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Ketan Savla

Research Scientist
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)
Massacusetts Institute of Technology
Bldg 32-D716 MIT
77 Massacusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Phone: (617) 324-0095
Email: ksavla (at) mit (dot) edu


Professional Bio
Ketan Savla is a research scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.A. in Applied Mathematics, both in 2007, from the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004. His current research interest is in control and optimization techniques for mobile cyber-physical systems, humans-in-loop systems, complex networks and computational neuroscience. His awards include CDC-ECC'05 best student paper finalist and CCDC best thesis award from UCSB.


Personal Bio
Ketan Savla was born in the town of Dombivli near Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in India in 1982. He finished his secondary school at Model English School in 1997 and higher secondary school at D. G. Ruparel College in 1999. Thereafter, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from where he received B. Tech. in 2003. He started his graduate studies at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he finished M.S. in 2004. He received his M.A. in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, both in 2007, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since 2007 he is with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was first a postdoctoral associate and now a research scientist.

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