Curriculum Vitae NISHANT N. PARIKH ------
Contact Information Permanent Address Office Address 3, Ganesh Apartment, Nehrunagar Circle Electrical Engineering Department, Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology Sheth S.M. Road, Ahmedabad - 380015, Vasan Village, Gandhinagar -Mansa Highway, Gujarat, India. Gandhinagar -382650 , Gujarat, India Tel. No. : 079-65210391, Mb: 9825549973 Mb. +91 9825549973 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
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Education Degree/ Institution Studied Board/Uni. Year Percent Subject/Branch Exam /CPI Passed S.S.C. Shree Damubhai Shukla Gujarat Secondary 1996 81.57 % - Madhyamik Shala, Paldi, Education Board Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India H.S.C. Shree Damubhai Shukla Gujarat Secondary 1998 71.69 % Science Madhyamik Shala, Paldi, Education Board Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India B.E. Shantilal Shah College of Bhavnagar Uni., 2002 71.75 % Instrumentation Engineering, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India and Control Gujarat, India M.Tech Indian Institute of Indian Institute of 2008 9.0 CPI Systems & Technology, Bombay Technology, India out of 10 Control
Ph. D. Course Work performance at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - 8.5 CPI out of 10
Major Subjects Studied Process Modeling and system Identification, Advanced Process Control, Digital Control, Modeling of a dynamical Systems, Multivariable Control System, Control Systems
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Work Experience Name and address of employer Designati Employme Job Duration Pay on nt Type Descript ion Electrical Engineering Department, Assistant Contract Teaching January 01, Consolidated Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Professor and 2014 to till (80000/- Technology, Vasan Village, Research date INR per Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India month) Electrical Engineering Department, Lecturer Contract Teaching September Consolidated School of Technology, Pandit and 01, 2008 to (64000/- Deendayal Petroleum University, Research December INR per Raisan, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India 10, 2013 month Plus Incentives) Instrumentation and Control Lecturer Permanent Teaching August 06, Scale of pay: Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 2003 to 8000-275- Institute of Technology, Vasad, Gujarat, June 30, 13500 India 2006 (23941/- INR per month) Instrumentation and Control Visiting Contract Teaching July 01, Consolidated Department, L.D. Engineering College, Lecturer 2002 to (5000/- INR Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India July 18, per month) 2003
Current Engagements Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Department, Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology, Vasan Village, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India Joining Date: January 01, 2014
Core Courses Taught at Undergraduate and Post Graduate Level Process Dynamics and Control, Advanced Instrumentation and Control, Feedback Control Systems, Modeling and Simulation, System Identification, Modern Control System
Other Courses Taught Signals and Systems, Industrial Instrumentation/Transducers, Electronic Measurement and Measuring Instruments, Engineering Mathematics-I
Research Interests Advanced Process Control, Mathematical Modeling and System Identification, Nuclear Steam Generator Modeling and Control, Managed Pressure Drilling Techniques, Applications of control for various interdisciplinary projects
Country Visited - Visited Singapore for publishing a research paper at International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes during July 10-13, 2012.
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Consultancy Project Title: Question Bank Development Project Funding Agency: Core Projects and Technologies Ltd., Lotus Business Park, 10th Floor, C-21, Dalia Industrial Estate, Opp SAB TV, Andheri-West, Mumbai - 400053 Year: November 2010 Project Amount: 52, 245/- Rs.
Funded Research Projects 1. Title: Partial Identification Framework for Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) System Identification Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India Funding Scheme : Young Scientists Scheme Duration - 3.5 years (starting date: 27/12/2012) Status: Sanctioned as on December 27, 2012 (on going) Sanctioned Amount - 13, 44, 000/- Rs.
2. Title: State-of-the-art Experiment Manual Development for the Process Control Laboratory Status: Submitted to National Instruments for Approval Funding Agency Target: National Instruments Company Duration: 15 Months Proposed Budget: 1,02,300/- Rs.
3. Title: Mathematical Modeling and Model based Controller Design for Suppressing Stick-slip Oscillations in Oil Well drillstrings Status: Draft Ready, In discussion with Ontario based Canadian Industry, Quanser Inc . It is tentatively decided to submit this project in collaboration with Prof. Nitin Padhiyar at IIT Gandhinagar and Prof. Ketan Detroja at IIT Hyderabad. Discussion with both the co-investigators is already initiated.
