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Researcher

Kishalay Mitra

Kishalay Mitra is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and an associated faculty member in Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change at IIT Hyderabad, where he develops machine learning and optimization tools for manufacturing processes and wind energy. He earned chemical engineering degrees at NIT Durgapur in 1995, IIT Kanpur in 1997 and IIT Bombay in 2009, and spent nearly 15 years in engineering leadership roles at GE Global Research and Tata Research Development & Design Centre. After visiting professorships at the University of Washington and Washington University in St. Louis between 2013 and 2017, he headed IIT Hyderabad's chemical engineering department from 2020 to 2023 while publishing on deep-learning system identification for grinding circuits and neural architecture search for hot rolling and wind forecasting. With Richard Everson and Jonathan Fieldsend, he coedited a 2025 volume on machine learning in wind energy conversion systems, received Indian patents on hot-rolled steel design in 2024 and semi-batch bioreactors in 2026, and joined the 2026 Stanford Top 2% Scientists list.

Timeline

  1. 1995–2009

    Chemical engineering degrees

    He earns a B.E. in Chemical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Durgapur in 1995 and begins research around 1995 on applying evolutionary multi-objective optimization to a Nylon 6 polymerization reactor. He receives an M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur in 1997 and completes a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay in 2009 with the thesis “Dynamic analysis and optimization of uncertain supply chain systems.”

  2. 2013–2019

    Visiting professorships and IBM partnership

    In July 2013, he joins the M.A.P.L.E. research group at the University of Washington as a visiting professor from IIT Hyderabad, followed by visiting professorships at Washington University in St. Louis from May 2014 to July 2014 and at the University of Washington in Seattle from April 2017 to July 2017. In 2019, he becomes an associate editor of the Springer journal Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series E and an academic partner of IBM Research India under its Open Science Collaboration Program.

  3. 2020

    Department head and grinding circuits

    With M. S. Soumitri, he coauthors “Deep Learning based System Identification of Industrial Integrated Grinding Circuits” in Powder Technology in 2020. From 2020 to 2023, he serves as head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad.

  4. 2022

    Neural search in hot rolling

    Collaborating with M. S. Soumitri and I. Mohanti in 2022, he coauthors the chapter “Performance improvement in hot rolling process with novel Neural Architectural search” in the Springer book Machine Learning in Industry. He also receives the IIT Hyderabad Research Excellence Award in 2022.

  5. 2023–2024

    Wind forecasting and steel patent

    His 2023 paper “Better Wind forecasting using Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search driven Green Deep Learning” appears in Expert Systems With Applications. In January 2024, he and his co-inventors receive Indian Patent No. 503430 for a system and method to determine the optimum design of hot-rolled steel products.

  6. 2025

    A wind energy AI book

    In January 2025, he edits Optimization, Uncertainty and Machine Learning in Wind Energy Conversion Systems with Richard Everson and Jonathan Fieldsend for Springer Nature. That 2025 research also includes a Physics of Fluids study with U. D. Tiwari and N. S. Ghaisas using large eddy simulations to evaluate how yaw misalignment and wind farm column misalignment affect wake losses.

  7. 2026

    Bioreactor patent and Stanford list

    In June 2026, he and his co-inventors receive Indian Patent No. 593195 for a biocompatible head plate for semi-batch bioreactors. IIT Hyderabad's Chemical Engineering department lists him among scientists featured in the Stanford Top 2% Scientists list for 2026.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at IIT Hyderabad

    As of October 2026, he is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and an associated faculty member in the Departments of Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change at IIT Hyderabad, and serves as a mentor for the Global Sustainability Challenge. Before joining academia, he spends nearly 15 years in engineering leadership roles at GE Global Research in Bangalore and Tata Research Development & Design Centre in Pune. At IIT Hyderabad's Department of Artificial Intelligence, his research develops AI and machine learning tools to analyze complex manufacturing data and optimize performance under uncertainty.

Career

  1. NowIndian Institute of Technology HyderabadProfessor in Chemical Engineering
  2. General ElectricEngineering leadership roles
  3. Tata Research Development and Design CentreEngineering leadership roles

Education

  1. 2009IIT BombayPh.D.
  2. 1997Indian Institute of Technology KanpurM.Tech
  3. 1995National Institute of Technology DurgapurB.E. in Chemical Engineering

From the biography.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes General Electric. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

Sources and credits

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  4. M.A.P.L.E Lab Home depts.washington.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
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  6. Department of ChE @ IITH che.iith.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.
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  8. ChemEng@IITH che.iith.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. Optimization, Uncertainty and Machine Learning in Wind Energy Conversion Systems - Google Buku books.google.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  10. ChemEng@IITH che.iith.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.
  11. Kishalay Mitra | IIT Hyderabad iith.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.
  12. Kishalay Mitra | GSC Mentor globalsustainabilitychallenge.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  13. Applied Research Areas – Department of Artificial Intelligence ai.iith.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.