Harikrishna Rao Mohan Rao

Harikrishna Rao Mohan Rao (Hari) is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His research focuses on advanced data-driven solutions for the improvement of industrial alarm systems. He received a B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kerala, India, in 2012, where he was awarded the Proficiency Prize for the Best Outgoing Student. Hari joined the Advanced Alarm Management and Design (AAMD) Research Group at the University of Alberta as a graduate student with over seven years of industrial experience in process control and automation, alarm management, and fault detection. He holds two patent-approved invention disclosures for his work on the early detection of component failures using process data. His research works have been accepted to prestigious conferences, namely, the American Control Conference and the IFAC World Congress. Hari was recently awarded the IEEE Systems Council James O. Gray Graduate Scholarship. He is a student member of IEEE and the International Society of Automation.