Abstracts
8 September
Customer Keynote: Trends in Mobility
10:00 –10:30
Latha Chembrakalam,
Continental Automotive India
Industry Academia Panel Discussion 1: Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset in the Engineers of Tomorrow
12:00 –13:00
India has a thriving startup system and many of these startups have gone on to become leading players in the Indian industry ecosystem. Some start-ups are incubated in “academic incubators.” Statistics show that over 50% of the incubators in the country are associated with educational institutions. Join this panel discussion to hear from incubation center experts, industry players, and academicians to understand:
- why and how academia can contribute to the needs of industry and startups in emerging technology trends
- how innovation in engineering pedagogy can have an impact on the talent pool
- how engineers and scientists of tomorrow can be prepared to address grand challenges
- the need for new modes of collaboration between industry and academia
Zahida Vaseem, MathWorks
Industry Panel Discussion 2: The Impact of AI + X in Engineering and Science
14:15 –15:15
AI is gradually becoming mainstream with development teams looking at it by design rather than as an afterthought. The use of AI in industries including automobile, aerospace, manufacturing, and medical devices is advancing engineering and research and accelerating product development. Embedding AI into machines and systems makes them intelligent. AI is now broadly distributed and exists on the device, on the edge, and on the cloud. This gives enterprises significant flexibility and the opportunity to develop transformative applications that predict the remaining useful life of machines, perform remote surgeries, develop automated driver assistance systems, and more. However, the development and deployment of AI in these embedded devices is not without challenges such as limited skills, non-availability of data and data complexity, the lack of tools to build models, and integration of AI projects to scale. This panel explores the adoption of AI technologies in multiple industries and how organizations are tackling these challenges.
Prashant Rao, MathWorks
Master Class—Scaling Artificial Intelligence (AI): From Development to Operationalization
11:00 –12:00
Drifting data poses three problems: detecting and assessing drift-related model performance degradation; generating a more accurate model from the new data; and deploying a new model into an existing machine-learning pipeline. See a solution that addresses each of these challenges through an example of a real-world predictive maintenance problem. We reduce the complexity and costs of operating the system—as well as increase its reliability—by automating both drift detection and data labeling. Learn how to develop streaming analytics on a desktop, deploy those solutions to the cloud, and apply AutoML strategies to keep your models up-to-date and their predictions as accurate as possible.
Highlights:
- Developing an end-to-end MLOps pipeline
- Monitoring an AI model from drifting data/ behaviour
- Generating automatic training datafrom incoming data<
- Retraining and redeploying models
- Use case: Battery SOC estimation
Master Class—AI Driven Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems
15:15 –16:15
Wireless communication is continuously evolving to make revolutionary changes across various applications and industries. New innovative approaches like artificial intelligence (AI) will solve traditional wireless problems and help achieve higher performance and efficiency. In this session, see how easy it is to apply AI capabilities to solve wireless communications problems in MATLAB®. You will learn how to be more efficient by leveraging various AI techniques, ready-to-use algorithms, and data generated with MATLAB.
Master Class—Electric Mobility and Future Grids: Accelerating the Transition Towards Net-Zero Emissions
11:00–12:00
Battery-powered vehicles are rapidly emerging as the future of mobility with the continued advances in manufacturing and charging technologies. As the engineers innovate to decarbonize energy production and transform mobility, simulation studies can play an important role in accelerating this transition.
In this master class, take a deep dive in battery and EV charger modeling, its integration with the electric grid, and perform system level simulation studies. The examples highlight the Model-Based Design approach, which can be a powerful enabler to test what-if scenarios and bring in efficiency in development. Explore the following topics:
- Battery System Design and Development:
- Building detailed battery cell and pack models along with a cooling system
- Performing thermal analysis and system level simulation of a BEV/FCEV
- Developing a battery management system (BMS)
- EV Charging:
- AC/DC charging techniques and associated power electronics control design
- Developing a ‘Fast DC Charger’ model using Simscape Electrical™
- Microgrid Simulation:
- Simulating microgrids with renewables (solar/wind), EVs, and energy storage systems
- Utilizing controller hardware and real-time simulation to test and validate energy management algorithms
Master Class—Developing Service-Oriented Architecture and Implementing Using Adaptive AUTOSAR and DDS
15:15 –16:15
The automotive industry is accelerating its investments in electrification, autonomous driving, connected vehicles, and modern user experience. These trends demand more computing power and innovative electric, electronic, and complex software architectures in cars.
The automotive industry is embracing service-oriented architectures (SOA) as a new paradigm to design software applications that are highly reusable, easy to update, and loosely coupled to hardware. SOAs are based on the concept that an application consists of a set of services that are dynamically discovered, published, subscribed, and reconfigured at run time. SOA concepts are used in multiple industry standards, including AUTOSAR, ROS, and DDS.
Highlights:
- What is SOA?
- Modeling and simulation of SOA-based services in Simulink™
- Adaptive AUTOSAR in Simulink
Dr. Rishu Gupta
MathWorks
Rishu Gupta is a principal application engineer at MathWorks India. He primarily focuses on automated driving and artificial intelligence applications. Rishu has over nine years of experience working on applications related to visual contents. He previously worked as a scientist at LG Soft India in the Research and Development unit. Rishu holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from BIET Jhansi; a master’s in visual contents from Dongseo University, South Korea, working on the application of computer vision; and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University Technology Petronas, Malaysia.
