MURTI V. SALAPAKA

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
IOWA STATE UNIVESRITY

(Revised on Aug. 16, 2003)

 

 

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I.                   PERSONAL DATA

 

Residence Address:                               3226, Sumac Circle, Ames, Iowa , 50014

Work Address :                                     3128 Coover Hall, Dept. of ECpE, Ames, Iowa - 50011

E-mail:                                                  murti@iastate.edu

URL:                                                    http://www.engr.iastate.edu/~murti

Date of Employment :                            Fall 1997

 

II.                EDUCATION

Ph.D:                                                    Mechanical  Engineering, 1997

                                                            University of California, Santa Barbara

 

 

M.S:                                                     Mechanical Engineering , 1993

                                                            University of California, Santa Barbara

 

 

B. Tech:                                                    Mechanical Engineering,1991

                                                                  Indian Institute of Technology,

 

III.             ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2002-2003                                                Litton’s Industries Chair

 

2001-2002                                             Chair, Control Systems Group

 

1997 – present                                      Assosciate Professor

                                                            Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

                                                            Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

 

1991- 1997                                            Research and Teaching Assistant

                                                            University of California, Santa Barbara, California

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IV.              HONORS AND AWARDS

·         Litton Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 2002.

·         ISU, Young Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2001.

·         CAREER Award, 1998, National Science Foundation,.

·         Finalist for the best student paper award, American Control Conference, 1997, Albuqurque, New Mexico.

·         Dean’s fellowship for outstanding graduate performance, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992.

·         NSF CAREER Panel: 2002

 

 

V.                 ACADEMIC AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

A.                Teaching

     Courses Developed and Taught

·         EE 476                                    Control Systems Lab (F97, F98,F99,F00)

·         EE 570                                     Engineering Mathematics (F 98)

·         EE 674                                     Engineering Optimization (S 02)

·         EE 575                                     Robust Control  (F02)

 

     Teaching—Courses Taught

·         EE 578                                                 Modern Control Systems II (S98,S99,S00,)   

·         EE 579                                     Adaptive Control Systems  (F00)  

·         EE 321                                     Linear Systems (F01,S01)

·         EE 577                                     Modern Control Systems I (Linear Systems) (F02)

 

B.                 Research Areas

 

·         Robust control

·         Dynamical systems

·         Nanotechnology

·         Scanning probe microscopy

·         Control of molecular systems

·         Control in Real Time computing.

 

VI.              GRANTS & CONTRACTS

EXTERNAL GRANTS

1.       National Science Foundation (ECS-0330224)

Title: Sensors: High Bandwidth and Minimally Invasive Micro-cantilever Sensing Based on         Transient Dynamics and Thermal Noise Effects  

Investigators: Murti V. Salapaka (PI)

Amount : $299,686

Duration: 09/2003-08/2006

 

2.       National Science Foundation (CMS-0301516) (Continuing Grant)

Title: Collaborative Proposal:  Structured Control Design and Application to Microcantilever Based Imaging

Investigators:, Murti V. Salapaka (PI) (with P. Voulgaris, UIUC)

Amount : $100,000

Duration: 09/2003-08/2006

 

3.       National Science Foundation (ECS-0300463) (Continuing Grant)

Title: Collaborative Proposal: Integrated parameter and control design

Investigators: Murti V. Salapaka (PI) (with M. Khammash, UCSB)

Amount : $208,713

Duration: 04/2003-04/2006

 

4.       Asylum Research

Equipment Grant

Molecular Force Probe (3D) (Installed in NanoDynamics Systems Lab;2002)

Investigator: Murti V. Salapaka (PI)

Amount: $150,000.00

 

5.       National Science Foundation (CMS-0201516)

Title: Model Development and Control Design of Broadband Nanopositioners

Investigators:  Murti V. Salapaka (PI) and Ralph Smith

Amount: $300,000.00

Duration: May 2002- May 2005

 

6.       DARPA: MOSAIC

Title: Maintaining a contant tip-sample separation; subcontract from UCLA

Investigators Murti V. Salapaka (PI)

Amount: Total of $ 400,000 with Phase 1: $178,000 for April 1, 2002-September 30, 2003.  Phase 2 (subject to review of phase 1): $222,000 October 1 2003-sept.30 2005

 

 

7.       National Science Foundation

Title: Robust Real-Time System Resource Manangement Using Feedback

Investigators: M. Govindarasu, M. V. Salapaka, A. K. Somani

Amount: $110,000.00

Duration: Feb. 1, 2001-July 31, 2002.

