Contact Information

Courses

• CH EN 7753-7755: Graduate Seminar

• CH EN 7203: Robust Multivariable Control

• CH EN 6353: Graduate Fluid Mechanics

• CH EN 5203/6203, ME EN 5210/6210: States Space Control Methods

• CH EN 4203: Process Dynamics and Control

• CH EN 6703: Applied Numerical Methods

• CH EN 1703: Topics in Chemical Engineering

• CH EN 4903/5905: Projects Lab

Education

• MS (Electrical Engineering/Industrial and Remote Control), Odessa State Polytechnic University, Ukraine

• PhD (Control of Technical Systems), National Technical University (KPI), Ukraine

• PhD (Chemical Engineering), University of Colorado/Boulder

Research Interests

• Modeling, identification, and control of dynamic systems

• State estimation in linear and nonlinear stochastic systems

• Control of biomedical processes, devices and treatments

• Use of medical imaging in real-time control of therapies

• Sensors and methods for interfacial characterization of materials

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Associates

• Current:

  • Tony Butterfield

  • Guy N. Bergeson

  • Ran Niu

  • Adam Blankespoor

  • Praveena Mohan

• Former:

  • Prashant Tathireddy (Research Assistant Professor, University of Utah)

  • Dhiraj Arora (GE Corporate Research)

  • Huichai Zhang (Intel Corporation)

  • Yunn-Hong Choi (Samsung Electro-Mechanics Fundamental Technology Center, Central R&D Institute)

  • Guruprasad Giridharan (Assistant Professor, University of Louisville)

  • Hee-Kyung Lee

  • Jesse Price (Exxon)

  • Stacy Firth (Yield Dynamics, Inc. )

  • Arjun Vadapalli (Applied Biosciences)

Selected Publications

H. Zhang, M. Basin and M. Skliar, “Ito-Volterra Optimal State Estimation with Continuous, Multirate, Randomly Sampled, and Delayed Measurements,'' IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 52:401-416, 2007.

Y.-H. Choi, P. Tathireddy, M. Skliar, “Method for Measuring Thickness of Dielectric Films Using Microdielectric Fringe-Effect Sensors ,” Anal. Chem., 78:3242-3248, 2006.

D. Arora, D. Cooley, T. Perry, M. Skliar and R. Roemer, "Direct thermal dose control of constrained focused ultrasound treatments: phantom and in vivo evaluation," Phys. Med. Biol., 50:1919-1935, 2005.

Y.-H. Choi and M. Skliar, "Standard-Independent Estimation of Dielectric Permittivity with Microdielectric Fringe-Effect Sensors," Anal. Chem., 77:871-877, 2005.

D. Arora, M. Skliar, and R. Roemer, "Minimum-Time Thermal Dose Control of Thermal Therapies," IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng., 52:191-200, 2005.

Y.-H. Choi and M. Skliar, "Quantitative Measurements of Dielectric Spectra with Microdielectric Fringe-Effect Sensors," Anal. Chem., 76:4143-4149, 2004.

G.Giridharan, G.Pantalos, S.Koenig, K.Gillars and M. Skliar, "Physiologic Control of Rotary Blood Pumps: An In-Vitro Study," ASAIO J., 50:403-409, 2004.

G. Giridharan and M. Skliar, "Control Strategy for Maintaining Physiological Perfusion with Implantable Rotary Blood Pumps," Artificial Organs, 27: 639--648, 2003.

M. Skliar and P. Tathireddy, Approximation of Evolutional System Using Singular Forcing,"  Computers & Chemical Engineering, 26:1013-1021, 2002.

D. Arora, M. Skliar, R. B. Roemer, "Model Predictive Control of Hyperthermia Treatments," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 49:629-639, 2002.

Awards, Honors and Memberships

• Outstanding new research published in Phys. Med. Biol. in 2005.

• NSF CAREER Award

• American Heart Association Established Investigator Award

• Member of AIChE, IEEE, ACS, STM, ASAIO

• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Controls Systems Technology

Links

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