Navin Khaneja (Harvard)

Navin Khaneja, received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1994. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and M.A. in Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. He received Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard in 2000.

After graduation, he joined the Mathematics department at Dartmouth college as an Assistant Professor in year 2000. After working at Dartmouth for a year, he joined the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard in 2001, where he is Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. His current work involves developing optimal control techniques for control and estimation of quantum dynamics, with applications to high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of proteins. His broad research interests are in the problems of control, optimization and statistical inference. He was awarded Jury award for his doctoral thesis work on ``Geometric Control in Classical and Quantum Systems''. He was awarded NSF career award in 2001 and a Sloan fellowship in Mathematics in 2003.