Name: Dr. Dinesh Krishnamoorthy
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Bio:
Dinesh Krishnamoorthy is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). From 2022-25, he was appointed as an Assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Eindhoven.
He also held a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Dinesh received his PhD in Process Systems Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), MSc in Control Systems from Imperial College London, and B.Eng in Mechatronics from the University of Nottingham.
Dinesh also has more than four years of industrial research experience. He was working as a Senior Researcher at Statoil Research centre, Norway between 2012-2016, and was also a part-time Senior Data Science consultant for Novo Nordisk R&D (2021).
Dinesh is the recipient of the
Dimitirs. N. Chorafas Foundation Award (as one of 35 worldwide),
Excellence in Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) PhD Award by the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE),
NTNU Faculty of Natural Sciences Best PhD Thesis Award, as well as an IFAC Young author award.
His research interests include distributed optimization, numerical optimal control, real-time optimization, and Bayesian optimization.
