Dr Prasad Ponnapalli

Senior Lecturer

My profile

Biography

Academic and professional qualifications

Bachelors degree from JNTU Colleger of Engineering, Anantapur, India

Masters degree in Control and Instrumentation from IIT, Delhi, India

PhD from the Queen’s University of Belfast, U.K.

MIEEE

Other academic service (administration and management)

Part of Automation Systems Centre (ASCent) at Manchester Metropolitan University offering Certified courses in PLCOpen programming, Profibus and Profinet design and commissioning (http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/ascent/). 

Course leader for MSc Control and Instrumentation for Nuclear Engineering

Disability Coordinator for the Department of Engineering

Erasmus Coordinator for theDepartment of Engineering

Member of Faculty Working Group on Inclusion and Widening Participation

Languages

English, Telugu and Hindi

Prizes and awards

National Merit Scholarship, Government of India.

Visiting Studentship Award from the Queen’s University of Belfast, U.K.

Membership of professional associations

MIEEE

Get in touch

0161 247 1659
E337 John Dalton Building

Teaching

How I’ll teach you

Control Engineering

Industrial Automation: Programmable Logic Controllers Programming and application, Profibus

Simulation of Dynamic Systems

Intelligent Systems

Matlab, LabView, and CoDeSys based projects

Postgraduate teaching

Industrial Communication Systems

Control and Instrumentation for Nuclear Control

Subject areas

Control and Automation

Supervision

Supervised PhD and MPhil theses in the areas of Artificial Neura Networks for modelling and control, Virtual Instrumentation systems for real-time control, Automated Sinus Diagnosis using Image Processing and Artificial Neural Networks.

Research outputs

Adaptive and Intelligent Control Artificial Neural Networks Genetic Algorithms Pattern recognition and Fault diagnosis

  • Journal articles

    Ray, D., Collins, T., Woolley, S., Ponnapalli, P. (2021) 'A Review of Wearable Multi-wavelength Photoplethysmography.' IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 16pp. 136-151.

    Ray, D., Collins, T., Ponnapalli, P. (2021) 'Deep Neural Network Architecture Search for Wearable Heart Rate Estimations..' Studies in health technology and informatics, 281pp. 1106-1107.

    Twigg, P.M., Ponappalli, P., Fowler, M. (2018) 'Workshop problem-solving for improved student engagement and increased learning in Engineering Control.' International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, 55(2) pp. 120-129.

    Al-Kharji Al-Ali, O., Anani, N., Al-Qutayri, M., Al-Araji, S., Ponnapalli, P. (2016) 'Performance evaluation of the time delay digital tanlock loop architectures.' International Journal of Electronics, 103(1) pp. 88-112.

    Al-Kharji, O., Anani, N., Al-Qutayri, M., Al-Araji, S., Ponnapalli, P. (2012) 'Linearization of the first-order TDTL using a pre-distortion scheme.' IET Seminar Digest, 2012(3)

    Anani, N., Al-Kharji Alali, O., Ponnapalli, P., Al-Araji, S., Al-Qutayri, M. (2012) 'Synchronization of a renewable energy inverter with the grid.' Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 12pp. 225-233.

    Al-Ali, O.A.K., Anani, N., Al-Araji, S., Al-Qutayri, M., Ponnapalli, P. (2012) 'Digital tanlock loop architecture with no delay.' International Journal of Electronics, 99(2) pp. 179-195.

    Anani, N., Al-Kharji, O., Ponnapalli, P., Al-Araji, S., Al-Qutayri, M. (2012) 'Synchronization of a single-phase photovoltaic generator with the low-voltage utility grid.' Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 134(1)

    Al-Ali, O.A.K., Anani, N.A., Al-Qutayri, M.A., Al-Araji, S.R., Ponnapalli, P.V.S. (2011) 'Adaptive second-order TDTL with optimized performance.' IET Seminar Digest, 2011(4)

    Anani, N., Al-Ali, O.A., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., AL-Qutayri, M.A., Al-Araji, S.R. (2011) 'Synchronisation of a single-phase wind energy generator with the low-voltage utility grid.' Renewable Energy & Power Quality,

    Anani, N., Williamson, J., Ponnapalli, P. (2010) 'Single-phase single-stage AC-DC converter with reduced line-current harmonics.' Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, 1(8) pp. 1510-1513.

    Deloughry, R.J., Pickup, E., Ponnapalli, P. (2001) 'Closed loop control of a pneumatic conveying system using tomographic imaging.' Journal of electronic imaging, 10(3) pp. 653-660.

    Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Ho, K.C., Thomson, M. (1999) 'A formal selection and pruning algorithm for feedforward artificial neural network optimization.' IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, 10(4) pp. 964-968.

    Ho, K.C., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Thomson, M. (1998) 'Modified direct inverse control of CSTR process with disturbances.' Systems Science, 24(4) pp. 37-52.

  • Conference papers

    Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Alexoulis-Chrsovergis, A.C., Dwivedi, A.K. (2023) 'Work-in-Progress: Remote Learning and Online Experimentation for Large Cohorts.' 763 LNNS. pp. 857-864.

    Ray, D., Collins, T., Ponnapalli, P.V.S. (2022) 'DeepPulse: An Uncertainty-aware Deep Neural Network for Heart Rate Estimations from Wrist-worn Photoplethysmography.' 2022. 11/7/2022 - 15/7/2022. IEEE, pp. 1651-1654.

