Management Team
Dr. Kumar Eswaran, Ph. D Chairman and Managing Director, AI&C(M.S IIT Kanpur, Ph. D. Univ of Madras. Post Doctoral fellow: IIT Delhi and Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio).
Experience:
After his doctorate, Kumar Eswaran served more than 25 years as a Research Manager in the Research and Development Division of a very large profit making Public Sector. (He also is an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science teaching B. Tech & M. Tech Students).
Defense Projects:
During his career in BHEL R&D, he was a project manager and over all in-charge of many groups which successfully executed defense projects for DLRL(Hyderabad), ADA (Bangalore), NPOL(Naval Physical and Oceanographic Lab, Cochin) and DRDL (Hyderabad). These projects dealt with the development of cooling systems (for the LCA), structural and thermal performance of heat shields for missiles as well as problems involving detection of underwater objects by sonar (scattering of sound waves underwater).
Expertise:
Computational Techniques in Image Processing, AI and Neural Networks. He has more than 35 publications in international journals and conferences in the areas of Image Processing, AI and Numerical methods applied to Engg. Problems. He has successfully guided several doctoral students to obtain their Ph.Ds in renowned institutions in the country (IITs and top Universities).
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R.S. Raghavan, Director (Technical)
(M.E, BITS Pilani)
Experience
R S Raghavan has bachelor of engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Madras, with specialization in power electronics and master of engineering degree in electronics from BITS, Pilani, with specialization in micro-electronics.
He has worked with multinationals such as International Instruments Pvt. Ltd. (VDO, Germany) Bangalore India; Bharat Heavy Electricals LTD (CE, USA/KWU, Germany/ABB Switzerland/ G.E USA); Pan Emirates Engg (Colt Engg. Canada) Abu Dhabi. He has carried out plant reviews on behalf of American Bureau of Shipping and Bureau Veritas. He is trained as SAP super user in plant maintenance modules.
Expertise:
His 30 years of experience covers development of microwave front ends, digital techniques in transportation, field engineering and maintenance support services for power utilities, oil/gas platforms and gas processing industry. These cover services such as; performance monitoring and model validation of power & process equipment, control system design, commissioning of industrial and process automation systems, networking of SCADA systems etc. He has made significant contribution to the modernization of ADGAS LNG Plant Fire safety and CCTV surveillance with intelligent fire, smoke, heat and flare detection and processing systems.
He has hands on experience / system exposure to major field instruments, Valves, Analyzer, Test Facilities, DCS such as PROCONTROL P 13/42 WDPF, INFI 90, TDC 3000, CENTUM, CONTRONIC 3, TELEPERM ME; PLC/PC such as AB PLC 5, MODICON 584/984, CCC series 3, GE SPEEDTRONIC mark 4.
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Dr. Srikant Bhave, Chief Advisor,
( B.E., M.E., Ph.D)
Dr. Bhave is a very eminent engineer who started his career after completing his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.
Experience
He has worked in BHEL R&D where he was a General Manger and has a very vast experience of more than 30 years in the failure analysis, diagnostics and life assessment and of power plant systems. He is very well known throughout the country for his expertise in these fields and has been a technical consultant for many companies such as L&T, Reliance, Tatas etc. He has published many international papers and guided many doctoral students.
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Dr.N.S. MURTY, Advisor(Engineering Services)
( B.E, M.E, Ph.D)
Dr. N.S. Murty did his bachelors degree from Andhra University and then his M.Tech and Ph. D degrees in IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras
After working as a post doctoral fellow he joined BHEL R&D and served there for more than 28 years retiring as Additional General Manager. He is an expert in Heat transfer and in the design of heat exchanger systems and in the assessment of performance power plant systems. He is our consultant and guide in the supervising various engineering software which is under development.
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A .Ranga REDDY,Engineering Coordinator (Marketing),
(M.Tech)
Has worked for more than three decades in the area of process instrumentation and controls for power plants, pilot plants and had setup facilities from concept to commissioning. He has developed and commercialized advanced control strategies and monitoring systems for thermal power plants. He was a Senior Deputy General Manager in BHEL He has an M.Tech in instrumentation from IIT Kharagpur
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Dr . Srini Chari, Ph.D., M.B.A., Advisor
(MS IIT, Madras in Mechanical Engineering, Ph. D. in Computational Mechanics from the University of Texas, Austin, MBA with Distinction from the Stern School of Business at New York University, special executive education from Harvard Business School).
Experience
Prior to joining AI&C, he was the President and CEO of TurboWorx, Inc. a software company providing workflow solutions for grids and clusters. Dr. Chari has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology. He spent 13 years with IBM and held several technical, marketing, and sales positions in high performance computing, e-business, and computer aided design and manufacturing. His last position at IBM was Program Director, Emerging Businesses and Corporate Strategy. Prior to his position in corporate strategy, he was an early founding member of the IBM Life Sciences business unit and contributed to the rapid growth of this business. He was Senior Manager of Architecture and Strategy, IBM Life Sciences and was responsible for managing a wide range of IT architecture and development initiatives in conjunction with customers and business partners.
Dr. Chari has published extensively and has delivered over thirty presentations on technology, leadership, and high performance computing.
He resides in Danbury, Connecticut and is active in mentoring technology professionals with an avid interest in business through his regular networking with the alumni of the institutions he was privileged to get his education and experience from.
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Rajeev Seshadri, M.B.A., Advisor
Rajeev was graduated with an MBA degree with Distinction from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He also holds a BTech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur in India. He has held the NASD/SEC general principals license..
Experience
He has worked in the Perimeter Security industry over the past 5 years, developing a consolidation through acquisitions and upgrades of companies in the Western half of the USA. The Perimeter Security industry involves installation of physical barriers as well as detection and response systems such as video or sensor surveillance systems. An example is the Electronic Security Systems at the Columbia River Dams upgrade installed by one of Rajeevs companies in a multi-million dollar contract as part of a Homeland Security initiative by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
With the intimate knowledge of the state of the perimeter security industry in the USA, he has identified several technological trends in the industry that could benefit from live video face recognition and attendant technologies.
In a twenty-four year business career in the USA, Rajeev been the CEO or CFO of several companies and has produced significant bottom-line results. Rajeev has developed and led business plans that have significantly enhanced shareholder value.
He has also worked in corporate finance, both as investment banker with a NASD/SEC registered securities company and later as consultant, and has obtained more that $25 million from the private and public capital markets for his clients. He has also located merger/acquisition partners and structured and negotiated merger and acquisition transactions under extreme constraints. Work has covered a range of industries.
Rajeev is listed in WHOS WHO in Finance and Industry 1988 ed.; and has been nominated to the Entrepreneur of the Year award by Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch and INC. magazine in 1990. He is a member of several professional organizations.
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Professor Vinayak Eswaran: (Advisor)
Prof. Vinayak Eswaran did his Bachelors and Masters in engineering from IIT Kanpur and did his PhD from State University of New York, Stony-Brook. He did his Post-Doc from Cornell University and then went onto be the faculty at SUNY (Stony-brook). He is an expert in the application of numerical techniques in engineering calculations. He has more than 20 years experience after his doctorate, he is presently working as a Professor in IIT Kanpur. He has developed software for DRDO (RCI) and BHEL.
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