Faculty Bio
  Saroj K. Biswas, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: 215-204-8403
Email: sbiswas@temple.edu
Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~sbiswas
   
  Degrees
  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada, October, 1985.
  • M.Sc.in Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering, Bangladesh, Dec, 1977.
  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering, Bangladesh, May, 1975.
Research Interests
  • Systems and Control
  • Robust and Optimal Control
  • Nonlinear Control
  • Distributed parameter systems
  • Stochastic systems
  • Electrical machines

Selected Publications

  • Biswas S.K. and Qing Dong, “Reduction of Cargo Pendulation for Ship-Mounted Crane”, ASNE Seabasing Conference, January 26-27, Alexandria, VA, 2005.  
  • Shahani, H., Biswas, S.K., Sendaula, M., and Pallila, H., “An Intelligent Interactive Tutoring System for Engineering Education”, ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, June, 2004. 
  • Sendaula, M, Biswas S.K., Teter J., and Brady D., “A Control System for a Hybrid Linear Actuator for a Flush Deck Hatch”, American Control Conference, Boston, June 2004. 
  • Biswas S.K., “Optimum Feedback Control of a Gantry Crane for Minimum Load Oscillations”, International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications”, Atlanta, May 20-24, 2003.  
  • Mulik J., Conrad P., Drake B., Biswas S.K., and Sendaula M., “MTreeDx: A Multicast Diagnosis Tool”, Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management, Colorado Springs, March 24-28, 2003.  
  • Biswas S.K. and Ahmed N.U., “Optimal Control of Flow-Induced Vibration of Pipeline”, Dynamics and Control, Vol. 11, pp. 187-201, 2001.  
  • Biswas S. K. and Subrahmanyam M. B., “Worst-Case Optimal Regulation of Linear Systems in the Presence of Structured Perturbations”, in Optimization Methods and Applications, eds. X. Yang, K.L. Teo, and L. Caccetta, Kluwer Academic, pp. 45 - 64, 2001. 
  • Subrahmanyam M.B. and Biswas S.K., “Model Reduction with a Finite Horizon H-infinity Criterion”, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, March, 1999.   
  • Kasangaki V.B., H. M. Sendaula, and S.K. Biswas, “An Artificial Neural Network for Optimal Power Flow”, International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 225-229, 1998.  
  • Biswas S.K., “Robust Stabilization of Linear Systems in the Presence of Gaussian Perturbation of Parameters”, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, vol. 19, pp. 271-286, 1998.  
  • Biswas, S.K., and M. B. Subrahmanyam, “Worst-case Estimation of Unknown Sinusoids Contained in Corrupted Measurement Data”, 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, pp. 3153-3157, June, 1998.  
  • Biswas S.K., Chen S-J, and Satyanarayana A., “Optimal Temperature Tracking for Accelerated Cooling Processes in Hot Rolling of Steel”, Dynamics and Control, Vol. 7, pp. 327-340, 1997.  
  • Biswas S. K. and Ahmed N.U., “Disturbance Rejecting Optimal Regulation of Hyperbolic Systems”, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, Vol. 8, pp. 241-256, 1995.  
  • Kasangaki V. B.A., H. M. Sendaula and S. K. Biswas, “Stohastic Hopfield Artificial Neural Network for Electric Power Production Costing”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 1525-1533, 1995.  
  • Satyanarayana A., S.K. Biswas, and S-J. Chen, “Control System Design for Accelerated Cooling Processes for Optimized Temperature-Time Tracking”, Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, pp. 663 - 674, ASME, Nov. 1994.  
  • Satyanarayana A., S-J. Chen, and S.K. Biswas “Dynamic Modeling of Accelerated Cooling Processes using Finite Element Method”, Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, pp. 601 - 610, ASME, Nov. 1994.
Projects
  • Musoke Sendaula and Saroj K. Biswas,Science and Engineering Interactive Learning Communities”, funded by National Science Foundation, 2002-2005.  
  • Saroj K. Biswas and Musoke Sendaula, “An Intelligent Agent for Isolation of Incipient Faults in Communication Networks”, funded by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 1999-2000.
Present Teaching (Spring 2008)
  • ELECTROMECHANICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS