From: dhingra@src.umd.edu
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Subject: EE PhD.==> Research position in Controls/Communications/O.R.
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:21:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: src.1992Sep2.162122.23943
Organization: Systems Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: dhingra@molecule.src.umd.edu



			JASTEJ S. DHINGRA 


Present Address: 				Office Address:
9801 Cherry Tree Lane 				Systems Research Center
Silver Spring, MD-20901.			University of Maryland 
		 				College Park, MD-20742. 
e-mail: dhingra@src.umd.edu			Tel: (301) 405-6568. 


OBJECTIVE
	 
	 Position involving research and development in the fields of
	 electrical engineering and/or operations research, with
	 special interest in system modeling, analysis and control

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 	 Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 

	 Thesis: Reconfigurable Control in Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. 
	 Advisor:Prof. Gilmer L. Blankenship.	Expected Completion: Oct'92. 

M.S.	 Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA. (July'88) 

	 Thesis: Estimation of Nonlinear Systems Using Jump Matrix Technique. 
	 Advisor:Prof. Richard L. Moose. 

B. Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Inst. of Technology, Kanpur. (May'86) 


EXPERIENCE

Consultant						May'91-Aug'91
Techno-Sciences Inc.,
Greenbelt, MD. 

	Developed and analyzed  detailed simulation models of  Telephone Order
	Processing Systems. Evaluated parameter sensitivities for network
	optimization.Also involved in modeling and analysis of a Trunked Radio
	Network.  

Consultant						June'90-Aug'90
Texas Instruments Inc.,
Johnson City, TN.  

	Involved in  the design, implementation and installation of Operations
	Scheduling software ABES (Annealing Based Experiment in Scheduling).
	ABES  is  being used to schedule the surface mount machines of the
	Custom Manufacturing Unit at Johnson City.

Graduate Research Assistant				Jan'90-present
Systems Research Center,
University of Maryland. 

	Developed simulation models for various Discrete Event Dynamic
        Systems (DEDS).Conducted research on reactive scheduling and feedback 
	control algorithms for manufacturing systems. Presently working on
	re-configuration control algorithms and their applications to
	manufacturing systems as  special case of DEDS.  

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept. of Electrical Eng., University of Maryland.	Aug'89-Dec'89
Dept. of Electrical Eng., Virginia Tech.		Sept'86-Jun'88

	Conducted instruction/tutorial sessions for junior/senior level
	Electrical Engineering courses.  Instructor for various junior and
	senior level electronics laboratory courses.  Also assisted professors
	in in-class instruction at the graduate level. 


Summer Intern						May'85-Aug'85
Gogoi Consultants,
Kanpur, India.

	Design and fabrication of a Data Acquisition and Display System 
	for a Thermal Power Plant in Assam, India. 

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

   *	Dhingra, J.S., Moose, R.L., VanLandingham, H., and Lauzon, T.A.:
	``A Computationally Efficient Technique for State Estimation of
	Nonlinear Systems,''  Automatica, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 395-399,
	Mar. 1992. 

   *	Musser, K.L., Dhingra, J.S., and Blankenship, G.L.:
	``Optimization based Job Shop Scheduling,'' to appear in  
	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control., Feb'93. 
	(Also SRC Technical Report TR 91-9) 

   *	Dhingra, J.S., Musser, K.L., and Blankenship, G.L.: 
	``Reactive Operations Scheduling for Manufacturing Systems,'' 
	accepted for presentation at IFAC Workshop on Intelligent 
	Manufacturing Systems}, 1992.

   * 	Dhingra, J.S. and Blankenship, G.L.: ``Online Parameter Optimization
   	for a Multi-product, Multi-Machine Manufacturing System,'' 
	accepted for presentation at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
	1992. (Also SRC Technical Report TR 92-35).

   *	Dhingra, J.S., Musser, K.L., Blankenship, G.L. and Ferguson, L.:
   	``Annealing based Experiment in Scheduling,'' to appear in  Texas
	Instruments Technical Journal. (Also SRC Technical Report TR 91-15)

   *	Dhingra, J.S., Mehta, R., Blankenship, G.L. and Sharon, A.:
   	``Simulation Modeling of a Trunked Radio Network,'' accepted for 
	presentation at Winter Simulation Conference, 1992.

   * 	Dhingra, J.S., Musser, K.L., and Blankenship, G.L.: 
   	``Realtime Operations Scheduling for Manufacturing Systems,'' 
	accepted for presentation at Winter Simulation Conference, 1992.

   *	Blankenship, G.L., Dhingra, J.S. and Lavigna, A.:
   	``Optimization of Order Processing Systems,'' submitted to 
	ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

   *	Dhingra, J.S., and Blankenship, G.L.:``Optimal Impulse Control for
   	a Failure-Prone Machine''. In preparation.

AWARDS and HONORS

   * 	Graduate School Fellowship}, University of Maryland, College
   	Park MD. (1988-89) 

   *	Best Senior Year Project Award for design of Speech Network with 
   	Distributed Control, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. (1986) 

   * 	Member  Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

REFERENCES
   
  	Available on request. 
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