- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Professor and Kim Tompkins McDivitt '88 & Phil McDivitt '87 Faculty Fellow
- Phone: 979-458-4514
- Email: kravaris@tamu.edu
- Office: CHEN 236
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology – 1984
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology – 1981
- Diploma, Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece – 1979
Research Interests
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- Process control
- State observers
- Fault detection and isolation
Selected Publications
- P. Du, R. Ranjan, B. Wilhite and C. Kravaris, “Model-based fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control in safety-critical chemical reactors: An experimental study”, AIChE J, 72 (2026), e70378.
- R. Ranjan and C. Kravaris, “Model-Predictive Fault-Tolerant Control of Safety-Critical Processes Based on Dynamic Safe Set”, Journal of Process Control, 144 (2024), 103329.
- S. Venkateswaran and C. Kravaris, “Design of linear unknown input observers for sensor fault estimation in nonlinear systems”, Automatica, 155 (2023), 111152.
- C. Kravaris and S. Venkateswaran, “Functional Observers with Linear Error Dynamics for Nonlinear Systems”, Systems Control Lett., 157 (2021), 105021.
- C. Kravaris and I. K. Kookos, “Understanding Process Dynamics and Control”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021.