Organizational
Convener, 3rd Annual Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) Symposium, IIT HYderabad, March 16 - 17, 2025.
Convener, 30th International Conference on Processing of Advanced Materials and Fabrication of Products, IIT Hyderabad, Dec 11-
13, 2024.
Joint Secretary, Control Society, 2022 - till date, Organizing committee of the IEEE Indian Control Conference.
Member, Program Committee, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2024.
Steering Committee Member, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (ICIT - 2022), University of Pembangunan Jaya, Jakarta, 16 - 18 December, 2022
Finance Co-Chair, 6th IEEE Indian Control Conference, Dec 18 - 20, 2019, IIT Hyderabad (http://icc.org.in/dec-2019/)
Joint Secretary, Control Society, 2017 - 2022, Organizing committee of the IEEE Indian Control Conference
Local Arrangements Chair, 2nd IEEE Indian Control Conference under the chairmanship of Prof. M. Vidyasagar
Core Arrangement Team, ChEmference 2015 (http://www.chemference2015.in/)
Workshop Chair, IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC), 27 Aug - 30 Aug 2013, Hyderabad Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India
Member, International Program Committee, Indian Control Conference, an IEEE international conference
Member, International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Power, Control and Communication Infrastructure (ICPCCI 2019)
Member of Executive Council of Asian Society for Research in Engineering Sciences (ASRES)
Invited / Keynote Lectures
Invited lecture on "Reinventing Wind Power with AI: Towards a sustainable tomorrow" for the conference Advances in Chemical Engineering: A Process Systems Engineering Perspective (ACEPS 2025) on Sep 15, 2025.
Invited session in the ANRF-sponsored 5-Day Workshop on "Trends in Modern Decision Making: Applications of MCDM and Optimization" held at Mahindra University, Jun 23-27, 2025.
Keynote presentation on “Confluence of Machine Learning and Optimization in Manufacturing” at 30th International Conference on Processing of Advanced Materials and Fabrication of Products, IIT Hyderabad, Dec 11-13, 2024.
Keynote presentation on “Designing AI Driven Smart Wind Energy Conversion System: A Journey towards Sustainable Energy Generation”, at International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Developments (ICSEED24), CBIT Hyderabad, Dec 13-14,2024.
Keynote presentation on “Confluence of Numeral Optimization & Machine Learning in Wind Farm Design” at the 2nd International Conference on Numerical Optimization in Engineering and Sciences, NIT Warangal, Dec 5-7, 2024.
Invited lecture on “Surrogate Optimization Towards Industrial Problem Solving” at the AI workshop, Tata Steel, Dec 3-4, 2024.
Keynote lecture in the International Conference on "Sustainable Development in Chemical and Environmental Engineering" (SDCEE 2024) organized by Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Feb 22-24, 2024.
Invited lecture "The Role of AI/ML in Materials Process Optimization Research" at the 15th International Conference on SUSTAINABLE & INNOVATIVE MATERIALS AND DESIGN FOR GLOBAL NEEDS, APM 2024, CIPET:IPT, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 14 –16 March, 2024.
Invited lectures for Faculty Development Program on "Empowering Educators: AI tools in Engineering and Technology" organized by CBIT, Hyderabad, 2024.
Keynote lecture on “Importance of process simulations in Chemical Engineering" for workshop on "Process Simulation using Aspen HYSYS" organized by BITS Hyderbad, Jun 2 - 3, 2023.
Lead presentation in the INAE workshop for “Surrogate Modeling, Uncertainty optimization, Data Science and ANN” track displaying the national capability while preparing the ICME Materials Research road map for INDIA.
Invited lecture on "Evolutionary Optimization in Machine Learning & its Applications in Process Systems Engineering", AICTE-ISTE Sponsored Online Refresher Programme on Nonlinear & Evolutionary Optimization Techniques in Engineering, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous), Madhurawada, Visakhapatnamm 21 – 26 February, 2022.
Keynote lecture "Machine learning based robust optimization under uncertainty" for Symposium on "Multi-objective Optimization Under Uncertainty", SPARC online workshop organized by IIT Hyderbad & University of Exeter (UK), Sep 1 - 3, 2021.
Keynote lecture "India wide Bio-Supply chain design under uncertainty" for Symposium on "Challenges in the Production of 2G Bioethanol", IIT Tirupati, Aug 9 - 10, 2021.
Invited resource person for AICTE-ATAL FDP on Control Systems and Sensor Technology, Coordinated by College of Engineering, Pune, December 14 - 18, 2020.
Guest lecture for AICTE-ATAL FDP on Recent Developments in AI for Smart and Sustainable Energy Systems, Coordinated by Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, December 7 - 11, 2020.
"Meeting Climate Change Challenges through Hand Shaking with AI", Invited Lecture @ Vaibhav Summit: October 16, 2020.
"Machine Learning, Optimization and Control based Applications in Mineral / Metal Processing Industries", Webinar @ TATA STEEL, July 15, 2020.
"TRANSFORMing Surrogate Building for Computationally Expensive Models", Advanced Materials and Processes for Defence Applications (ADMAT 2019), Hyderabad, September 23 - 25, 2019.
"Surrogates can make optimization possible for high fidelity models", 2nd World Congress On Engineering & Applications (WCEA - 2017), Pattaya, December 15 - 16, 2017.
"Is Optimization Time-feasible for computationally expensive models?", 4th International Conference for Advanced Materials and Materials Processing (ICAMMP-IV), November 5 - 7, 2016, IIT Kharagpur.
"Optimization with computationally expensive models", 3rd Indo-German Workshop on The Advances in Materials, Reaction, and Separation Processes, February 24-25, 2016, IIT Guwahati.
"Parametric Sensitivity through Evolutionary Optimization under Uncertainty Approach", Genetic Algorithms in Materials Design and Processing, 20th conference on Computer Methods in Materials Technology (KomPlasTech 2013), Zakopane, Poland, January 13 - 16, 2013.
"Optimization Methods and its application to Process Industries" - Key note address in Aditya Birla Group Simulation Conference - 2012, Mumbai, December 6, 2012.
"Optimal Process Conditions for the Controlled Branching of Polymer: Multi-objective Evolutionary Approach", Invited lecture at the Third International Conference on Natural Polymers & Biomaterials (ICNP – 2012), 26-28 October, 2012, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
Invited lecture in “Applications of Novel AI and Machine Learning Techniques for Chemical and Petrochemical Industries”, Dec 28, 2009 – Jan 2, 2010, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India sponsored SERC School organized by CDAC, Pune and MIT, Pune.
“Optimization and Control in Mineral Processing Plants” - Invited lecture on process control for mineral processing plants in the workshop, Jan 6 – 8, 2010, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune.
“Optimization Methods for Research and Industrial Problems” - Invited leture for Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering Pune, 2009.
“Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimal Control of PPT Polymerization Reactor” - Invited session lecture in IFAC Congress 2005, Prague, Czech Republic.
“Finding Better catalyst for Optimal Control of PPT Polymerization Reactor” - Invited lecture in International Conference on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithms in Material Science 2006, Kolkata, India.
“Applications of Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm in Optimal Control of Polymerization Processes” - Invited lecture in International Conference on Advanced Material Design and Development 2005, Goa, India.
“Genetic Algorithm Based Optimization Applied to an Industrial Grinding Operation” - Invited lecture in International Conference on Mineral Processing Technology 2004, Bhubneshwar, India.