PhD Scholars
Poornachandratejasvi Laxman Bhatta
MTech: Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
Research Interests: Coordination and control of smart grids, smart grid security and vulnerability assessment, co-simulation platform for smart grid.
Sachinkumar B Suthar
sachinkumar.suthar@iitgn.ac.in
MTech: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Research Interests: Peer-to-peer energy trading, Blockchain technology, Impacts of EV on grid, Microgrid Control, Applications of power electronics.
Abhishek Tiwari
tiwari_abhishek@iitgn.ac.in
MTech: Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
Research Interests: Auto Demand response, Modelling and control of AC, Battery energy storage system and Lighting system, smart grid technology.
Souvik Bera
berasouvik@iitgn.ac.in
MTech: Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Research Interests: Demand Side Management, Microgrid Operation and Control, Application of ANN and Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Microgrids.
Divya Sharma
sharmadivya@iitgn.ac.in
MTech: Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
Research Interests: Grid integration of RES, Electricity Markets, Energy Management, Blockchain Technology, and Multi-Agent Systems.
Alumni
PhD Students
Dr. Rishabh Abhinav
(Senior Power Systems Consultant
PSE2 Consulting, Bristol, UK)
Thesis – Grid-Integration of Large-Scale Wind Power Generation with Battery Energy Storage System, April 2021
Dr. P. Bala Sai Kiran
(Software Engineering Specialist at GE Digital, Hydrabad)
Thesis – Development of Energy Management Frameworks for DER Integration in Distribution Networks, February 2021
Dr. Batchu Rajasekhar
(Digital Solution Applications (DSA) Power System and Controls Modeler at GE, Hydrabad)
Thesis – Distributed Demand Response in Smart Grid: A Game-Theoretic and Machine Learning Approach, June 2020
Dr. Kalpesh A. Joshi
(Power Systems Engineer, Powertech Labs Inc, British Columbia, Canada
Thesis – Analysis and Optimization of Distribution Networks with PV Generation and Battery Energy Storage System, Dec 2016
MTech Students
Jainendra Jain
(Joined CDAC)
Thesis – Blockchain-based Network Aware Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Framework, 2021
Devesh Kumar
(Joined TCS)
Thesis – Energy Management Platform for Cooling System: Case Studies, 2021
Satish Kumar Singh
(Joined Enphase Energy)
Thesis- Energy Management Framework in Active Distribution Network, 2021
Priyanka Sharma
(Joined Marvell Semiconductor)
Thesis- Multiobjective Optimization based
Automated Demand Response
Model in Smart Distribution Grid, 2021
Thesis – Peer to Peer Energy Trading Platform: Hardware and Software Integration, 2020 [Received the POSOCO Power System Award-2021]
Thesis – Optimal Operation of Grid-Tied Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage System: A Case Study, 2019
Thesis- Fault Management Scheme for DC Microgrid, 2019
(pursuing PhD at IISc Bangalore)
Thesis- Comparative Study of Forecast Models for Very Short-Term Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Forecasting, 2018
(pursuing PhD at Kansas State University, USA)
Thesis- Analysis of Distribution Network with Solar PV and Electric Vehicle Integration, 2018
(pursuing PhD at Kansas State University, USA)
Thesis- Adaptive Droop Control Strategy using Fuzzy Logic in DC Microgrid, 2018
(pursuing PhD at Kansas State University, USA)
Thesis- Energy Management of AC Microgrid: Deterministic and Stochastic Framework, 2018
Thesis- Impact assessment of distributed solar PV integration in Low voltage unbalanced distribution network: A case study, 2018
Thesis- Simulation and experimental study of bidirectional AC-DC converter for hybrid microgrid application, 2016
Thesis- Harmonics assessment of domestic and commercial loads and evaluation of control techniques for shunt active power filter, 2016
[Received the Director’s Gold Medal in MTech Electrical Engineering (2016).
Thesis- Demand Response Algorithm Incorporating Electricity Market Prices for Residential Energy Management, 2014
Thesis- A Novel Active Anti-Islanding Protection Scheme for Grid-Interactive Roof-Top Solar PV Systems, 2014
(Joined Hitachi-ABB Power Grid)
Thesis- Finite Control Set MPC based Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator (DSTATCOM) for Load Compensation, 2014
Thesis- Power Flow Management in Hybrid AC-DC Microgrid using Master-Slave Control Technique, 2014
Thesis – Outage Management System for Power Distribution System, 2014