The Salapaka Lab

Cailong Hua

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Amazon

Thesis: Probing Unfolding Forces of Proteins with Heterogeneous Domains: Machine Learning Enables Force Spectroscopy

Edlund Connor

PhD. Alumnus

Now: KLA-Tencor

Thesis: Learning-Based Control for Optically Trapped Non-Spherical Particles

Vivek Khatana

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Postdoctoral researcher, Aviate Lab, UIUC

Thesis: Balancing Information Mixing and Optimality: A Framework for Robust and Efficient Distributed Decision-Making

Arnab Dey

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Skyworks

Thesis: Resilient and Situationally Aware Multi-Microgrid: A Stochastic Control and Resource Pooling Framework

Mishfad Veedu

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Google

First: Nikola Corporation

Thesis: Network Topology and Causal Structure Recovery in Linear Dynamical Systems

Rachit Shrivastava

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Google

First: Systems Engineer, Melio (startup)

Thesis: Regulation Mechanisms in Molecular Motors: Engineering Bioinspired Transportation at Micron-Scale

Sivaraman Rajaganapathy

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Mayo Clinic

Thesis: Unraveling Information Excited and Corrupted by Noise: With Applications to Single Molecule Biophysics

Soham Chakraborty

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

First: Postdoc, NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Thesis: Robust Dynamic Resilient Power Grids Enabled by Modern Control Framework

Harish Doddi

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Nvidia

Dr. James Melbourne

Postdoctoral Fellow

Now: Assistant Professor, Probability and Statistics, CIMAT, Mexico

Sourav Patel

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Google (data-center carbon neutrality)

Thesis: Distributed Coordination and Control –A bottom up design framework for Highly Renewable Grids and Microgrids

Venkat Ram Subramanian

PhD. Alumnus (co-advised with Prof. Andrew Lamperski)

Now: Honeywell

Thesis: Network Structure Identification using CorruptData-Streams

Blake Lundstrom

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Enphase Energy

First: NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Thesis: Coordinated Control of the Modern Grid: High-bandwidth Optimal Coordination, Inference, and Verification

Saurav Talukdar

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Verrus

First: Apple Inc.

Thesis: Information Processing: Thermodynamics of Computations and Network Inference

Shreyas Bhaban

PhD. Alumnus

Now: KLA-Tencor

First: Becton Dickinson

Thesis: Advancements in Analytical Methods and Opto-Mechanical Techniques to Study Molecular Motors and Mutations

Sayan Ghosal

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Seagate

Thesis: Signals and Systems Tools for Advanced Nanoscale Investigation with Atomic Force Microscopy

Sourav Pradhan

M.S. Alumnus

Now: MathWorks

Thesis: Real-Time Identification of Local Surface Properties of Material Using Atomic Force Microscope: An FPGA-Based Implementation

Carmen Li

M.S. Alumnus

Thesis: Bimodal AFM Using State Estimation and In Vitro AFM Imaging of Microtubules

Monisha Kodi Shivanna

M.S. Alumnus

Thesis: Automation of Particle Detection and Tracking of Motor Proteins

Subhrajit Roychowdhury

PhD. Alumnus

Now: GE Research

Thesis: Breaking Perceived Limits of Performance for Nanoscale Interrogation and Transport Systems

Govind Saraswat

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Google

First: Oracle

Thesis: Probe based multimodal and multi frequency methods for material characterization at nanoscale

Tanuj Aggarwal

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Apple

First: Cymer, San Diego

Thesis: Novel Tools for Biophysics Research

Dr. Donatello Materassi

Postdoctoral Alumnus

Now: Professor, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities

First: Postdoctoral Associate, LIDS, MIT

Hullas Sehgal

PhD. Alumnus

Now: GE Research

Thesis: Optical Tweezers: Characterization and Systems Approach to High Bandwidth Force Estimation

Naveen Kumar

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Carrier Corporation

Thesis: A communications system perspective for dynamic mode atomic force microscopy, with applications to high-density storage and nanoimaging

Pranav Agarwal

PhD. Alumnus

Now: GE Research

Thesis: Model Mismatch Paradigm for Probe based Nanoscale Imaging

Tathagatha De

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Daikin

First: United Technologies

Thesis: Systems Approach Based Solution to Fundamental Limitations in Unraveling Spatial and Temporal Regimes in Nano-Interrogation and Nano-Positioning

Vikas Yadav

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Tesla

First: Garmin

Thesis: Distributed controller synthesis and decision making

Deepak Sahoo

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Associate Professor with tenure, Swansea University, UK

First: IBM Research Zurich

Thesis: Transient force atomic force microscopy: systems approaches to emerging applications

Raegan Johnson

M.S. Alumnus

Thesis: Characterization of piezoelectric ZnO thin films and the fabrication of piezoelectric micro-cantilevers

Abu Sebastian

PhD. Alumnus

Now: IBM Zurich Research Labs; IEEE Fellow

Thesis: Nanotechnology: A systems and control approach

Anil Gannepalli

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Asylum Research, Santa Barbara

Thesis: Theoretical and Experimental Explorations in Atomic Force Microscopy

Xin Qi

PhD. Alumnus

Now: Garmin Industries

Thesis: Mathematical optimization and robust control synthesis

Rajeev Rajaram

M.S. Alumnus

Now: Professor of Mathematics, Kent State University

First: Agilent

Thesis: Experiments on Atomic Force Microscope