Dr. Prashant Mhaskar – Faculty of Engineering
Prashant Mhaskar

Dr. Prashant Mhaskar

Expertise

Process control, nonlinear Lyapunov-based and model predictive control, fault-tolerant control, control of hybrid systems.

Areas of Specialization

Research Clusters

Current status

  • Accepting graduate students

  • Professor

    Chemical Engineering

Overview

Prashant Mhaskar is a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University. His research interests include nonlinear model predictive control and fault tolerant control and data driven batch process modeling and control. Research results from Dr. Mhaskar have resulted in over 160 journal articles, and two monographs. He enjoys teaching, mentoring and learning from his HQP and has supervised 3 PDFs, 28 Phd, 21 MASc and over 45 undergraduates students so far. His research on data driven (and hybrid model based) control has been fueled by and developed in collaboration with industrial partners such as Johnson Controls Inc., Praxair Inc., Hydromantis, Sartorius Inc., Corning Inc., Imperial Oil, GSK and Honeywell. Over his career he held the Canada Research Chair in Nonlinear and Fault-Tolerant Control and the McMaster University Scholar award. He was awarded the D.G. Fisher award in 2022. He has served on and chaired the discovery grant committee in the past and presently serves as an Associate Editor for Automatica.

Did you know?

Prashant is an avid Tennis, Squash, Badminton and chess player.

Current Graduate students 
(see McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC)  website for student awards) 

  1. Hesam Hassanpour, current Ph. D. student, started September, 2018
  2. Debanjan Ghosh, current Ph. D. student, started May, 2018
  3. Nikesh Patel, current Ph. D. student, started September, 2017
  4. Maaz Mahmood, Part-time Ph.D. Student
  5. Praveen Sundaresan Ramesh, current Ph.D. student, co-supervised with Chris
    Swartz, started September, 2018
  6. Satyam Agnihotri, current M.A.Sc. student, co-supervised with David Latullippe,
    started September, 2018

Past Graduate students

  1. Tyler Homer, Ph. D. , January 2016-April 2019, currently Process Engineeri at Arcelor Mittal Dofasco
  2. Abhinav Garg, Ph. D., January 2014-August 2018, currently Post Doctoral Fellow at McMaster
  3. Hadi Shahnazari, Ph. D., January 2014-May 2018, currently research associate at McMaster
  4. Masoud Kheradmandi, Ph. D. , January 2014-May 2018, currently Post Doctoral Fellow at McMaster.
  5. Mudassir Rashid, Ph. D., co-supervised with Chris. L. E. Swartz, 2013-2016, currently Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT Chicago
  6. Brandon Corbett, Ph. D., June 2011- June 2016, currently Process Control Engineer at Prosensus
  7. Rahul Gandhi, Ph.D., September 2006-August 2010, currently Advanced Process Control Engineer at Praxair
  8. Masoud Golshan, Ph.D., September 2006-2010, co-supervised with John MacGregor, John MacGregor was the primary supervisor, currently at Shell
  9. Siam Aumi, Ph.D., September 2007-March 2012, currently at Corning
  10. Miao Du, Ph.D., September 2008-August 2012, currently at Ecosynthetix
  11. Matt Wallace, Ph.D., June, 2011-May, 2015 (currently Project Engineer with Polar Knowledge Canada)
  12. Buddhadev Das, Ph.D., January 2011- May 2015, currently at Stelco Lake Erie Works
  • B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1999)
  • M.S. Chem Eng., Louisiana State University (2001)
  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (2005)
  • P. Eng., Ontario

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