Krishna R. Pattipati

Board of DirectorsKrishna R. Pattipati

Member, Board of Directors

UTC Professor of Systems Engineering
Office: ITE 350

Phone: (860) 486-2890
Email: krishna@engr.uconn.edu

Education

B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1975
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Control and Communication Systems, University of Connecticut, 1977
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Control and Communication Systems, University of Connecticut, 1980.

Expertise

My current research interests are as follows:

  • Development of models and methods for agile planning in dynamic and uncertain environments;
  • Identification of patterns in sparse data;
  • Computationally efficient techniques for inference in probabilistic graphical models that evolve with time;
  • Model-based and data-driven techniques for diagnosis and prognosis in complex systems;
  • Integration of heuristic search, information theory and stochastic control to solve problems arising in sequential fault diagnosis and testability analysis of electronic systems and electro-mechanical systems arising in aerospace applications;
  • Distributed coordinated scheduling of task graphs;
  • Development of models of distributed information processing in human teams and distributed detection;
  • Fast near-optimal algorithms for multi-user detection in wireless communications;
  • Development of discrete-optimization and statistical estimation techniques to associate data from multiple sensors and to track multiple objects;
  • Multi-objective optimization techniques for engineering applications.

Other Expertise

  • Consultant, Alphatech, Inc., 1986-1992;
  • Consultant, IBM Research Center, 1989-1991;
  • Consultant, Qualtech Systems, Inc., 1993-present;
  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC): Part B – Cybernetics, 1998-2001;
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on SMC, 1991-1997;
  • Vice-President for Conferences and Meetings of IEEE SMC Society, 2000-2001;
  • Vice-President for Technical Activities of IEEE SMC Society, 1998-1999;
  • Centennial key to the future, IEEE, 1984;
  • Best Technical Paper, IEEE Automatic Testing Conference, 1985, 1990, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2011;
  • Best Technical Paper, Command and Control Symposium, 1997, 2004;
  • Andrew P. Sage Award for best paper of 1999 in IEEE Transactions on SMC, October 2000;
  • NASA Space Act Award for “A Comprehensive Toolset for Model-based Health Monitoring and Diagnosis,” April 2002;
  • Co-recipient of Barry Carlton Award for the Best AES Transactions Paper of 2000, August 2002;
  • UConn AAUP Research Excellence Award, April 2003;
  • UConn School of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, 2005.
  • NASA Space Act Award, 2008 for “Real-Time Update Of Fault-Test Dependencies Of Dynamic Systems: A Comprehensive Toolset For Model-Based Health Monitoring And Diagnostics.”

Memberships

  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

Honors and Awards

  • NASA Space Act Award, 2008 for “Real-Time Update Of Fault-Test Dependencies Of Dynamic Systems: A Comprehensive Toolset For Model-Based Health Monitoring And Diagnostics.”
  • Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2006.
  • UConn School of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, April 2005.
  • UConn AAUP Research Excellence Award, 2003.
  • NASA Space Act Award for “A Comprehensive Toolset for Model-based Health Monitoring and Diagnosis,” 2002.
  • Co-recipient of Barry Carlton Award for the Best AES Transactions Paper of 2000, August 2002.
  • A.P. Sage Award for Best SMC Transactions Paper in Parts A, B and C of 1999, October 2000.
  • Elected Fellow of IEEE for contributions to Discrete Optimization Techniques for Large-Scale Systems and Team Decision-making (1995).
  • The Walter E. Peterson Awards for Best New Technology Paper at IEEE AUTOTEST Conferences (September 2005, September 2004, October 2002, September 1994, September 1990, October 1985).
  • Best Technical Paper Awards, Command and Control Research Symposium (June 2004, June 1997).
  • Outstanding Young Engineer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Received the Centennial Key to the Future Award (1984).
  • Outstanding Electrical Engineer, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (1975).

Recent Publications

Book Chapters (Since 2007)

G. Levchuk, C. Meirina, S. Singh, K.R. Pattipati, P.K. Willett and K. Chopra “Learning from the Enemy: Approaches to Identifying and Modeling the Hidden Enemy Organization”, in A. Kott (ed), Information Warfare and Organizational Decision-making, Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2007.

Y. Levchuk, G. Levchuk, C. Meirina, S. Ruan, K.R. Pattipati and D.L. Kleinman, “Organizational Armor: Design of Attack-resistant Organizations,” in A. Kott (ed.) Information Warfare and Organizational Performance, Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2007.

K. R. Pattipati, A. Kodali, J. Luo, K. Choi, S. Singh, C. Sankavaram, S. Mandal, W. Donat, S. Namburu, S. Chigusa, L. Qiao, “Án Integrated Diagnostic Process for Automotive Systems,” in D. Prokhorov, (ed.) Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), Vol. 132, pp. 191-218, 2008.

A. Patterson-Hine, G. Aaseng, G. Biswas, S. Narasimhan and K.R. Pattipati, “Diagnostics and Testability, Chapter 16 in Stephen B. Johnson (Ed.), System Health Management with Aerospace Applications, Wiley, 2011, pp. 265-277.

K. Choi, V. Asal, J. Wilkenfeld and K.R. Pattipati, “Forecasting the Use of Violence in Ethno-political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities and the Choice of Violence,” in Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism, Springer 2012 (to be published).

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