Research Associate in Industrial Systems and Network Analysis
Academic Division: Manufacturing and Management
Research group: Manufacturing Systems
Email: sm2608@eng.cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Manufacturing execution systems (MES/MOM), Machine learning applications, Industrial IoT, Reconfigurable supply chains, Enterprise system architectures, Systems analysis and design, Data infrastructures
Research projects
- Mandala Consortium--Transforming Urban Food Systems for Public and Planetary Health, 2022–ongoing
- Manufacturing Academy of Denmark - Innovation fund, 2018–2021
- MADE WP3.7 - Flexible, agile, and sustainable production enabled by talented employees, 2020
- MADE Digital WP5.4 - Developing smart and integrated factories, 2018–2020
- Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research - Efficient technologies and systems for mobility, 2014-2015
Teaching activity
- Teaching assistant for MPhil in Technology Policy and MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School, 2022–ongoing
- Teaching assistant in Denmark for master in management engineering - Enterprise Engineering and Design, 2018-2021
Other positions
Work experience:
- 2018–21: Research assistant/PhD Fellow, Manufacturing Academy of Denmark (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- 2015–18: Research analyst, Mordor Intelligence - Startup (Hyderabad, India)
- 2014–15: Trainee, Paul Scherrer Institut - ETH Domain (Zurich region, Switzerland)
- 2014: Master thesis intern, Alstom corporate headquarters (Paris, France)
- 2011–12: Technical center engineer, Amada Co (Bangalore, India)
Biography
I am a mechanical engineer with a PhD in industrial engineering and information systems. Intrigued by the internet revolution, I started my PhD in 2018 in Denmark, where I primarily worked with LEGO and Danfoss as case companies. The Manufacturing Academy of Denmark (made.dk) financed my work, where I applied Industry 4.0 principles to factory operations and was able to bring my research into practice. Before PhD, I have about five years of work-ex in the industry and consulting.
I am passionate about advanced digital technologies and believe in their ability to resolve significant global challenges, such as food insecurity. With a growing fascination for thinking machines, I like to design information systems architectures drawing from stakeholder inputs to use modern artificial intelligence solutions and the internet of things. In addition, I am interested in enabling the efficient use of manufacturing data from the factory floor to the cloud to prevent supply chain shortages. In the future, I hope to continue working with programmers and computer scientists to apply machine learning techniques to industrial problems.
Due to my climate change volunteering streak since high school, I previously volunteered closely for a few environmental groups such as iycn.in, ecologise.in and Lamakaan in my hometown, Hyderabad. I enjoy nature walks and sports and have a red belt in kickboxing.
Department role and responsibilities
Subcommittee member in communications at Postdocs of Cambridge Society