Funding Agency Target: Oil India Development Board, India
Development Projects
1. Principal Project Coordinator for the development of various laboratories at Nuclear Engineering Department, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University under the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory Development initiative funded by PDPU during 2010-2011. (Internal Funding Amount: Rupees 10 million) 2. Principal Project Coordinator for the development of various research laboratories at Electrical Engineering Department, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University under the research infrastructure development project funded by GETCO & GSECL during the year 2012-2013 (Funding Amount: Rupees 50 million)
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Funding Received for other academic assignment/activities
Sr. Grant Details No. 1 Title: Workshop on “Process Dynamics, Control and Automation using LabVIEW” Duration: August 09-11, 2013 Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology Sanctioned Letter No.: GUJCOST/2013-14/416 Date of Sanction: July 18, 2013 Funding Amount: 70,000/ - Rs. 2 Title: Workshop on “Mathematical Modeling, Control and Simulation using MATLAB” Duration: June 20-21, 2014 Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology Sanctioned Letter No.:GUJCOST/Sem-SyM/2013-14/1813 Date of Sanction: March 31, 2014 Funding Amount: 50,000/- Rs. Utilization Certificate Reference No.: BGKV/SVBIT/Principal/40/2014 Utilization Certificate Date: August 01, 2014 3 Title: Workshop on “Tools and Trends for Research in Electrical Engineering” Duration: November 24-26, 2014 Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology Sanctioned Letter No.: GUJCOST/Sem-Sym/2014-15/891 Date of Sanction: October 07, 2014 Funding Amount: 15,000/- Rs. Utilization Certificate Reference No.: SVBIT/EE/RL/2014/59 Utilization Certificate Date: December 12, 2014 4 Title: Workshop on “Control Design and Simulation using LabVIEW” Duration: October 08-09, 2015 Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology Sanctioned Letter No.: GUJCOST/2013-14/416 Date of Sanction: July 18, 2013 Funding Amount: 15,000/- Rs. Utilization Certificate Reference No.: BGKV/SVBIT/Principal/GUJCOST/189-1/2015 Utilization certificate Date: October 10, 2015 5 Title: Workshop on “An Art of Writing Successful Research Project Proposal to Obtain Funding from Funding Agencies” Duration: Two Days Funding Agency: Gujarat Council on Science and Technology Sanctioned Letter No.: GUJCOST/Sem-Sym 1151/2015-16/1987 Date of Sanction: February 04, 2016 Funding Amount: 25,000/- Rs. Utilization Certificate Reference No.: -Not Applicable -
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Key Academic Projects Modeling and Control of a Nuclear Steam Generator Linear Quadratic Optimal Controller for a coupled tank system Adaptive pole placement controller with offset removal for a coupled tank system Generalized Predictive Controller for a coupled tank system PID controller for a hybrid tank system Pole placement controller for an inverted pendulum Discrete PI controller for a coupled tank system using 8051 microcontroller Adaptive LQG design for a quadruple tank system
Responsibilities taken other than teaching Developed State-of-the-art “Process Dynamics and Control Laboratory” at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) Student Counseling Branch Counselor of IEEE Student Branch, PDPU Branch Chapter Advisor of IEEE Industry Application Society, Student Branch Chapter, PDPU IEEE Student Chapter Activities Coordinator of Board of Studies at Electrical Engineering Department, PDPU Coordinator to organize industrial visit, industrial training and expert lecture at Electrical Department, PDPU Member of the departmental committee for “ National Assessment and Accreditation Council ” (NAAC) at PDPU Development of multi-purpose state-of-the-art “Control and Computing laboratory ” and PG Research Laboratory at Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology Coordinator of “ Faculty Development Program ” at Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology Convener of “ Industrial-Institute Interaction Cell ” at Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology during the year 2014 Chief Operation Officer for the Office of Sponsored Research Cell at Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology from January 2016 Coordinator of “Bapugkv Incubation Centre for Start-ups” Coordinator of promotional committee during GTU Cultural Festival “ XITIJ 2015 ” Coordinator of promotional committee during GTU TechFest 2016
