Faculty Directory
Murti V. Salapaka
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D., EE, 1997, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
- M.S., EE, 1993, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
- B.Tech., ME, 1991, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Contact Information
- 5-161 EECS
- Telephone: (612) 625-7811
- E-mail: murtis
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- Personal Web Site
- Research Group Web Site
Honors/Awards
- Dean's fellowship for outstanding graduate performance, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992.
- CAREER Award, 1998, National Science Foundation.
- ISU, Young Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2001.
- Litton Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 2002.
- Students Tathagatha De and Abu Sebastian's paper highlighted in Photonics magazine, 2005.
- Thermally Driven Non-contact Atomic Force Microscopy highlighted in Nature, September 22, 2005.
- Student, Deepak Sahoo's paper, selected one of the top 5 papers at the American Control Conference, 2007.
- Keynote Lecture "Control and Systems Approaches to Atomic Force Microscopy", International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 17th IFAC World Congress, July 6-11, 2008, Seoul, Korea
Synopsis
Prof. Salapaka research spans control theory and its applications to nano-interrogation and bio-manipulation at the molecular scale using laser tweezers and atomic force microscopes
Selected Publications
- Tathagata De, Pranav Agarwal, Deepak R. Sahoo, and Murti V. Salapaka. "Real-time detection of probe loss in atomic force microscopy". Applied Physics Letters, 89 (2006): 133119.
- Anil Gannepalli, Abu Sebastian, Jason Cleveland, and M. V. Salapaka. "Thermally driven non-contact atomic force microscopy". Applied Physics Letters, 87.11 (2005): 111901.
- Xin Qi(s), M. V. Salapaka, Petros G. Voulgaris, and Mustafa Khammash. "Structured optimal and robust control with multiple criteria: A convex solution". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 49.10 (October 2004): 1623-1640.