Uvaraj Natarajan
MathWorks
Uvaraj Natarajan is a senior application engineer at MathWorks focusing on 5G/LTE/WLAN/wireless and satellite communications. Prior to MathWorks, he worked with Cisco Systems on self-optimizing networks for the 5G/LTE market and developed expertise on end-to-end LTE networks. He has industry expertise on LTE ENB protocol stack development and LTE PHY development. He also worked at the Centre for Communication Systems Research, UK, on cognitive radios, relay systems, LTE-A, and CoMP systems. Uvaraj holds a master's degree in mobile and satellite communications from the University of Surrey, UK, and a B.E. in electronics and communications from Anna University, India.
Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam
MathWorks
Jayanth Balaji Avanashilingam works as a senior application engineer at MathWorks in the area of artificial intelligence. He primarily focuses on areas of data analytics applications involving time-series data. Jayanth has eight years of research and industrial experience, and has worked on developing AI, machine learning, and deep learning solutions for retail optimization, computer vision, natural language processing, and other application areas. Prior to joining MathWorks, Jayanth worked as a senior AI engineer at Impact Analytics, Bangalore.
Peeyush Pankaj
MathWorks
Peeyush Pankaj is a principal application engineer at MathWorks, where he has been promoting MATLAB products for data science. He works closely with customers in the areas of predictive maintenance, digital twin, enterprise integration, and big data. Peeyush has over 12 years of industry experience with a strong background in aviation. Prior to joining MathWorks, he has extensively worked on aircraft engine designs, testing, and certification. He has filed 25 patents on advanced jet engine technologies and prognostic health monitoring of aircraft engines. Peeyush holds a master’s degree in advanced mechanical engineering from the University of Sussex, UK.
Shripad Chandrachood
MathWorks
Shripad Chandrachood is a principal engineer at MathWorks focused on supporting key applications in the areas of electric mobility, power conversion, and grid simulation. For the past 15 years, he has helped customers adopt modeling and simulation workflows for developing advanced power electronics and energy systems and led business development initiatives in the energy production and industrial automation sectors. Prior to joining MathWorks in 2007, Shripad worked as an operations and control engineer with the TATA Power Company and as an automation engineer at Siemens, India. He holds a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the University of Pune and a master's in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA.
Vikrant Singh
MathWorks
Vikrant Singh works as a development manager for the Simscape product family in the MathWorks Bangalore office. He has over 16 years of industry experience in product development and has been working in the field of battery systems for the last 10 years. Vikrant holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from IIT-BHU and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Nukul Sehgal
MathWorks
Nukul Sehgal is a senior application engineer at MathWorks, where he leverages over a decade of software engineering experience as a technical strategist and SDV solution expert. He is a technology leader in SDV and SOA, guiding industries toward the adoption of the latest technology trends in software engineering. He is passionate about supporting customers with cutting-edge solutions in SDVs, SOA, embedded Linux, and high-performance computing (HPC). His deep knowledge encompasses cybersecurity, applied AI on embedded edge devices, cloud integration, and DevOps.
Nukul brings a proven track record of success, having previously led software engineering teams at Interface Microsystems. There, he spearheaded projects in ECU design, software and firmware development, and functional testing. His expertise extends to complete SDLC methodologies and adherence to industry standards like ASPICE, ISO 26262, and ISO 21434.
Rajat Arora
MathWorks
Rajat Arora is an automotive industry application engineer at MathWorks with a focus on verification and validation and code generation products. He has accumulated more than a decade of experience working in both the automotive and software industries. Before joining MathWorks, he worked at Magneti Marelli and Robert Bosch, where he led teams of engineers responsible for developing software for engine control, safety, and transmission systems. Rajat holds an M.B.A. from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Maharshi Dayanand University in Delhi/NCR.
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Latha is a dynamic business leader with close to three decades of experience. She joined Continental in 2021 as the head of TCI. In her role, she is responsible for engineering competence for global and local markets, focusing on automotive technologies that include autonomous mobility and safety, vehicle networking and information, and new technology. Latha also oversees the Continental Engineering Services, Artificial Intelligence, Architecture and Software, and Processes Methods and Tools (PMT) he[a]t Departments in India. Before joining Continental, Latha was a part of Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions, where she was responsible for the complete powertrain and electrification domain. She has also worked with Siemens Information Systems, handling business development in South Africa and as an R&D engineer with Bharat Heavy Electricals, Bangalore.
Latha holds a B.Tech degree in applied electronics and instrumentation from the Trivandrum College of Engineering. She is also a certified coach from CFI and was an awardee of the Top 10 Women Tech Leaders Award in 2022.
Prashant Rao
MathWorks
Prashant Rao heads the Application Engineering team at MathWorks India. He and his team focus on helping customers across industry verticals and application domains to accelerate and reduce risk in their development processes through the usage of MATLAB and Simulink products. He has a wide exposure with customers ranging from large enterprises to startups spanning commercial, government, and educational organizations. Prashant is a regular contributor at industry forums, sharing his views around megatrends in technology and especially how artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling engineers and scientists to build smarter systems.
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