 

8.       National Science Foundation

Title: (CAREER) Modeling, dynamical analysis and control of microcantilever based devices

Investigator: Murti V. Salapaka (PI)

Amount: $320,000.00

Duration:  May 1998-May 2003

 

 

9.       Digital Instruments

Equipment Grant

Multimode Atomic Force Microscope (Installed in NanoDynamics Systems Lab;1998)

Investigator: Murti V. Salapaka (PI)

Amount: $176,000.00

 

 

INTERNAL GRANTS

 

10.   ISU CARVER Grant

Title: Combinatorial Imaging Using Micro-cantilevers

Investigators: M. V. Salapaka (PI) and R. Weber

Amount: $ 25,0000.

Duration:  04/16/2003-07/31/2004

 

11.   Seed grant for nanotechnology  (ISURF)

Title: Analysis and control of quantum dynamics: magnetic force microscopy study of magnetic molecular nanomagnets at low temperature

Investigators: D. D’Alessandro, Borsa, F,  Miller, L., M. V. Salapaka

Amount: $ 29,000.00

Duration:  Feb. 2001-January 2002

 

12.   University Research Grant

Title: Microcantilever based nano-machining

Investigator: Murti V. Salapaka (PI)

Amount; $15,000.00

Duration: July 1, 1998 – June 30, 1999

 

13.   Foreign Travel Grant

Investigator: Murti V. Salapaka (PI)

Amount; $1125.00

Duration: July 4-12, 1998

 

14.   Special Research Initiation Grant

Title: Modeling and control of atomic force microscopes

Investigator: Murti V. Salapaka (PI)

Amount: $ 10,000.00

Duration: Jan 1, 1998 – Dec. 31, 1998

     

 

 

 

VII.            TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

 

BOOKS

Murti V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh,  Multiple Objective Control Synthesis,  LNCIS, Vol. 252, Springer-Verlag, New York 2000, 200 pages.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

1.       A. Sebastian(s), S. Salapaka, M.V. Salapaka, “Systems Tools for Applied to Microcantilever Based Devices,” Multidisciplinary Research in Control: The Mohammed Dahleh Symposium 2002. Eds. L. Giarre' and B. Bamieh, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences N. 289, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3-540-00917-5

 

2.       M.V. Salapaka(c), M. Khammash, “Multi-objective MIMO Optimal Control “ in the book  Robustness in Identification and Control,  LNCIS, 245, Springer, New York 1999, pp. 306-317.

 

3.       M. Khammash(a), M.V. Salapaka, Tim Vanvoorhis, “Robust Synthesis in l_1: A globally optimal Solution” in the book  Robustness in Identification and Control,  LNCIS, 245, Springer, New York 1999, pp. 318-328.

 

 

     

REFREED JOURNAL PUBICATIONS

1.     S. Salapaka(s), A. Sebastian, J. P. Cleveland and M. V. Salapaka, "High Bandwidth Nano-positioner: A Robust Control Approach", Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 73, no. 9, September 2002, pp. 3232-3241. 

 

2.     M. Sridharan(sa) , M. V. Salapaka, A. Somani, “A Practical Approach to Operating Survivable WDM Networks”, Special Issue on WDM Based Network Architectures, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on  WDM-based Network Architectures. vol. 20, no. 1, January 2002.                             

 

3.     M. Sridharan(sc), A. Somani, M. V. Salapaka, “Approaches for Capacity and Revenue Optimization in Survivable WDM Networks”,  Spl. Issue on Survivable  Optical Networks,  Journal of High Speed Networks,  August 2001. vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 109 -125,

 

4.     A. Sebastian(sc), M. V. Salapaka, D. J. Chen, J. P. Cleveland,”Harmonic and power balance tools for tapping –mode AFM”, Journal of Applied Physics, June 2001, Vol. 89, Nov. 11, pages. 6473-6480.

 

5.     M. Khammash(a), M.V. Salapaka,  T. VanVoorhis,”Robust Synthesis in l1: A globally optimal solution”,  IEEE Trans. Automatic Control,  Volume: 46 Issue: 11 , Nov. 2001, Page(s): 1744 -1754

 

6.     M.V. Salapaka(c), D. Chen, J. Cleveland, “Linearity of amplitude and phase in tapping-mode  atomic force microscopy”,  Phys. Rev. B. ,  V61, no. 2:pp.1106-1115, January 2000.                                                                                             

 

7.     M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Khammash, M. Dahleh, “ Solution of MIMO H2/l1 problem without zero interpolation”, SIAM Journal on Optimization and Control, V37, no. 6, pp.1865-1873.

