About

Rahul Madbhavi joined the HILCPS group as a PhD scholar in 2018. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering in 2016 from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. After his graduation, he worked as a Big Data Developer at Wipro, Bangalore.

His research interests are in the fields of monitoring and control of cyber-physical systems. He is currently working on sensor placement and state estimation methods for power distribution systems. His recent publications include tensor completion based state estimation methods for distribution systems and sensor placement for water distribution systems.

Rahul is also an avid programmer and started coding from the age of 11. He has worked with more than 15 programming and scripting languages, to deliver projects in various capacities as a student, a researcher, a developer and as a hobbyist programmer. He enjoys automating tasks and writing code which utilize distributed and cloud computing. He spends his free time learning programming languages, playing darts, cycling and listening to music.

Experience

Research Scholar

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

July 2018 - Present

Teaching Assistant

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

  • Introduction to Electrical Systems
  • Introduction to Analog and Digital Electronics
  • Introduction to Computing
  • July 2018 - Present

    Graduate Teaching Fellow

    Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

  • Introduction to Analog and Digital Electronics
  • January 2020 - July 2020

    Visiting Scholar

    Kansas State University
    Manhattan, Kansas, USA

    Worked on tensor completion based state estimation in power distribution systems.

    May 2019 - July 2019

    Big Data Developer

    Wipro
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    AWS infrastructure automation using Terraform, Python and Shell Scripting. Hadoop ecosystem setup, configuration and application, components include HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Pig, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Redis, Impala and Zookeeper. Web development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Node.js, jQuery, Java along with databases such as Oracle SQL, Amazon Redshift SQL.

    July 2016 - May 2017

    Intern

    Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Intern

    June 2014 - July 2014
    Education

    PhD, Electrical Engineering (Ongoing)

    Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

    July 2018 - Present

    B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

    National Institute of Technology Karnataka
    Surathkal, Karnataka, India

    July 2012 - May 2016
    Research Interests

  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Control systems
  • Courses Taught

    As part of his roles as a Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF) and Teaching Assistant (TA), Rahul has taken tutorial sessions and help sessions for the following undergraduate level courses:

  • Introduction to Analog and Digital Electronics (GTF, TA)
  • Introduction to Electrical Systems (TA)
  • Introduction to Computing (TA)
  • Licenses & Certifications

    Data Analytics using R & Python

    Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    May 2019 - No Expiration Date

    Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach

    Coursera

    Credential ID : WSQT2J2KA9D2

    September 2018 - No Expiration Date
    Contact

    Rahul Madbhavi

    rahul.madbhavi@iitgn.ac.in

    Contact: +91 95120 22844