• Professor, Chemical Engineering
  • Professor and Kim Tompkins McDivitt '88 & Phil McDivitt '87 Faculty Fellow

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

    • 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.