 

8.     M. Ashhab(sc), M. V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh, and I. Mezic, “Melnikov-based dynamical analysis of microcantilevers in scanning probe microscopy”, Nonlinear Dynamics, 20: (3), pp. 197-220, November 1999.

 

9.     M. Ashhab(sc), M. V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh, and I. Mezic, “Dynamical analysis and control of micro-cantilevers”, Automatica, Vol. 35, no. 10, 1663-1670 October 1999

 

10. M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Dahleh, and P. Voulgaris, “Mimo optimal control design: the interplay of the H2 and the l1 norms”, IEEE Transactions  on  Automatic  Control, V43, no. 10:pp.1374-1388, October  1998.

11. M. V. Salapaka(c), H. S. Bergh, J. Lai, A. Majumdar, and E. McFarland, “ Multimode noise analysis of cantilevers for scanning probe microscopy”, Journal of Applied Physics, 81, no. 6:pp. 2480-2487, March 1997.

 

12. M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Dahleh, and P. Voulgaris., “Mixed objective control synthesis: Optimal l1/H2 control”,  SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, V35 no. 5:pp. 1672--1689,  September, 1997.

 

13. M. V. Salapaka(c), P. Voulgaris, and M. Dahleh, “SISO controller design to minimize a positive combination of the l1 and the H2 norms”,  Automatica,  V33, no. 3:pp. 387--391,  March 1997.

 

14. M. V. Salapaka(c), P. Voulgaris, and M. Dahleh, “ Controller design to optimize a composite performance measure”, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications,  V91, no. 1:pp. 91-113, October 1996.

 

15.  V. Ramakrishna(sa), M. V. Salapaka(sa), M. Dahleh, H. Rabitz, and A. Pierce, “ Controllability of molecular systems”, Physical Review A., V51, no. 2:pp. 960-966, Feb 1995.

 

 

REFREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

 

1.       Xin, Qi, M. V. Salapaka, P. Voulgaris, M. Khammsh, “Structured optimal control with applications to network flow coordination” Accepted to American Control Conference, 2003.

 

2.       R. Smith, M. V. Salapaka.”Model development and control design for high speed nanopositioning”, 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2002.

 

3.       D. Sahoo(s), A. Sebastian,  M. V. Salapaka, “Transient Detection of Atomic Force Microscopy”, Proceedings of the Allerton Conference, Urbana, Illinois, October, 2002.

 

4.       D. Sahoo(s), M. V. Salapaka, Al-Omari, R. Somani  A. Manimaran, G. “ Feedback Control theory for Real-time Scheduling” American Control Conference,  col.2, pages: 1254-1259, Anchorage,  2002

 

5.       Abu  Sebastian(s),  M. V. Salapaka, “Analysis of Periodic Solutions in Tapping Mode AFM”, IEEE symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and  Systems, University of   Notredame, South Bend, Indiana, August 12, 2002.

 

6.       Qi, Xin(sa), M. Khammash, M. V. Salapaka, “Integrated Parameter and Control Design”, American Control Conference, vol. 6, pages: 4888-4893, Anchorage, Alaska, 2002.

 

7.       Salapaka, Srinivasa(s),  A. Sebastian, J. P. Cleveland and M. V. Salapaka,” Design, Identification and Control of a fast Nanoposiutioning Device”, American Control Conference, vol. 3, pages:1966-1971, Anchorage, Alaska, May, 2002

 

8.       D. Sahoo(s), M. V. Salapaka, “Constructive control for quantum mechanical systems”, IEEE Conference on  Control and Decision Conference, Volume: 2 , 2001  Page(s): 1601 –1606

 

9.       Qi, X(sa)., M. H. Khammash, and M. V. Salapaka,” A Matlab Package for Multiobjective Control Synthesis”,  IEEE conference on Decision and Control, 2001, Volume: 4 , 2001 Page(s): 3991 -3996

 

10.   Qi, X(sa)., M. H. Khammash, and M. V. Salapaka, “Optimal controller synthesis with multiple objectives”, Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington VA, 2001, pp: 2730-2735.

 

11.   Qi, X(sa)., M. H. Khammash, and M. V. Salapaka, “A new approach to multiple-objective controller synthesis”, Proceedings of the 38th annual allerton conference on communication, control and computing, Allerton, Urbana, Illinois, 2000.

