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Dr. Ramakrishnan Raman

Eaton

Dr. Ramakrishnan Raman received B.Tech and MS degrees from IIT Madras, and Ph.D. from IIIT, Bangalore. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, INCOSE Certified Expert Systems Engineering Professional – ESEP, Fellow – Indian Society of Systems for Science & Engineering (ISSE) and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has to his credit several publications in refereed international conferences & journals on complex systems architecture design and artificial intelligence –machine learning and has also received best paper awards. He is active in the professional societies, including IEEE, INCOSE and SAE, and has held leadership positions in these societies, and has received multiple awards for his contributions. He has also served as Technical Committee Chair for many prestigious conferences including INCOSE International Symposium, IEEE CONECCT and SAE AeroCON. He is currently Senior Chief Engineer at Eaton. Prior to joining Eaton, he was Fellow at Honeywell Aerospace.

Peeyush Pankaj

MathWorks

Peeyush Pankaj is a principal application engineer at MathWorks, where he has been promoting MATLAB products for data science. He works closely with customers in the areas of predictive maintenance, digital twin, enterprise integration, and big data. Peeyush has over 12 years of industry experience with a strong background in aviation. Prior to joining MathWorks, he has extensively worked on aircraft engine designs, testing, and certification. He has filed 25 patents on advanced jet engine technologies and prognostic health monitoring of aircraft engines. Peeyush holds a master’s degree in advanced mechanical engineering from the University of Sussex, UK.

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Mukesh Prasad

MathWorks

Mukesh Prasad is a Principal Application Engineer in MathWorks India and enables engineers & scientists to adopt Model-based Design workflows. He closely works with customers in Aerospace & Defence industry to help them use MATLAB® and Simulink® products for control system design, multi-domain physical modeling, production code generation, test automation and software verification & validation. Mukesh has over 17 years of experience in jet engine control and flight control systems. Prior to joining MathWorks, Mukesh worked as Systems Specialist with Moog India, where he gained hands-on experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Test Equipment Design for aircraft applications. He started his career as Scientist at Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), one of the labs of DRDO, and worked on aircraft engine control design, testing, and certification using model-based design workflows. Mukesh holds a master’s degree in mechatronics engineering from NIT Surathkal while bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from NIT Kurukshetra.

Brijith Balakrishnan

Moog India Technology Centre

Brijith Balakrishnan is a Systems Engineer at Moog India Technology Centre, Bangalore, with experience in modeling and simulation, aircraft system integration, verification and validation . He has worked on various projects related to aircraft systems, including the Primary Control System, High Lift System, and Electric Propulsion System. Before joining Moog India, Brijith completed his master’s dissertation at the U.R Rao Satellite Center, which is one of the research centers of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization), where his research focused on modeling and simulation of a planetary aerial rover. He holds a master’s degree in mechatronics engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka and a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Calicut.

Richa Singh

MathWorks

Richa Singh is part of the Application Engineering Group at MathWorks. She currently supports customers from various domains, including servo control, autonomous systems (such as robotics and UAVs), and Simulink Real-Time. Her research domain includes the physical modeling and nonlinear control design of dynamical systems, where she was deeply involved in exploring both data-driven and first-principles approaches. She holds a master’s and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

Tittu George

HAL

Tittu George started his career as a Flight Instrumentation Engineer for Light Combat Aircraft, where he gained extensive knowledge in designing and developing instrumentation systems for aircraft.

He then transitioned to the role of Control System Engineer, where he spent the next 8 years working on the design and development of control systems for helicopters. He presently specializes in Model based design solutions using MATLAB/Simulink for aerospace control system. He has extensive knowledge in software certification standards like DO178B/C and DDPMAS. He is involved in design and development of airborne systems with in depth knowledge in ARP4754 and ARP4761.

Tittu George has an M.Tech degree in Data Science and Engineering from BITS Pilani and has three international papers to his name. He has been working in the aerospace industry for over 15 years and has held various roles during his career.

Peeyush Pankaj

MathWorks

Peeyush Pankaj is a principal application engineer at MathWorks, where he has been promoting MATLAB products for data science. He works closely with customers in the areas of predictive maintenance, digital twin, enterprise integration, and big data. Peeyush has over 12 years of industry experience with a strong background in aviation. Prior to joining MathWorks, he has extensively worked on aircraft engine designs, testing, and certification. He has filed 25 patents on advanced jet engine technologies and prognostic health monitoring of aircraft engines. Peeyush holds a master’s degree in advanced mechanical engineering from the University of Sussex, UK.

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Mukesh Prasad

MathWorks

Mukesh Prasad is a Principal Application Engineer in MathWorks India and enables engineers & scientists to adopt Model-based Design workflows. He closely works with customers in Aerospace & Defence industry to help them use MATLAB® and Simulink® products for control system design, multi-domain physical modeling, production code generation, test automation and software verification & validation. Mukesh has over 17 years of experience in jet engine control and flight control systems. Prior to joining MathWorks, Mukesh worked as Systems Specialist with Moog India, where he gained hands-on experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Test Equipment Design for aircraft applications. He started his career as Scientist at Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), one of the labs of DRDO, and worked on aircraft engine control design, testing, and certification using model-based design workflows. Mukesh holds a master’s degree in mechatronics engineering from NIT Surathkal while bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from NIT Kurukshetra.

Bimal Raj

GTRE-DRDO

Mr. Bimal Raj has got 18 years of experience in the field of gas turbine control systems. He has practiced model-based design for the design of complex safety critical aerospace systems. His expertise encompasses modelling and simulation of complex systems, design of feedback control loops, real-time simulation, Hardware in Loop Simulation, and the development of robust fault detection algorithms and fault-tolerant control logics. Mr. Raj possesses a profound understanding of the certification process and demonstrates proficiency in industry standards such as ARP 4761, ARP 4754, and DO 178 B/C guidelines. He holds a Master degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Bombay with specialization in controls.

Rahul Choudhary

MathWorks

Rahul Choudhary is a senior application engineer at MathWorks India and specializes in the field of system modeling and control design. He has over 10 years of experience in power electronics control, motor control, multidomain modeling, and real-time simulation. Prior to joining MathWorks, Rahul worked with Eaton India Engineering Centre as a control engineer involved in developing prognostics and health monitoring algorithms for proof-of-concept projects using MATLAB and Simulink. He holds a master’s degree in systems and control engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and instrumentation engineering from Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India.

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