Muddu Madakyaru is an Associate professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. He received B.E. degree in Chemical Engineering and M.Tech. in Chemical plant Design from the R.V.C.E and National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India respectively. In the year 2010 he obtained his Ph.D degree in process control from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Later he was involved in post-doctoral research at Texas A&M University, Doha, Qatar for four years. His research interests are in advanced process control, including, system identification, Fault detection and diagnosis, model predictive control and latent variable regression modeling using wavelets. He has published more than 20 papers in peer reviewed journals and 10 international conference proceedings papers. He is fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education and Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering (ISSE).