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Biosketch
- Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India [March 2023 - present]
- Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India between December 2022 and March 2023.
- Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N), Singapore between September 2020 and December 2022.
- Post-doctoral Research Fellow at SembCorp-NUS Corporate Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore between April 2019 and August 2020.
- Doctorate of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore, Singapore [Ph.D defense: March 2019].
- Research Engineer in Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore between October 2013 and December 2014.
- Master of Science (by Research) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India [awarded in July 2013].
- Batchlor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India [awarded in July 2010].
- Research
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Teaching
EE5628 - Grid-connected Photovoltaic Systems
EE3509 - Introduction to Power Electronics
EE5514 - Renewable Energy Systems
EE5103 - Power Converters Design Laboratory
EE5021 - Power Converter Analysis and Design
EE4170 - Power Systems and Renewable Energy Laboratory
EE3170 - Electrical Machines Laboratory
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Research Group
Ph.D Scholars:
1. Miss. Theertha P A (Research Topic: Switching Loss Models for Wide-bandgap Devices)
2. Miss. Anju James (Research Topic: Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control of Transformer-less Photovoltaic Inverters)
3. Mr. Amal Vinod (Research Topic: High Power Density AC-DC Converters for Electric Vehicle Applications)
M.S Students:
1. Miss. Arthy K (Research Topic: Highly Efficient and Power Dense DC-DC Converter for Mild-Hybrid Electric Vehicles)
2. Mr. Shubham Naryani (Research Topic: Matrix-based AC-DC Converter for Electric Vehicle Charging Applications)
Project Staff:
1. Mr. Nithin Francis
2. Mr. Arun A I
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Additional Information
TitleOUTREACHDescription
- Delivered a tutorial on “Solid State Transformers (SSTs) for Future Power Grids: Design and Control Challenges” in National Power Electronic Conference (NPEC) 2023 along with Dr. Sriram Vaisambhayana, IEEE Member and Dr. Sanjib Kumar Panda, IEEE Fellow, held at IIT Guwahati.
- Delivered a tutorial on “Modular Multilevel Power Converters for Medium Voltage Grid Applications” in 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) - IECON 2023 along with Prof. Josep Pou, IEEE Fellow, Dr. Glen Ghias Farivar, IEEE SM and Dr. Ezequel Ramos, IEEE Member.
- Delivered a tutorial on “Emerging and Disruptive Applications of Solid-State Transformers” in in 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) - IECON 2023 along with Dr. Jaydeep Saha, IEEE Member, Dr. Harish S. Krishnamoorthy, IEEE SM and Dr. Sanjib Kumar Panda, IEEE Fellow.
- Delivered a tutorial on “Modular Multilevel Power Converters for Medium Voltage Grid Applications” in IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference, SPEC 2022 along with Prof. Josep Pou, IEEE Fellow and Dr. Glen Ghias Farivar, IEEE SM.
- Delivered a tutorial on “Solid State Transformers (SSTs): A Potential Game Changer for Future Power Distribution Grids” in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (IEEE PEDES 2022) along with Dr. Jaydeep Saha, IEEE Member, Dr. Sriram Vaisambhayana, IEEE Member and Dr. Sanjib Kumar Panda, IEEE Fellow.
- Organizing Chair for the special session titled “Fault identification and fault-tolerant control schemes for multi-modular power converter systems” in IEEE IECON 2021, Singapore.
- Organizing Chair for the special session titled “Multilevel Converters: Topologies, Control and Protection” in IEEE ECCE-Asia 2021, Singapore.
- Served as publication co-chair for 12th International Conference on Electrical and Electromechanical Energy Conversion – ECCE Asia (Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition – Asia, 2021) held in Singapore between May 24-27, 2021.
- Guest lecturer for Power Electronics activity-based learning module (TEE3501) during semester-II AY2019/2020 and semester-II AY2020/2021 at NUS, carried out 20% of the teaching duty and taught magnetics for power electronics.
- Delivered a tutorial on “Modular Multilevel Power Converters for Medium Voltage Grid Applications” in IEEE ECCE-Asia 2021 along with Prof. Josep Pou, IEEE Fellow and Dr. Glen Ghias Farivar, IEEE SM.
- Delivered an expert lecture on Power Electronic Applications in Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage in TEQIP-III sponsored faculty development program organized by National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, on 25th to 29th January 2021.
TitleAwards and RecognitionDescription- Second price for the co-authored paper titled “A Comparison of PI-Based and Sorting-Based State of Charge Balancing Methods in Cascaded H-Bridge Converters" at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (IEEE ECCE 2022) held on 09 - 13 Oct 2022 in Detroit, Michigan, USA (Virtual Conference).
- Best paper award for the co-authored paper titled “Modulation of Direct Matrix-Based Dual-Active-Bridge (MB-DAB) AC-DC Converters" at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition - Asia (IEEE ECCE-Asia 2021) held on 24 - 27 May 2021 in Singapore (Virtual Conference).
- Participated in IEEE’s Empower a Billion Lives (EBL) as a member of POWER@NUS team from National University of Singapore, Singapore. The team has won the best student team award for south asia regional round at IEEE PEDES 2018 and got shortlisted for global round.
- Received three travel fellowships from IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE Singapore PELS/IAS Student chapter between 2015 and 2020.
- Participated in SHELL Eco-Marathon challenge held in Singapore in 2016 as a part of electrical team from National University of Singapore, Singapore. The team has designed and developed an electric vehicle prototype from the scratch and was qualified for the final round along with few global teams.
TitleProjectsDescription- Project Title: Compact and Efficient GaN-based Battery Pre-heater Module for Operations in Subzero Climatic Conditions [Funding Organization: IPTIF-IMPACT, Status: Ongoing]
- Project Title: High Power Density and High Efficiency Isolated dc-dc Converter for Mild-Hybrid Electric Vehicles [Funding Organization: IITPKD-ERG, Status: Ongoing]