STTP/Workshop /Seminar/Symposia Attended written in reverse chronological order Title University State/National Duration /International Level Winter School on “Control and Indian Institute of Technology, National January 24-27, Dynamical Systems – 2016” Gandhinagar 2016 Main Workshop on Control Indian Institute of Technology, National December 02- System Kharagpur 12, 2014 Engineering & Science National Instruments India National June 18, 2014 Innovation Summit (one day) DST-SERB School on University of Petroleum and National March 24-29, “Evolutionary Techniques for Energy Studies, Dehradun 2014 the Optimization of Chemical Engineering Systems” Page 5 of 11
Workshop on “Energy Jointly organized by Shankersinh State February 07, Conservation Awareness” Vaghela Bapu Institute of 2014 Technology and Gujarat Energy Development Agency One day workshop on "Solar Pandit Deendayal Petroleum State January 25, Water Heating System, Energy University, Gandhinagar 2014 Efficiency & Energy Conservation Two days seminar on Pandit Deendayal Petroleum State September 17- “Awareness on Green Energy University, Gandhinagar 18, 2013 and Energy Conservation” ISTE workshop on Outcome Pandit Deendayal Petroleum State February 09, based education for enhanced University, Gandhinagar 2013 employability Educators Day – The annual National Instruments India National October 13, technical forum for students, 2011 academicians and research scholars LaTeX workshop Jointly organized by IIT Bombay & State November 08, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum 2011 University, Gandhinagar Workshop on “Application of Nirma University, Ahmedabad, National May 10-11, LabVIEW: Instrumentation, Gujarat, India 2010 Communication and Signal Processing” Mathematical Modeling and Sardar Vallabhbhai National National December, 21- Simulation Institute of Technology, Surat, 25, 2009 Gujarat, India Optimization Techniques for IIT Bombay National July 06-11, Chemical Engineering 2009 Application Applications of Process Nirma University National May 25-29, Simulators In Chemical 2009 Engineering Scilab IIT Bombay National March 07-09, 2007 Intelligent Sensors & Control IIT Kanpur National May 04 -10, 2005
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Seminar/ Workshop/any other event Organized Workshop/Semi Title Venue Duration nar/Symposia/ Organized PDPU April 07-08, Workshop Introduction to graphical system design using LabVIEW 2012 Linear algebra, data acquisition and computer based PDPU November 03- Workshop control using a graphical programming language – 04, 2012 LabVIEW Line follower bot & mobile controlled bot using basic PDPU February 02- Workshop Arduino programming 03, 2013
Five Days PDPU February 25- Induction Induction Program for Electrical Sub-Inspectors at GETCO March 01, Program 2013 Workshop Student Section Network Congress PDPU April 07, 2013 PDPU February 25, Induction 2013 to Program Induction Program for Electrical Sub-Inspectors March 01, (Workshop) 2013 Seminar Seminar on Modeling and Simulation PDPU April 03, 2013 Congress SSN Congress PDPU (Networking April 07, 2013 Event) GUJCOST Process Dynamics, Control and Automation using LabVIEW PDPU August 09- Sponsored 11, 2013 Workshop Seminar on Modeling and Simulation PDPU October 10, Seminar 2013 Model Building Competition PDPU October 31, Competition 2013 A one day workshop on “Robo making: Basic Mechanical SVBIT One Day February 01, Bot” at Shankersingh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology, Workshop 2014 Vasan Village, Gandhinagar Faculty Five Days Faculty Development Program SVBIT May 12-16, Development 2014 Program GUJCOST Two days workshop on “Mathematical Modeling, Control SVBIT June 20-21, Sponsored and Simulation using MATLAB” 2014 Workshop GUJCOST Three days workshop on “Tools and Trends for Research SVBIT November 24- Sponsored in Electrical Engineering” 26, 2014 Workshop GUJCOST workshop on “Control Design and Simulation using SVBIT October 08- Sponsored LabVIEW” 09, 2015 Workshop
