SAMAVEDHAM, Lakshminarayanan

Associate Professor
Deputy Director, CDTL
Chair, NUS General Education Committee

PhD (Process Control) University of Alberta, Canada, 1997
MS (ChE.),IIT Madras, 1992
B.E. (Hons.) (ChE), BITS, Pilani, 1988

Contact information
Blk E4, 4 Engineering Drive 3, #06-05, Singapore 117576
Tel: (65) 6516 8484    Fax: (65) 6779 1936
Email: chels@nus.edu.sg

MASEE, MAIChE, MIES.

International Advisory Board, Indian Chemical Engineer

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Research Awards

• Best Poster Award at the Joint 3rd AOHUPO and 4th Structural Biology and Functional Genomics Conference, Singapore.
• Best Paper Award at CHEMCON 2005, New Delhi, India (Advances in Process Control).
• DuPont / Paprican Research Excellence Award (Jan. 1996)
• Pan Canadian Petroleum Award (Sept. 1995).

Teaching Awards

• NUS Outstanding Educator Award (May, 2006). (Link) [Photo] [Award Lecture Slides]
• Engineering Educator Award (Feb. 2006).[Photo1] [Photo2]
• Innovative Teaching, Faculty of Engineering, Bronze Award. (2003-2004). [Photo]
• NUS Excellent Teachers List (2001-2002, 2002-2003).

For more information, please visit my personal webpage

Research Activities

Please visit my research team at the Informatics and Process Control (IPC) Unit webpage.

Informatics: Machine Learning and Data Analysis

Investigators: Manoj Kandpal
                         Chakravarthy Mynampati Kalyan
                         Prem Krishnan
                         Periasamy Karthik Raja

The focus of our research is in developing new methods for classification and modeling of biological data sets. Of particular interest is the development of effective and scalable methods to build robust model based classifiers. We have also developed new approaches for variable subset selection for classification and regression problems.
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PSE Applications in Medicine

Investigator:  Loganathan, P (Infectious Diseases)

Investigator: Kanchi Lakshmi Kiran (Cancer Modeling and Therapy Planning)

Investigator: Vaibhav Maheshwari (Dialysis Modeling and Optimization)
(Co-supervised by Prof. G.P. Rangaiah)

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Control: Biomedical Applications

Investigator: Yelneedi Sreenivas (Control of Anesthesia)
(Co-supervised by Prof. G.P. Rangaiah)

Investigator: May Su Tun    (Algorithms for Glycemic Control)
(Co-supervised by Prof. G.P. Rangaiah)

Investigator: Naviyn Prabhu Balakrishnan (Decision Support System for Glycemic Control)
(Co-supervised by Prof. G.P. Rangaiah)

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Chemical Process Applications

Crystallization

Investigator: Zhou Ying (ICES) (Inline Video Imaging for Real-time Control of Crystallizers)
(Co-supervised by Prof. Raj Srinivasan, NUS/ICES)

Process Intensification

Investigator: Gudena Krishna (Distillation and Absorption Processes)
(Co-supervised by Prof. G.P. Rangaiah)
 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. Gudena Krishna, G.P. Rangaiah and S. Lakshminarayanan, “Optimal Design of a Rotating Packed Bed for VOC Stripping from Contaminated Groundwater”, Accepted for publication in Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research, (November 2011).

2. Naviyn Prabhu Balakrishnan, G.P. Rangaiah and S. Lakshminarayanan, “Review and Analysis of Blood Glucose (BG) Models for Type 1 Diabetic Patients”, Accepted for publication in Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research, (September 2011).

3. Vaibhav Maheshwari, S. Lakshminarayanan and G. P. Rangaiah, “A regional blood flow model for -microglobulin kinetics and for simulating intra-dialytic exercise effect”, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 39 (12), 2879-2890, (2011).

4. Loganathan, P., S. Lakshminarayanan, H.R. Lee and C.S. Ho, “Understanding the socioeconomic heterogeneity in healthcare among US counties: The Effect of Population density, Education and Poverty on H1N1 Pandemic Mortality”, Accepted for publication in Epidemology and Infection, (July 2011).

5. K.L. Kiran and S. Lakshminarayanan, “Application of Scaling and Sensitivity Analysis for Tumor-Immune Model Reduction”, Chemical Engineering Science, 66, 5164–5172, (2011).

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