Nurali Nizar Virani

PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Pennsylvania State University) MS, Electrical Engineering (Pennsylvania State University) MS, Mechanical Engineering (Pennsylvania State University) ME, Industrial Engineering and Management (IIT Kharagpur) BE, Manufacturing Science and Engineering (IIT Kharagpur)

Dr. Nurali Nizar Virani is a Lead Scientist in the Machine Learning team under Artificial Intelligence (AI) organization at GE Research. He is a multidisciplinary researcher with a strong academic and research background in machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization theory, control theory, sensor fusion, signal processing, motion planning, and mechatronics. He works on designing, developing, and deploying algorithms to systematically address some challenges in learning and control. He has worked on several projects including: AI-driven control and optimization of wind farms, active learning for surrogate modeling and sequential optimization of oil reservoirs, AI-driven safe control of power generation units, creating computational models from semantic knowledge graphs, learning from demonstration in telerobotics, etc. His current research interests are in making AI aware of its competence and to improve its competence via continuous learning (Humble AI) as well as making AI consistent and aligned with human scientific knowledge. He has been awarded the 2018 GE Global Research CTO Technology Award for Outstanding Research (5 Under 5), 2 GE Impact Awards, and 3 GE Above and Beyond awards.


Prior to joining GE, he was a research assistant at Penn State. His research was on data-driven modeling of physical processes using nonparametric statistical learning methods for density estimation, symbolic time-series analysis, Bayesian sensor fusion, and Markov decision processes for context-aware sensor selection in multi-modal sensor networks. As a part of Networked Robotics and Systems Lab, he worked on game theory and robust optimization for his M.S. thesis in Electrical Engineering. In Penn State, he also worked on intelligent sensor fusion for fault detection and classification projects. He was awarded a silver medal for academic excellence, when he graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2011.
 

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Outside work, Nurali enjoys exploring new places, watching documentaries, spending time with family and friends, and an occasional game of pool/billiards.
 

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