Teaching/Research Experience

VJTI, Mumbai University, India (Oct 1998 - Till date)

Assist. Prof, EED

VJTI, Mumbai University, India (May 2023 - Jun 2025)

Head, Electrical Engineering Dept

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, CA, USA. (Oct 2022-23)

Visiting Scientist - SW

Tufts University, Boston, USA (Mar 2015 - Aug 2016)

Visiting Research Faculty

Energy System Centre, The School of EECE, The University of Western Australia, WA, Australia (Feb 2011 –Dec 2011)

Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant Lab Demonstrator

TAFE Challenger, Fremantle, WA, Australia (Feb 2010 –Dec 2010)

Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

VJTI, Mumbai University, India (Oct 1998 – Oct 2007)

Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

SPCE, Mumbai University, India (Feb 1998 –Oct 1998)

Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

Postdoctoral (2015)

Tufts University, Boston, USA

Research Topic: Dynamic-phasor based controller design for Solid-State Transformer

Ph. D. Electrical Engineering (2007-2012)

The University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, Australia

Ph.D. Thesis : Robust WAM-based Controller Coordination of FACTS Devices for Power System Transient Stability Enhancement

M. E. Electrical Engineering - Power systems (2003)

Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai, India

Thesis : Power system analysis for a petrochemical plant

B. E. Electrical Engineering (1997)

Walchand Engineering College, Sangli, India

Industry Experience

Crompton Greaves Machine Division-1:

Induction Motor Unit at Worli, Mumbai, India (July 1990 to Jan 1991)

Job Profile: In-plant Trainee Engineer in Quality Assurance Department of Induction motor testing unit

Research Centre and Lab development at EED, VJTI, Mumbai

Electrical: Modelling, Computation, and Control (E-MC^2) Lab

A lab stemming from CDRC to focus more on most advance research area of Machine Learning and artificial intelligence applications to most complex and hybird system.

Control and Decision Research Center (CDRC)

The research centre is involved in various international collaboration which resulted in reputed publications.

Actual-Virtual Machines Lab (AVMC)

All Machines lab experiments for UG/PG or anyone interested in Electrical Machines

Power News Letters Collection

The fortnightly published News Letters about the news and daily happening in Power Sector (India and international) compiled and published by Mr. Vijay Sonavne to reach student community easily.