 

12.   R. Rajaram(s), M. V. Salapaka, M. Basso, M. Dahleh, “Experimental verification of stochastic resonance”,  Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, 2000.

 

13.   M. V. Salapaka(c), D. J. Chen, J. P. Cleveland, “Harmonic analysis based modeling of tapping mode AFM,” Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego California.

 

14.   M. Basso(c), M. Dahleh, I. Mezic, M. V. Salapaka, “Stochastic resonance in atomic force microscopes,”  Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego California.

 

15.   M. V. Salapaka(c), D. J. Chen, J. P. Cleveland, “Stability and sensitivity analysis of periodic orbits in tapping mode atomic force microscopy,” Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, December 1998, pp. 2047-2052.

 

16.   M. Khammash(a), M. V. Salapaka , T. Vanvoorhis, “Synthesis of globally optimal controllers in l1 sing linear relaxation,” Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, December 1998, pp. 3315-3320.

 

17.   S. Salapaka(c), M. V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh, I.Mezic, “Complex dynamics in repeated impact oscillators,” Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, December 1998, pp. 2053-2058.

 

18.   M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Khammash  “Multi-objective MIMO optimal control design without zero interpolation”, Proceedings of the 1998 American Control Conference,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, June 1998, Vol. 1, pp.660-664.

 

19.   A. Daniele(c), S. Salapaka, M.V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh “Piezoelectric Scanners for Atomic Force Microscopes: Design of Lateral Sensors, Identification and Control” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, California , June 1999, pp. 253-257

 

20.   M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Khammash, and M. Dahleh, “Recent progress in mixed objective control synthesis with l1 and H2 norms”,  Proceedings of the ASME conference, 1998.

 

21.   M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Khammash, and M. Dahleh, “Solution of MIMO H2/l1 problem without zero interpolation”, Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San-Diego, CA, 1997, pp. 1546-1551.

 

22.   A. Daniele(c), T. Nakata, L. Giarre, M. V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh , “Robust Identification and Control of Scanning  Probe Microscope Scanner”, Proceedings Volume from the

       IFAC Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1997. p. 33-8.

 

23.   M. Ashhab(sc), M. V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh and I. Mezic., “Control of chaos in atomic force microscopes”,  Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Albuqueque, New Mexico June 1997.

 

24.    M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Dahleh, A. Vicino, and A. Tesi, “Nominal H2 performance and l1 robust performance,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. pp. 4034-4039, Kobe, Japan,  December 1996.

 

25.   M. V. Salapaka(c) and M. Dahleh, “l1/H2 control”, Proceedings of the Allerton Conference, Urbana, Illinois, 1997.

 

26.   M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Dahleh and P. Voulgaris, “MIMO optimal control design: the interplay of the H2 and the l1 norms,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 1, pp: 3682-3687, New Orleans, La., December 1995.

 

27.   M. V. Salapaka(c), P. Voulgaris and M. Dahleh, “ Controller design to minimize a composite measure of the l1 and the H2 norms”, Proceedings of the third Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control  and Automation”, Vol. 2 pp: 93-100, Cyprus, 1995.

 

28.   M. V. Salapaka(c), P. Voulgaris and M. Dahleh, “ Controller design to optimize  a composite performance measure”, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference  on Decision and Control, Vol.1, pp: 817-22, New Orleans, La. December 1995.

 

29.    M. V. Salapaka(c), M. Dahleh and P. Voulgaris, “Mixed objective control synthesis: optimal l1/H2 control”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Vol. 2,  pp. 1438-1442, Seattle, Washington,  June 1995.

 

ordering by (c )  contribution, (s) student (a) alphabetical

 

 

 

 

VIII.         CITATIONS

The above papers were cited 86 times in the period Jan 1995 to March 2002 (as per Science Citations Index)

 

IX.              INVITED TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

 

1.       Invited: “ Possible directions for coding in Transient Signal detection”,  Ecole Polyrechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland, July 27-29, 2003

 

2.       Invited Speaker: “A short course- Microcantilever Technology: A systems approach” Universita degli studi di Firenze, Italy, July 23-24, 2003.

 

3.       Invited Poster: “Thermal Noise Based Control of Tip-Sample Separation” DARPA-MOSAIC meeting, Beverly Hills, Renaissance, Los Angeles, California, October 16, 2002.

 

4.       Invited  Speaker: “Systems Tools Applied to Micro-cantilever based Devices and Nanotechnology.” Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, January 24, 2003.

 

5.       Invited Speaker: “H∞ Loopshaping for Nanopositioning”, Asylum Research, Santa Barbara, California, October 18, 2002.

