Short Biography

I am a Research student at Electrical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGn) under Prof. Naran Pindoriya since July 2013 .

My previous employments include: Visiting Researcher at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) for one year under Prof. Yuen Chau (From January 2016 - August 2016, and April-October 2017).

I received my B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College (SVEC) in 2011, and my M.Tech. degree in Power Systems from National Institute of Technology of Hamirpur (NITH) in 2013. I am a student member of IEEE.

Achievements and Awards

IEEE PES Student Travel Grant Award and IEEE PES Conference Support Grant for IEEE Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) - Asia 2015.

Research Interests

• Optimization theory and applications to Smart Grid issues
• Demand Side Management
• Renewable energy and electric vehicle
• Data-driven modeling and control
• Game theory

Publications

Book Chapter

1. B. Rajasekhar and Naran M. Pindoriya,"Residential Demand Response Algorithms: State-of-the Art, Key Issues and Challenges", in Wireless and Satellite Systems, vol. 154, no. 1, Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 18-32. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1
2. B. Rajasekhar, Naran M. Pindoriya and Kalpesh A. Joshi,"Renewable energy integration for smart home energy management systems,in The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Processes, Technologies and Challenges, Taylor and Francis, 2015, ISBN 9781138746077 - CAT# K32454

Journal Article

1. Batchu Rajasekhar, Naran M. Pindoriya, Wayes Tushar, and Chau Yuen, “Collaborative Energy Management for a Residential Community: A Non-Cooperative and Evolutionary Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (In press), July 2018.

Conference Proceedings

1. B. Rajasekhar and Naran M. Pindoriya,"Multi-Stage Scheduling for a Smart Home with Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage A Case Study", in Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), 2015 IEEE , Bangkok, Nov. 4-6, 2015 .
2. B. Rajasekhar and Naran M. Pindoriya,"Decentralized energy management for a group of heterogenous residential customers", in Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), 2015 IEEE , Bangkok, Nov. 4-6, 2015.
3. B. Rajasekhar and Naran M. Pindoriya,"Optimal Energy Scheduling for a Smart Home Integrated with Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage" Proc. of the International conference and exhibition on smart grids and smart cities at India Smart Grid Week (ISGW) 2015.
4. A. G. Nair and B. Rajasekhar, "Demand response algorithm incorporating electricity market prices for residential energy management", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for the Smart Grid - SE4SG 2014, 2014, pp. 914. doi:10.1145/2593845.2593847
5. B. Rajasekhar and A. K. Chandel, "Joint placement of phasor and power flow measurements for power system observability using di erential evolution", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Power, Energy and Control (ICPEC), 2013, pp. 489494. doi:10.1109/ICPEC.2013.6527706
6. B. Rajasekhar, B. Vedik and A. K. Chandel, "Di erential evolution based optimal PMU placement for fault observability of power system," in Proc. of 2013 International Students Conference on Engineering and systems (SCES), 2013, pp. 489494. doi: 10.1109/SCES.2013.6547514