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Manuel is a PhD Research Fellow at the University of Agder. Hailing from Kerala, India, he received his bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Mahatma Gandhi University in India.
Finding the academic career enticing, he pursued his first master’s degree by research in systems engineering from the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD). During his research, he was attached to the UBD|IBM Centre, which was an industry-academia collaboration between UBD and the International Business Machines (IBM). His area of research was the application of AI in power system management.
He joined the University of Agder in 2019 as a master’s student in Renewable Energy and undertook his thesis on the applications of AI in renewable energy integrated systems.
Currently, he is a research fellow in the collaborative project AIMWind (Analytics for asset Integrity Management of Windfarms) between the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) and Mechatronics Group at UiA. His focus is on machine learning and analytics for windfarm life extension.