 

6.       Invited Speaker “ System Tools Applied to Micro-Cantilever based Devices”, Mohammed Dahleh Symposium, Feb 9, 2002, University Of California, Santa Barbara.

 

7.       Invited Speaker, “ Multiobjective Robust Control: Theory and Applications,” Mathematics Department, North Carolina State University, October 26, 2001.

 

8.       Invited Speaker,” Ultrafast Tools for Nanotechnology”, Asylum Research Inc., Goleta, California, September 13, 2001.

 

9.       Invited Speaker,” Robust Synthesis in l1: A globally optimal solution”, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles, January 26, 2001.

 

10.   Invited Speaker “ Ultrafast Tools For Nanotechnology”, DARPA-MOSAIC Workshop, Greenbelt Madison, August 21, 2001.

 

11.   Invited speaker," Global solution to the l1 robust performance problem", Electrical Engineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, April 21, 2000.

 

12.   Invited speaker, “Atomic Force Microscopes: A Case Study of MicroelectroMechanical Devices”, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, April 20, 2000.

 

13.   Invited Speaker,”Harmonic Balance tools for AFM”, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2000.

 

14.   Invited speaker, “ Analysis of periodic orbits in atomic force microscopy”, Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, University of Padua, Padua, Italy,  July 6-10, 1998.

 

15.   Invited speaker, “ Multiobjective H2/l1 control synthesis”, Siena, Italy, June 1998.

 

16.   Invited speaker, “Stability and sensitivity of periodic orbits in atomic force microscopy”

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 24, 1998.

 

17.  Invited speaker, “Multiobjective control synthesis”, Aerospace Department, Iowa State University, April 7 1998.

 

18.  Invited speaker, “Stability and sensitivity of periodic orbits in atomic force microscopy” University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, April 3 1998.

 

19.  Invited speaker, “Multiobjective Control Synthesis”, Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1996.

 

 

 

X.                 STUDENTS

Masters

  1. Abu Sebastian, Masters, given the  ISU, Research Excellence Award. for his Masters Thesis, “Harmonic Analysis Based Identification of Tapping-Mode AFM Dynamics,” December 1999.
  2. Rajeev Rajaram , Masters, “Study of Nanodynamics Using the Atomic Force Microscope.” July 2001,

 

 

 

PhD

1.      Xin Qi, PhD. Graduated (Fall 2002)

2.      Abu Sebastian,  (advanced to candidacy) Expected to complete by Fall 2003

3.      Anil Ganepalli. (advanced to candidacy) Expected to graduate by Summer 2003;

4.       Deepak Sahoo  (passed qualifiers, Fall 2001)

5.       Vikas Yadav   (passed qualifiers Fall 2002)

6.        Tathagatha De (passed qualifiers Fall 2002)

7.        Hullas Sehgal

 

 

 

XI.              EXTENSION/OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

  • Invited engineers from Digital Instruments and taught control design techniques at University of California at Santa Barbara. This activity is being continued at Iowa State University, 1999.
  • Abu Sebastian, R. Rajaram (students) worked at Asylum Research during April 2001
  • Abu Sebastian and M. V. Salapaka visited Asylum Research during September 2001
  • Abu Sebastian  and D. Sahoo visited Asylum Research during  March 2002
  • Abu Sebastian and M. V. Salapaka visited Asylum Research during February 2002
  • Abu Sebastian visited Asylum Research for a week during October 2002.

 

XII.           DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

  1. P&T Committee, (1997-1998)
  2. Computer Usage Committee ( 2000-2001)
  3. Computer Usage Committee  ( 2001-2002).
  4. Faculty Search Committee (2001-2002) during which the department was successful in hiring nine new faculty. I played a key role in identifying candidates and the subsequent evaluation of the candidates.
  5. Awards Committee (2002-2003)
  6. HCI Search Committee(2003)

 

XIII.         PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  1. Panelists for the ECS-NSF CAREER Awards 2002.
  2. Chair of a session on positioning during American Control Conference, 2002.
  3. Chair of a session on MEMS and Nanotechnological Devices, Conference on Decision and Control, 2002.
  4. Organized and Chaired a session on quantum control in IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2001
  5. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control System Society
  6. Member American Association for Advancement of Science
  7. Reviewer for the Following Journals:

                        IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

 

                        IEEE Transactions on Computer System Technology

 

            Automatica

 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME Transactions Journal  on Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control

 

Journal of Applied Physics