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Current Position: 

Professor & Head, Electrical Engineering Department, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri-735102, under Higher Education Dept., W.B.G.S., Govt. of West Bengal, India

Current Administrative Posts: 

• Carrying out the assigned responsibility of Head of Electrical Engineering Department (HOD, EE) since 03-05-2021

• Coordinator of NAAC Committee/ Team in JGEC, showed leadership to prepare SSR, carrying out DVV, Coordinating NAAC Peer Team Visit, and finally completed the task with positive outcome by securing NAAC accreditation to JGEC for the first time.

• State Level Mentor (SLM) of NAAC /NBA Process for Technical/Engineering Colleges in West Bengal - under Directorate of Technical Education, Higher Education Department, Government of West Bengal 

• Coordinator / PI of one completed AICTE Project in Electrical Engineering department

• Director/Coordinator of Internal Quality Assessment Cell (IQAC), JGEC

• Secretary of Faculty Council, JGEC

• Member of different functional bodies such as, Academic Council, Syllabus Committee, Library Committee, MAR Committee, Internship Committee, Anti-Ragging Committee

• Convener of Research Committee and member of Project Evaluation Committee (PEC) of different ongoing projects of AICTE, WBDST in JGEC

• Chairman of Board of Studies, Electrical Engineering Department.

• Expert Member of AICTE SC/EVC and SAC/Re-SAC Committees

• NTA BOARD OBSERVER 

• Carrying out the responsibility of Head of Electrical Engineering

• IEEE Student Branch Counsellor for Student Branch Activities in JGEC

• Mentoring the Students through counseling and helping them to build character, attitude & aptitude to make them fit to cope up with the work-place culture and environment to be faced in near-future.

• Taking active participation in the development, upgradation and modernization activities of laboratories and other teaching-learning facilities in the departmental and also in the institute level

• Active initiatives for Upgrading Central Computing Centre of the institute to make it suitable for conducting national level Computer Based Test (CBT) following the guideline of AICTE and NTA. Taken up the responsibility of Centre Head/ Coordinator and successfully organized JEE(MAINS) 2022 exam in online mode.

• Co-ordinating externally funded research projects. Taking up initiatives to fetch research funds from reputed external funding agencies such as, AICTE, DST etc. to set-up aptly equipped research laboratories in the department.

• Member, District Level Science and Technology Committee, Jalpaiguri, Office of The District Magistrate, Jalpaiguri formed under WBDSTB, 2022

Courses Teaching/ Taught: 

• ​​Power Electronics in UG & PG

• Electric Drives

• Microprocessor & Microcontrollers

• Electrical Machines

• Power Quality Management - in PG.

• Circuit Theory & Networks

• Electromagnetic Field Theory

• Analog Electronics

• Basic Electrical Engineering

• HVDC & FACTS

Work Experiences: 

• March, 2018-till date - Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College under Higher Education Dept., W.B.G.S., Govt. of West Bengal, Professor, Electrical Engineering Department.

• May 2021- till date - Carrying out the responsibility of Head of Electrical Engineering Department, Jalpaiguri Govt. Engg. College

• March, 2015-February, 2018 - Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College under Higher Education Dept., W.B.G.S., Govt. of West Bengal, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department.

• Aug 2012- Feb, 2015 - Carried out the responsibility of Head of Electrical Engineering Department, Haldia Institute of Technology

• Associate Professor, EE Dept.Duration: Aug., 2011 to 2nd March, 2015; Assistant Professor , EE Dept. - Duration: Jan, 2008 to Aug, 2011; Sr. Lecturer in EE Dept.- Duration: July, 2006 to Dec., 2007; Lecturer in EE Dept.- Duration: August 2004 to June 2006; Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, W.B, India

• Lecturer in EE Dept.- Duration: April 2002 to Aug. 2004,  Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, W.B, India

• Software Associate, Duration: July 2001 to March, 2002, HCL Perot Systems, Noida, India

Research 

Research Interests:

• Condition Assessment of Electrical Equipment

• Power Electronics

• Electric Drives

• Power Quality Monitoring

• PLC based motion control

• Applications Signal Processing tools

• AI based Classifier design for Health Monitoring and Fault Detection of Motors 

Publications: - A Few of My Publications (in International Journals/Transactions  only) 

1.  “Resolving anomalies of current signatures owing to stator winding faults and voltage unbalances in induction motor through machine learning”, COMPEL-The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025/4/24. 

2. “Machine learning based stator-winding fault severity detection in induction motors”, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 38, No. 1, April 2025, pp. 182~192,  ISSN: 2502-4752, DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v38.i1.pp182-192

3. “ARPCNNet: A Deep Learning Approach toSense Minor Stator Winding Inter-Turn Fault Severity in Induction Motor under Variable Load Condition”, IEEE Sensor Journal, Vol 23, Issue 4, Feb, 2023

4. “NI Compact RIO-based methodology for online detection of stator winding inter-turn insulation faults in 3-phase induction motors”, Measurement Journal, ELSEVIER, 2021

5. "Estimation of Contamination Level of Overhead Insulators based on Surface Leakage Current employing Detrended Fluctuation Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - Manuscript No. 19-TIE-0914.R2, July 2019

6. " S-Transform aided Random Forest based PD Location Detection employing Signature of Optical Sensor", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Year: 2018, Paper Id: TPWRD-00596-2018.R1, IEEE Journals & Magazines, 2018

