Ketan P. Detroja

Timeline

1. 2006

   A PhD at IIT Bombay

   He earns a B.E. from D. D. Institute of Technology in Gujarat and completes a PhD at IIT Bombay in 2006. In 2006, he coauthors a study on fault detection and isolation using correspondence analysis with R. D. Gudi, S. C. Patwardhan, and K. Roy in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

2. 2011

   ADCONIP student paper award

   In 2011, his paper with R. D. Gudi and S. C. Patwardhan on data reduction and fault diagnosis using the principle of distributional equivalence wins a Best Student Paper Award at ADCONIP in Zhejiang.

3. 2013

   Batch-process monitoring paper award

   At DYCOPS in Mumbai in 2013, he and E. Arora publish a paper on uneven-length batch-process monitoring using function-space correspondence analysis that wins a Best Student Paper Award.

4. 2016–2019

   Microgrid and Kalman-filter papers

   In 2016, he publishes a study of autonomous microgrid operation that proposes an integrated framework to increase stability, reliability, and economy. With K. Subhash Babu in 2019, he coauthors an inverse-free Kalman filter in IEEE Control Systems Letters using approximate inverses of diagonally dominant matrices.

5. 2020

   Doctoral supervision and desalination design

   In the 2020 PhD batch at IIT Hyderabad's Department of Artificial Intelligence, he guides Kranthi Kumar P., whose research interests include reinforcement learning for process-control applications. In 2020, he and P. Dimple Raja publish a study in Desalination on the optimal design of energy sources and a reverse-osmosis desalination plant with demand-side management.

6. 2022–2023

   Reinforcement-learning controller papers

   In 2022, he and Kranthi Kumar Pasagadugula coauthor a parameterized adaptive controller design that uses reinforcement learning and deep neural networks for the Eighth Indian Control Conference. At the European Control Conference in 2023, they coauthor a PI-controller design using reinforcement learning for a nonlinear multivariable system.

7. 2025

   Adaptive PID and decoupling control

   In 2025, he and Sourabh Yadav publish a paper on reinforcement-learning-based adaptive PID control for unstable non-minimum-phase systems with delay at the International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies. With Suresh Aldhandi at IIT Hyderabad in December 2025, he coauthors a study at the Indian Control Conference on dead-time compensation and inverted decoupling control for highly interacting multivariable processes.

8. As of October 2026

   Associate professor at IIT Hyderabad

   In 2026, he and Sourabh Yadav publish a multi-agent reinforcement-learning paper on adaptive PI control for multivariable processes in the American Control Conference proceedings. As of October 2026, he is an associate professor in Artificial Intelligence and Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad; his research interests include control theory, state estimation, AI/ML, AI for control systems, and reinforcement learning for process control.