Jaivik Mankad

Jaivik Mankad joined the HILCPS group as a PhD Scholar. He completed his B.E. in Instrumentation & Control Engineering from Gujarat Technological University in 2013. He earned his M.Tech in Chemical Engineering in 2016 from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India.

After his B.E., he undertook training in industrial automation from Neo Creative Vision Technologies in 2013-14 where he worked with PLC and SCADA from various manufacturers. During his M.Tech. He worked on Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for application on MIMO temperature control system. He is currently working on performance monitoring and control of water distribution networks as a part of his PhD thesis.

His interest lies in the areas of optimization-based control, data science, and machine learning. His research interest lies in the areas of intelligent and cyber-physical design by incorporation of learning and optimization for process control applications. He likes to spend his time reading, coding and travelling.