7. "Earthing grid designs for heterogeneous soil structures in hilly regions using Current simulation method", IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Volume: 12, Issue: 12, Pages: 3021 - 3027, IET Journals & Magazines, 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-gtd.2017.1404)

8.  "Diagnosis of Power Quality Events based on Detrended Fluctuation Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Volume: 65, Issue: 9. Pages: 7322 - 7331, IEEE Journals & Magazines, 2018. (DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2018.2795559 )

9. "Performance of a load-immune classifier for robust identification of minor faults in induction motor stator winding", IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Year: 2014, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 33 - 44, IEEE Journals & Magazines (DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2013.003549)

10.  "Monitoring of inter-turn insulation failure in induction motor using advanced signal and data processing tools", IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Year: 2011, Volume: 18, Issue: 5, Pages: 1599 – 1608. (DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2011.6032830)

+ 60 more publications in International Journals/ Conferences (IEEE) , National Conferences.

Books Authored:

​1. Co-author of Electrical and Electronics Measurements and Instrumentation, publisher: McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd. ISBN (13) : 978-1-25-902959-2

 Sponsored Projects Undertaken: 

• ​Modernization of Power Electronics & Drives Laboratory in EE Dept., JGEC, AICTE-MODROBS - Modernisation & Removal of Obsolescence, Approved by AICTE, Project ID: 1-3568468831, INR 15.52 Laks Dec., 2019-21

• Application of Advanced Diagnostic Tools for Comprehensive Condition Monitoring and Life Prediction of Electric Motor, EE Dept., Haldia Institute of Technology, as Co-Principal Investigator- Research Project sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, value Rs.38 Lakhs, 2010-2013

 International Conference Attended

• International Conference on ET & TE, HIT, 2007

• IEEE Power Engineering Society General meeting Meeting, USA 2008, 2010

• IEEE CALCON 2011, Kolkata

• IEEE TENCON 2011, Bali, Indonesia

• IEEE ICPEN 2012, NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, India

• IEEE CATCON 2013, JU, Kolkata

Reviewer of International Journals:

[1] IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

[2] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)

[3] IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

[4] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications

[5] IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

[6] IET, Electric Power Applications

[7] IET Science, Measurement & Technology

[8] IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

[9] International Journal of Electric Power and Energy Systems, Elsevier

[10] Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor & Francis

[11] IEEE-IAS Power Systems Engineering Committee ...

Membership:  

• Senior Member of IEEE, USA since 2020, MIEEE since 2005

• Member, Institute of Engineers (India) (MIE)

Mentorship 

Guidance and Support:

As a mentor, Dr. Santanu Das nurtures aspiring engineers, offering guidance, advice, and support to help them navigate their academic and professional journeys with confidence.

•    Number of  M.Tech Projects Supervised : 20

•    Number of PhD Scholars Supervised/Supervising: 4

 Invited Lectures Delivered:

​1.Invited talk in the webinar at GMIT, on “Brief Introduction to Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)”, July 25, 2021

2.Invited talk in the webinar at Asansol Engineering College , on “DFA : A Cutting-Edge Statistical Signal Processing Tool”, 04-06-2021.

3.Resource person in MATLAB Workshop, organized by “TEKTRONS”, a Technical agazine in the EE dept., JGEC, 2022

4. “Invited Talk” in Seminar on “Cutting-Edge Engineering Technologies” at Cooch Behar Government Engineering College, Cooch Behar, West Bengal

5.MATLAB Workshop , HIT, Haldia

6. PSPICE Workshop ,HIT, Haldia

7.Training program on PLC, HDC, Haldia

8.Training program on VFD, HPL, Haldia

9.Training program on VFD, Electro-steel Casting Ltd., Haldia 

Other Activities:

• Honorary Secretary, for the Tenure : 2018-2020, The Institution of Engineers (India), North Bengal Local Centre

• Branch Counselor of the IEEE Student Branch at HIT, Haldia 2012-2014

• Member, District Level Science and Technology Committee, Jalpaiguri, Office of The District Magistrate, Jalpaiguri formed under WBDSTB, 2022

• One of State Level Mentors (SLM) - assigned by DTE, Govt. of West Bengal, - of NAAC accreditation process drive for Degree Engineering Colleges in West Bengal.

​Awards and Honours:

• POSOCO POWER SYSTEM AWARD (PPSA)- A national level award in the Doctoral Research Category, offered by Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. in partnership with Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi, among all IITs, IISc, NITs and govt. universities.  https://grid-india.in/en/announcements/grid-india-power-system-awards

•   GATE Qualified 

•  National Scholarship at Higher Secondary & Secondary levels

Career Development Program/Seminar Attended:

• ​​​​One week Faculty Development Programme on Institutional Development, NITTTR, JGEC, April, 2015

• One week Faculty Development Programme on Contemporary Engineering Practices (CEP 2015), School of Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, Jan 5-11, 2015

• ISTE-AICTE sponsored Matlab Oriented Electrical System Modelling and Real time control at BIT MESRA, DEPT. OF EEE; DEC. 6-18, 2004.

• VLSI Education Workshop, NIST, Berhampur, of one week duration, 2008.

• Participant of Work shop on PLC, HIT, Haldia, 2008

• WIPRO MISSION 10X high impact teaching course, duration - one week, 2011

ORCID ID: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7870-0299