Dinesh Krishnamoorthy Kallur

Short bio

Dinesh Krishnamoorthy is an Assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Eindhoven, where he is a part of the Control Systems Technology group.

He was a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dinesh received his PhD in Process Systems Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), MSc in Control Systems from Imperial College London, and B.Eng in Mechatronics from the University of Nottingham.

Dinesh also has more than four years of industrial research experience. He was working as a Senior Researcher at Statoil Research centre, Norway between 2012-2016, and was also a part-time Senior Data Science consultant for Novo Nordisk R&D (2021).

Dinesh is the recipient of the Dimitirs. N. Chorafas Foundation Award (as one of 35 worldwide), Excellence in Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) PhD Award by the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE), NTNU Faculty of Natural Sciences Best PhD Thesis Award, as well as IFAC Young author award.

His research interests include distributed optimization, numerical optimal control, real-time optimization, and Bayesian optimization, with applications mainly to energy systems.

News

• Jul 2024 - Keynote talk at IFAC ADCHEM, Toronto, Canada.
• Nov 2023 - Obtained University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) certification.
• Sept 2023 - Elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.
• Aug 2023 - Dinesh recieves the prestigious VENI grant from NWO - which is a Dutch early career starting grant (success rate = 11%).
• Jun 2023 - Dinesh recieves EuroTech Future Award recognizing early career contributions to a more sustainable world. [link]
• Feb 2023 - Dinesh named as one of the Outstanding Reviewers in 2022 for IEEE Control System Letters Journal.
• Nov 2022 - Dinesh recieves EuroFusion Engineering Grant [link]
• Feb 2021 - Paper entitled “Optimal Resource Allocation using Distributed Feedback Real-time Optimization” has been accepted as a Keynote paper at IFAC ADCHEM 2021.
• Jan 2021 - Dinesh receives the Best PhD Fellow Award from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at NTNU.
• Oct 2020 - Dinesh receives the prestigious Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award for best PhD thesis (one of 35 worldwide). [link]
• Sept 2020 - Article (in Norwegian) about my PhD award and my views on early career research appears on Universitets Avisa. [link]
• Sept 2020 - Dinesh receives Excellence in Computer Aided Process Engineering Award from the CAPE working party of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE).
• Aug 2020 - Peder Sather Research grant awarded together with Prof. Ali Mesbah at UC Berkeley (USD24k).
• Feb 2020 - Dinesh receives MDPI Processes Post-Doc Travel Award.
• Nov 2019 - Successfully defended PhD thesis entitled “Novel Approaches to Online Process Optimization under Uncertainty” [photo]
• June 2019 - Dinesh receives NSF Young Researcher Travel Award to present his work at the Foundations on Process Analytics and Machine learning meeting in Raleigh, NC.
• July 2018 - Dinesh gives keynote talk at IFAC ADCHEM 2018, held in Shenyang, China. [pdf] [slides]