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Expert Talk Delivered Sr. Title of Topic Coverage Details Program Date, Time and No. Venue 1 Modeling, Control Serial communication using VISA STTP on “LabVIEW Date: 21/04/2015 and Simulation of LabVIEW, digital P, PI, PID and its application Time: 10:00 A.M. to using LabVIEW controller implementation using to engineering 12:00 P. M. and 3:00 LabVIEW, least square technique systems” P.M. to 4:00 P.M. to identify time series data-based Venue: LDRP model Institute of Technology 2 Pedagogy lecture Mathematical modelling and Pedagogy arranged Date: 19/07/2014 on the research innovative controller design at Electrical Time: 2:00 P.M. to proposal entitled scheme for suppressing sick-slip Engineering 4:00 P. M. “Mitigation of Department Venue: Shankersinh stick-slip Vaghela Bapu oscillations seen Institute of during oil well Technology drilling” 3 Process Modeling Basics of mathematical modeling 2-week ISTE Date: 04/07/2014 & Simulation and overview of some numerical approved STTP on Time: 8:45 to 10:45 techniques to solve ODE for "Process Control: A.M. process simulation with examples Theory, Application Venue: Nirma and Advances” University 4 System Data-based modeling of 2-week ISTE Date: 04/07/2014 Identification systems/processes, overview of approved STTP on Time: 11:00 A.M. to Techniques experiments and data collection, "Process Control: 01:00 P. M. data pre-processing, classification Theory, Application Venue: Nirma of methods, and overview of and Advances” University some system identification techniques with some simulation examples and demo case-study using matlab/simulink/lab -view 5 Financial Review of Various funding Special Invited Date: 19/04/2014 Resources for Schemes and funding agencies, Session for the Time: 2:00 P.M. to Research and How to write research proposals faculty 4:00 P. M. Development and code of conduct development by Venue: Shankersinh The Principal, Vaghela Bapu SVBIT Institute of Technology 6 Introduction to Modeling of systems using Workshop on Date: 12/04/2014 control LabVIEW, control design using “Virtual Time: 3:15 P.M. to system Toolbox, control system toolbox of Instrumentation 5:15 P. M. Solutions of LabVIEW, Case study on Single and its Venue: Nirma control Board Heater System Applications” University engineering problems using Labview 7 Model Based Observer design and model ISTE approved two Date: 04/07/2013
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Controller design predictive controller design in week STTP on Time: 9:00A.M. to LabVIEW “Design and 3:00 P. M. Venue: development of Nirma University automation using LabVIEW” 8 Process Modeling Modelling of systems using data ISTE approved two Date: 03/07/2013 and Simulation based techniques, small scale week STTP on Time: 9:00A.M. to using LabVIEW electronic projects using NI ELVIS “Design and 3:00 P. M. Venue: development of Nirma University automation using LabVIEW” 9 Closed loop A closed-loop identification IFAC Symposium Date: 11/07/2012 Identification of scheme which facilitates on Advanced Time: 10:00A.M. to Quadruple Tank relatively simple single step Control of Chemical 12:00 P. M. Venue: System using an indirect identification Processes, July 10- Furama Riverfront Improved 13, 2012 Hotel, Singapore Indirect Approach 10 Mathematical Basics of system identification, Expert Session for Date: 10/02/2011 Modeling and Adaptive Identification and Post Graduate Time: 10:00A.M. to System various time series models Instrumentation 12:00 P. M. Venue: Identification and Control Nirma University Engineering Students 11 Applications and Various challenges and PG Orientation Date: 14/07/2010 Challenges of applications of control in various Program for Time: 10:00A.M. to Control System interdisciplinary and industry Instrumentation 12:00 P. M. Venue: relevant problems and Control Nirma University Engineering Students 12 Modeling and First Principal Modeling and Special Invited Year: 2008 Control of model based control of Nuclear Session by Board of Time: 10:00A.M. to Nuclear Steam Steam Generator Research in Nuclear 12:00 P. M. Venue: Generator Sciences under Board of Research in Professor Sachin Nuclear Sciences, Patwardhan’s Mumbai Research Project 2007/36/58- BRNS/465)
Software Skill MATLAB, LABVIEW, MULTISIM, SCILAB, Scientific Word
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Supervision of M-Tech thesis 1. Gaurav Hinduja, " Control of a Multivariable Interacting Reservior System ", 2008-2009 2. Kalpesh Pathak, " Advanced Control Strategies for Surfactant Flooding EOR Process ", 2009-2010 3. Pradeep Gupta, " Annulus Pressure Management During Oil Well Drilling ", 2010-2011 4. Kevin Joshi, " Advanced Control Strategies for Nuclear Steam Generator ", 2011-2012 5. Nikunj Pathak, " Development of System Identification Techniques to Model Nuclear Steam Generator ", 2011-2012 6. Manit Shah, " Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Nuclear Power Plant ", 2011-2012 7. Vivek Maradia, "Model Based Predictive Control Strategy for Nuclear Power Plant Safety - Application to Nuclear Steam Generator Control ", 2013-2014
