Kishalay Mitra

Kishalay Mitra is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, with affiliations to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Climate Change, and Department of Artificial Intelligence. He also holds visiting professorships at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Washington, Seattle. His work in the Global Optimization & Knowledge Unearthing Laboratory (GOKUL) spans interdisciplinary optimization, machine learning, and their applications in industrial-scale engineering problems.

• Education: Ph.D. from IIT Bombay.

Research Interests: Mitra's research focuses on optimization under uncertainty, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization, and integrating machine learning with physics-based models. His work addresses real-world challenges in wind energy, bioenergy supply chains, chemical process control, nanoscience, and environmental modeling (e.g., PM10 spatiotemporal analysis, forest fire prediction, and carbon capture).

Article Trends: His recent publications emphasize wind energy systems (layout optimization, yaw control, forecasting), materials science (precipitate growth prediction, polymerization), and industrial processes (crystallization, grinding circuits). Techniques include neural operators, Bayesian optimization, generative adversarial networks (GANs), and explainable AI.