Who am I?

How I’ll teach you

Control Engineering

Industrial Automation: Programmable Logic Controllers Programming and application, Profibus

Simulation of Dynamic Systems

Intelligent Systems

Matlab, LabView, and CoDeSys based projects

Academic Biography

Academic and professional qualifications

Bachelors degree from JNTU Colleger of Engineering, Anantapur, India

Masters degree in Control and Instrumentation from IIT, Delhi, India

PhD from the Queen's University of Belfast, U.K.

MIEEE

Previous employment

Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow working on Interaction Analysis in Multivariable Systems for designing Controllable Systems in collaboration with ICI. Also worked with South of Scotland Electricity Board on the development and implementation of real-time controllers.

Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh working on a pan-European project on Intelligent Training Systems for Indusrial Environments with in collaboration with Marconi UK, Axion, Denmark, Alcatel Alshthom Reserche, France, Centro Informazioni Studi ed Esperienze SpA, Italy, Iberduero, Spain, Laboaratorio de Ensayos E Invesigaciones Industriales, Spain and Universitat Del Pais Vasco, Spain.

Other academic service (administration and management)

Part of Automation Systems Centre (ASCent) at Manchester Metropolitan University offering Certified courses in PLCOpen programming, Profibus and Profinet design and commissioning (http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/ascent/).

Course leader for MSc Control and Instrumentation for Nuclear Engineering

Disability Coordinator for the Department of Engineering

Erasmus Coordinator for theDepartment of Engineering

Member of Faculty Working Group on Inclusion and Widening Participation

Languages

English, Telugu and Hindi

Teaching & Research Supervision

Why study Control and Automation?

Undergraduate courses

Control and Automation (Final Year)

Electrical Systems (Second Year)

Project supervision

Postgraduate teaching

Industrial Communication Systems

Control and Instrumentation for Nuclear Control

Postgraduate supervision (completed/in progress)

Supervised PhD and MPhil theses in the areas of Artificial Neura Networks for modelling and control, Virtual Instrumentation systems for real-time control, Automated Sinus Diagnosis using Image Processing and Artificial Neural Networks.

Research Expertise, Publications & Grants

Research expertise

Adaptive and Intelligent Control Artificial Neural Networks Genetic Algorithms Pattern recognition and Fault diagnosis

Academic collaborations

Intelligent SystemsMedical Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Publications

·Journal articles

PVS. Ponnapalli, KC. Ho, M. Thomson (1999).A formal selection and pruning algorithm for feedforward artificial neural network optimization.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS.10(4), pp.964-968.

·Conferences

A-R. Natsheh, PVS. Ponnapalli, N. Anani, A. El-Kholy (2008).Automated tool for diagnosis of sinus analysis CT scans.In:APPLICATIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS XV. Cambridge, ENGLAND, 10/12/2007. pp.133-+.

KA. Plant, PVS. Ponnapalli, DM. Southall (2007). Mobile Robots and EEG - A Review. In:SGAI Conf.. pp.363-368.

D. Drabble, PVS. Ponnapalli, M. Thomson (2001).GA optimisation of PID controllers - Optimal fitness functions.In:DEVELOPMENTS IN SOFT COMPUTING. DE MONTFORT UNIV, LEICESTER, ENGLAND, 2000. pp.183-190.

KC. Ho, PVS. Ponnapalli, M. Thomson (1997).A novel MULTI-TYPE architecture for FANNs.In:FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS. UNIV CAMBRIDGE, CHURCHILL COLL, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, 7/7/1997. pp.239-244.

Awards, Honours & Distinctions

Prizes and awards

National Merit Scholarship, Government of India.

Visiting Studentship Award from the Queen's University of Belfast, U.K.

Membership of professional associations

MIEEE

Manchester Met full-time employee and will teach at Manchester Metropolitan Joint Institute, Hubei University.