Membership of Professional Bodies • Life member of “The Indian Society for Technical Education ” (Membership No. – LM43370) • Member of “International Association of Engineers ” (Membership No. – 122379) • Member of “ International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology ” (Membership No. – 80345721) • Member of “ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ” (Membership No. – 92638265)
Publications
International Conference
1. Naveen Velmurgan, Nishant Parikh , “ Mitigation of stick slip during drilling using model reduction and model based controller ” IEEE IAS Annual Meeting , Orlando, Florida, USA, October 06-11, 2013. 2. Vivek Maradia, Nishant Parikh , “Closed-loop Method to Obtain Control Relevant Model of an Open- loop Unstable Nuclear Steam Generator System”, American Nuclear Society National Meeting, Washington DC, USA, November10-14, 2013 . 3. Manit Shah, Nishant Parikh , " Application of Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control Algorithm to a Benchmark Multi Input Multi Output Quadruple Tank Process ", 54 th Annual Meeting of Institute of Nuclear Materials and Management , JW Marriott Desert Springs, Palm Desert, California, USA, July 14-18, 2013 . 4. Nishant Parikh , Sachin Patwardhan, Ravi Gudi, " Closed-loop Identification of Quadruple Tank System using an Improved Indirect Approach ", International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes , July 10-13, 2012, at Furama Riverfront Hotel, Havelock Road, Singapore. 5. Nishant Parikh , Sachin Patwardhan, Santanu Bandyopadyay, Ravi Gudi, " Control of a Nuclear Steam Generator using Feedback-Feedforward LQG Controller ", International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes , May 23-27, 2011 at Thousand Island Resort, Hangzhou, China. 6. Kalpesh Pathak, Anil Markana, Nishant Parikh , " Optimal Control of CSTR ", International Conference on Current Trends in Technology , December 09-11, 2010 at Nirma Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. 7. Ankit Shah, Anil Markana, Parikh Nishant , " Performance Analysis of IMC based PID Controller Tuning on Approximated Process Model ", International Conference on Current Trends in Technology , December 09-11, 2010 at Nirma Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. 8. Gaurav Hinduja, N. N. Parikh , A. T. Markana, " Control of Multivariable Quadruple Tank System - A Case Study ", International Conference on Instrumentation (ICI-2009), Pune, paper selected and presented in Jan, 2010. Page 10 of 11
9. N. N. Parikh , A. T. Markana, Ankit Shah, " 2-DOF Controller Design for Polynomial and Sinewave Reference Signals using Auxiliary Aryabhatta's Identity Equation ", International Conference on Instrumentation (ICI-2009), Pune, paper selected and presented in Jan, 2010. 10. N. N. Parikh , A.T. Markana, Ankit Shah, " 2-DOF Controller Synthesis for Tracking of Harmonic Reference Trajectories ", International Conference on signals systems and automation , GCET, Vallabh Vidyanagar, paper selected and presented in Dec, 2009.
National Conference / Workshop
1. N. N. Parikh , Ankit Shah, " Modeling of Blood Sugar and Blood Insulin Level with Application to Diabetes ", National Conference on Innovations and Applications of Mathematical Modeling Techniques in Engineering Systems, IEEE (Gujarat Section), December 10, 2008 at A.D. Patel Institute of Technology, New Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India. 2. T. Markana, N. N. Parikh , Ankit Shah, " Polynomial based design for generalized predictive control ", REMES, IEEE (Gujarat Section), September 12-13, 2008 at Changa Eng. College, Anand, Gujarat, India. 3. N. N. Parikh , A. T. Markana, Vishnuvardhana, " Adaptive PI controller based on direct synthesis ", REMES, IEEE (Gujarat Section), September 12-13, 2008 at Changa Eng. College, Anand, Gujarat, India. 4. N. N. Parikh , A. T. Markana, Harshil Raval, " Microcontroller based digital PI controller ", NVSC, IEEE (Gujarat Section), April 19-20, 2008 at ADIT Eng. College, Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India. 5. N. N. Parikh , Vishnuvardhana, A. T. Markana, " Adaptive control of a coupled tank system ", NVSC, IEEE (Gujarat Section), April 19-20, 2008 at ADIT Eng. College, Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India.
National Journals
1. Ankit Shah, Anil Markana, Parikh Nishant , " Performance Analysis of IMC based PID Controller Tuning on Approximated Process Model ", Nirma University Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol.1, No. 2, July- December, 2010. 2. Kalpesh Pathak, Anil Markana, Nishant Parikh , " Optimal Control of CSTR ", Nirma University Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol.1, No. 2, July- December, 2010.
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