    Al-Ali, O.A.K., Anani, N., Al-Qutayri, M., Al-Araji, S., Ponnapalli, P. (2014) 'Digital tanlock loop without a phase shifter.' pp. 851-855.

    Al-Ali, O.A.K., Anani, N., Al-Qutayri, M., Al-Araji, S., Ponnapalli, P. (2012) 'Second-order single channel digital tanlock based phase-locked loop.'

    Anani, N.A., Al-Kharji, O.A., Ponnapalli, P.V., Al-Araji, S.R., Al-Qutayri, M.A. (2011) 'Synchronization of a single-phase photovoltaic generator with the low-voltage utility grid.' pp. 327-333.

    Anani, N., Al-Ali, O.A.K., Ponnapalli, P., Al-Araji, S.R., Al-Qutayri, M.A. (2011) 'Synchronization of a single-phase photovoltaic generator with the grid.'

    Al-Ali, O.A.K., Anani, N.A., Ponnapalli, P., Al-Araji, S.R., Al-Qutayri, M.A. (2011) 'Dual Time Delay Digital Tanlock Loop with improved performance.'

    Al-Kharji Al-Ali, O.A., Al-Araji, S., Anani, N., Al-Qutayri, M., Ponnapalli, P. (2010) 'Adaptive TDTL using frequency and phase processing techniques.' pp. 530-533.

    Anani, N., O'Reilly, D., Williamson, J., Ponnapalli, P. (2010) 'Minimisation of line current harmonics in single-phase AC-DC converter using a microcontroller.'

    Anani, N., Benchebra, D., Ponnapalli, P., Natsheh, A.R. (2010) 'Prediction of line current harmonics in an AC-DC converter using neural networks.' pp. 66-69.

    Al-Kharji Al-Ali, O., Anani, N., Ponnapalli, P., Al-Qutayri, M.A., Al-Araji, S.R. (2010) 'TDTL architecture with fast error correction technique.' pp. 475-478.

    Al-Ali, O.A.K., Anani, N., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Al-Araji, S.R., Al-Qutayri, M.A. (2010) 'Single channel digital tanlock based loop.' pp. 368-372.

    Al-Ali, O.A.K., Anani, N.S., Al-Qutayri, M.A., Al-Araji, S.R., Ponnapalli, P.V.S. (2010) 'Time delay digital tanlock loop with acquisition-aided circuit.' pp. 373-376.

    Natsheh, A.R., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Anani, N., Benchebra, D., Atef, E.K., Norburn, P. (2010) 'Segmentation of bone structure in sinus CT images using self-organizing maps.' pp. 294-299.

    Al-Araji, S.R., Al-Kharji Al-Ali, O.A., Al-Qutayri, M.A., Anani, N.A., Ponnapalli, P. (2010) 'Improved performance second order time delay digital tanlock loop.'

    Natsheh, A.R., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Anani, N., Benchebra, D., El-kholy, A. (2010) 'Neural networks-based tool for diagnosis of paranasal sinuses conditions.' pp. 780-784.

    Benchebra, D., Anani, N., Ponnapalli, P., Natsheh, A.R. (2010) 'A new algorithm for completing fragmented boundaries in images.' pp. 791-794.

    Natsheh, A.R., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Anani, N., El-Kholy, A. (2008) 'Automated tool for diagnosis of sinus analysis CT scans.' In 27th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, ENGLAND, 10/12/2007 - 12/12/2007. Ellis, R., Allen, T., Petridis, M. (ed.) SPRINGER-VERLAG LONDON LTD, pp. 133-+.

    Plant, K.A., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Southall, D.M. (2008) 'Mobile Robots and EEG - A Review..' Bramer, M., Coenen, F., Petridis, M. (ed.) Springer, pp. 363-368.

    Deloughry, R., Ibrahim, I., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Lingard, P., Benchebra, D. (2007) 'PXI-based electrical capacitance tomographic imaging system applied to flow control and mass flow measurement.' pp. 495-502.

    Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Benchebra, D., Deloughry, R., Ibrahim, I. (2007) 'Application of an ANN-based controller for the control of pneumatic conveyed polypropylene pellet flow.' pp. 677-682.

    Benchebra, D., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Deloughry, R. (2003) 'Image reconstruction in process tomography using hierarchical self-organising maps.' pp. 409-414.

    Deloughry, R., Davenport, I., Ma, X., Ponnapalli, P.V.S. (2003) 'Development of a virtual instrument system for industrial process tomography.' pp. 756-760.

    Drabble, D., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Thomson, M. (2001) 'GA optimisation of PID controllers - Optimal fitness functions.' In International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing 2000. DE MONTFORT UNIV, LEICESTER, ENGLAND, 2000 - John, R., Birkenhead, R. (ed.) PHYSICA-VERLAG GMBH & CO, pp. 183-190.

    Ho, K.C., Ponnapalli, P.V.S., Thomson, M. (1997) 'A novel MULTI-TYPE architecture for FANNs.' In 5th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. UNIV CAMBRIDGE, CHURCHILL COLL, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, 7/7/1997 - 9/7/1997. INST ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS INSPEC INC, pp. 239-244.