control System Society

2000 - present. Member, IEEE Electron Devices Society

2000 - present. Member, Sigma Xi

2000 - present. Member, American Association for the Advancement
of Science

 



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