Research Project Staffs
Dr. Shivashankar Sukumar (Postdoc Fellow)
PhD: University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 2017
Research Interests: Demand response and active customers, Data-driven AC load modeling and control, Optimization theory and applications to smart grid issues.
Dr. Snehaprava Swain (Research Associate)
PhD: National Institute of Technology Rourkela, 2019
Research Interests: Implication of Internet of Things and Digital twin in Smart Grid applications, Reliability assessment of power system, Fault Ride Through Capability Enhancement of the grid integrated Wind Energy System, Power Quality
Joice G Philip (Research Associate)
PhD: Indian Institute of Technology Indore (Thesis submitted)
Research Interests: Oscillation monitoring in power system, Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) based Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS), Power system stability, Smart Grid
Ravindra B. Kuhada (JRF)
MTech: L. E. College Morbi, GTU
Research Interests: Grid Integration of Renewable Energy, Power electronic interface for non conventional sources, Coordination and control of Smart Grid, Power Quality, Solar powered electric vehicle.
Vishal M. Kachhad (JRF)
MTech: Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat
Research Interests: Power system protection, HVDC, Transient stability analysis, micro grid, Energy monitoring and management, Distribution system
PhD Scholars
Batchu Raja Sekhar
MTech: National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, 2013
Research Interests: Demand response and active customers, Data-driven AC load modeling and control, Optimization theory and applications to smart grid issues.
Rishabh Abhinav
MTech: Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
Research Interests: Short-term wind power forecasting, Grid integration of wind energy and battery energy storage system, Wind energy trading in Indian electricity market
P Bala Sai Kiran
MTech: Indian Institute of Technology Hydrabad
Research Interests: Demand side management, electricity markets, and restructured power system issues.
Poornachandratejasvi Laxman Bhattar
pooranchandra.tejasi@iitgn.ac.in
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: Impacts of EV on grid, Microgrid Control, Applications of power electronics.
MTech Students
Anandsingh Chauhan
anandsingh.chauhan@iitgn.ac.in
BTech: L D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Research Interests: Power Electronics Converter Design and Smart Charging of Solar Powered EV, Vehicle to Grid (V2G) Operation of EV, Peer to Peer Energy Trading.
Alumni
PhD Student
- Dr. Kalpesh A. Joshi (Post-doctoral Researcher at University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Thesis – Analysis and Optimization of Distribution Networks with Photovoltaic Generation and Battery Energy Storage System, 2016
MTech Students
- Sachinkumar B Suthar (pursuing PhD at IIT Gandhinagar)
Thesis- Optimal Operation of Grid-Tied Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage System: A Case Study, 2019 - Payal V Dahiwale (working as Chief Technical Officer (CTO), TCS Research & Innovation, Pune)
Thesis- Fault Management Scheme for DC Microgrid, 2019 - Vishal Kushwaha (pursuing PhD at IISC Bangalore)
Thesis- Comparative Study of Forecast Models for Very Short-Term Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Forecasting, 2018
- Sachinkumar B Suthar (pursuing PhD at IIT Gandhinagar)
- Biswajeet Rout (working as a Field Application Engineer at OPAL-RT, India)
Thesis- Analysis of Distribution Network with Solar PV and Electric Vehicle Integration, 2018
- Biswajeet Rout (working as a Field Application Engineer at OPAL-RT, India)
- Shweta Dahale (working as Propulsion Control Engineer at Bombardier Transportation India, Vadodara)
Thesis- Adaptive Droop Control Strategy using Fuzzy Logic in DC Microgrid, 2018
- Shweta Dahale (working as Propulsion Control Engineer at Bombardier Transportation India, Vadodara)
- Dhanapala Prudhviraj (working as Post-graduation Engineer Trainee, L&T, Chennai)
Thesis- Energy Management of AC Microgrid: Deterministic and Stochastic Framework, 2018
- Dhanapala Prudhviraj (working as Post-graduation Engineer Trainee, L&T, Chennai)
- Balveer Singh (with Banas Dairy, Gujarat)
Thesis- Impact assessment of distributed solar PV integration in Low voltage unbalanced distribution network: A case study, 2018
- Balveer Singh (with Banas Dairy, Gujarat)
- G. Rakesh (Scientific Officer – C at Kudankulam Nuclear power project, NPCIL, India)
Thesis- Simulation and experimental study of bidirectional AC-DC converter for hybrid microgrid application, 2016
- G. Rakesh (Scientific Officer – C at Kudankulam Nuclear power project, NPCIL, India)
- Puchalapalli Sambasivaiah (pursuing PhD at IIT Delhi)
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)].
- Puchalapalli Sambasivaiah (pursuing PhD at IIT Delhi)
- Arun Nair (project engineer at Al Mostajed Technologies Co. LLC, UAE)
Thesis- Demand Response Algorithm Incorporating Electricity Market Prices for Residential Energy Management, 2014
- Arun Nair (project engineer at Al Mostajed Technologies Co. LLC, UAE)
- Rohith Varier (Senior Executive Engineer at Siemens, Mumbai)
Thesis- A Novel Active Anti-Islanding Protection Scheme for Grid-Interactive Roof-Top Solar PV Systems, 2014
- Rohith Varier (Senior Executive Engineer at Siemens, Mumbai)
- Sreejith R. (pursuing PhD at IIT Delhi)
Thesis- Finite Control Set MPC based Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator (DSTATCOM) for Load Compensation, 2014
- Sreejith R. (pursuing PhD at IIT Delhi)
- Rahul Anand Kaushik (Engineer, Asset Management at Powergrid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), India)
Thesis- Power Flow Management in Hybrid AC-DC Microgrid using Master-Slave Control Technique, 2014
- Rahul Anand Kaushik (Engineer, Asset Management at Powergrid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), India)
- Gaurav Kumar (Assistant Electrical Engineer, North Bihar power distribution company)
Thesis – Outage Management System for Power Distribution System, 2014
- Gaurav Kumar (Assistant Electrical Engineer, North Bihar power distribution company)
- Sherry Jain
Thesis – Least Distance Predictor Model for Short Term Load Forecasting, 2014
- Sherry Jain
BTech Students
- Aparna Tumkur , 2019 (Pursuing MS at Stanford University, USA)
- Tejas Mehta , 2019 (Pursuing MS at Carnegie Mellon University, USA)