Ramavarapu S Sreenivas

Ramavarapu S Sreenivas is a Professor in the Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with research appointments at the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) and the Information Trust Institute (ITI). He holds a joint affiliation with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and serves as the Arthur Davis Faculty Scholar since 2016.

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (1990)
• M.S.E.E., Carnegie Mellon University (1987)
• B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (1985)

His research focuses on Discrete-Event/Discrete-State (DEDS) systems, applying Coding Theory, Machine Learning, and Information Theory to develop near-optimal supervisory policies for applications in wireless networks, automated manufacturing, and healthcare systems. He leads the Center for Autonomous Construction and Manufacturing at Scale (CACMS), established in 2023.

Recent publications highlight advancements in liveness enforcement in Petri nets, fault-tolerant control, and IoT-based load scheduling. His work bridges theoretical rigor with practical implementations in Distributed Control, Network Coding, and Reinforcement Learning.

• UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching (2023)
• Arthur Davis Faculty Scholar (2016)
• Senior Member, IEEE (2002)
• James Franklin Sharp Outstanding Teaching Award in Industrial Engineering (2017, 2012)

Sreenivas has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Control Systems, Integer Programming, and Financial Computing since 1992. He co-instructed courses in Health Technology and contributed to the Master of Science in Financial Engineering (MSFE) program, which ranks 4th nationally.