Prof. Das completed his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1994, and received postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked for several years in the industry before joining Kansas State University in 2001. Prof. Das is primarily interested in biologically inspired computing, a field of study within artificial intelligence that borrows algorithms from various natural paradigms, such as Darwinian evolution, swarm intelligence, immune systems and neuronal structures to address problems that are too complex to be solved through conventional means. He is investigating the applications of these algorithms for specific optimization problems in plant genomics in collaboration with Prof. Welch and in distribution systems modeling in collaboration with Prof. Pahwa.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Electrical & Computer Engineering
2088 Rathbone Hall (BIC lab)
Tel: (785) 532-4664
Email: (in reverse)edu.ksu@praveen

Dr. Koduru received a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, India, an M.S. in Control Systems Engineering from West Virginia University Institute of Technology under the guidance of Prof. Asad Davari, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University under the guidance of Prof. Kumpati S. Narendra. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Kansas State University in 2006 under the guidance of Prof. Sanjoy Das and Prof. Stephen M. Welch. Dr. Koduru's research interests are in evolutionary algorithms, genomics, control systems, and artificial intelligence.

Mr. Li received his B. Eng. from Xi'an University of Technology, China, and M. Eng. from Shanghai University, China, in 2001 and 2004 respectively. From 2004 to 2005, he worked as a full-time research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From 2005 to 2006, he worked as a power system engineer in the Hygrand Electronic Equipment Company, China. Mr. Li's current research interests mainly focus on computational intelligence applications and power system control. At present he is working with Dr. Das in evolutionary algorithms.
   Mr. Li's other interests include Chinese calligraphy, badminton, hiking and music.

Xinye Cai received a Bachelor degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China and an M.S in Electronic Engineering from Bio-inspired architecture group, University of York. Currently he is a Ph.D. student under the guidance of Prof. Sanjoy Das and Prof. Stephen M. Welch. His main interest is in evolutionary computation and other bio-inspired algorithms, modeling and simulation, engineering design and evolvable hardware.

Gui Min received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Central South University, China, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Central South University, China, under the guidance of Prof.Luo An. She currently is a graduate student in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Kansas State University under the guidance of Prof. Anil Pahwa and Prof. Sanjoy Das. Gui Min's research interests are in power system reliability and artificial intelligence.

Eduard Plett received an MS in Electrical Engineering from KSU in 2006.