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Navin Khaneja
- Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering
Contact Information
| Office: | Maxwell Dworkin 335 |
| Email: | navin [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu |
| Office Phone: | (617) 384-8132 |
| Office Fax: | (617) 495-2809 |
| Assistant: | Gioia Sweetland |
| Office: | Maxwell Dworkin 239 |
| Email: | gioia [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu |
| Office Phone: | 617/495-2919 |
Recruitment Status
Education
- B.Tech., 1994, Electrical Engineering, IIT, Kanpur
- M.A./M.S., 1996, Mathematics/Electrical Engineering, Washington University
- S.M., 1999, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
- Ph.D., 2000, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
Research Interests
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- Applied Mathematics & Computational Science
- Control Theory and Stochastic Systems
Primary Teaching Area
Profile
Navin Khaneja is broadly interested in the area of mathematical control theory, signals and systems. His current research lies at the interface of control and information theory and physics. He is working on developing geometric techniques for optimal control of quantum mechanical phenomenon.
The work has proven promising for optimal pulse sequences in high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. These optimal pulse sequences minimize the effects of decoherence and maximize the sensitivity of NMR experiments. Optimal pulse design can lead to significant reduction of time required for structural analysis of proteins. The work also has immediate applications to the areas of quantum information and computing.
Professor Khaneja is also very interested in the areas of robotics, computer vision, statistical inference and image understanding. His current work in the area of robotics involves design of feedback controllers for stabilization of nonholonomic control systems with applications to locomotion systems.
His recent work in Medical Imaging and Human Brain Mapping develops rich class of probabilistic models to capture inherent variability present in the anatomies and involves design of computationally efficient Bayesian inference algorithms for extracting anatomical information from noisy data collected through various imaging modalities.
Positions & Employment
Harvard School/Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- July 2008-Present: Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering
- July 2005-July 2008: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
- July 2001-June 2005: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dartmouth College
- July 2000-June 2001: Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Other Experience
- Member, Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
- Member, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- Member, American Physical Society (APS).
- Co-organizer of the school on “Quantum Control of Light and Matter” to be held at Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa-Barbara, 2009
- Served on the scientific committee for the first meeting on “control, constraints and quanta” in Poland, 2007, and “Mathematical foundations of quantum information and control,” in Madrid, Spain, 2008
- Organizer of the second meeting on principles and applications of control in quantum systems, Harvard 2006
- Served on international program committees for Pracqsys 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
- Co-organized the first meeting on principles and applications of control in quantum systems (Pracqsys), Caltech, 2004
- Served on NSF review panels on quantum and biological inspired computing. Co-organized workshops on ‘control of quantum systems” in the CDC conference, 2002, 2004
- Reviewed publications for Science, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, IEEE Transaction of Automatic Control, System and Control Letters, Mathematics of Signals and Systems, Physica D, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Physical Review, Journal of Chemical Physics, Quantum Information Processing, Control and Decision Conference (CDC) and American Control Conference (ACC)
Honors
- Bessel Prize, Humboldt Foundation, 2005
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 2003
- National Science Foundation Career Award, 2001
- Jury award for outstanding thesis in the area of control theory, Harvard University, 2000
- National talent search scholarship, awarded by National Council of Education, Research
and Training (NCERT), India, 1988-1994
Selected Publications
- N. Khaneja "On some model problems in quantum control", Communications in Information Systems, Roger Brockett's 70th birthday article (to appear).
- J. Lin, M. Bayro, R.G. Griffin and N. Khaneja, "Dipolar Recoupling in Solid State NMR by Phase Alternating Pulse Sequences" Journal of Magnetic Resonance 197, 145-152 (2009).
- H. Arthanari, D. Frueh, G. Wagner, B. Pryor and N. Khaneja "Fourier Synthesis techniques for NMR Spectroscopy in Inhomogeneous Fields" Journal of Chemical Physics, 128, 214503 (2008).
- H. Yuan, R. Zeier and N. Khaneja "Elliptic functions and efficient control of spin systems with unequal couplings " Physical Review A , 77, 032340 (2008).
- B. Pryor and N. Khaneja "Fourier synthesis techniques for control of inhomogeneous quantum systems" IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, December (2007).
- N. Khaneja and N.C. Nielsen "Triple oscillating field technique for accurate measurement of internuclear distances by solid state NMR spectroscopy" Journal of Chemical Physics, 128, 015103 (2008).
- N. Khaneja "Switched Control of Electron Nuclear Spin Systems " Phys. Rev. A , 76, 032326 (2007) .
- H. Yuan, S.J. Glaser and N. Khaneja "Geodesics for efficient creation and propagation of order along Ising Spin Chains" Phys. Rev. A , 76, 012316 (2007) .
- Haidong Yuan and N. Khaneja " Reachable set of bilinear control systems under time varying drift " System and control letters, 55, 501 (2006).
- N. Khaneja, C. Kehlet, S.J. Glaser and N.C. Nielsen " Composite dipolar recoupling: Anisotropy compensated coherence transfer in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance " Journal of Chemical Physics vol. 124, 114503 (2006).
Faculty CV
Khaneja 2008.pdf
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