Dr. Prathap Reddy B
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol, Indore,
Madhya Pradesh, India, 453552
Dr. B. Prathap Reddy is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore. He has worked as a Power Electronics Hardware Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover India, from Dec 2023 to May 2024, as a DST Inspire Faculty at the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at IISC, Bengaluru from Jul 2021 to Dec 2023 and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Qatar University, Qatar from May 2019 to July 2021. He did his PhD in Power Electronics and Drives from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India in 2019. During his PhD, received the Excellence in Research Award, and Appreciation in Research Awards for the years 2018 and 2019 respectively at IIT Hyderabad, India. He did a research internship at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd, Japan from Dec 2017 to Feb 2018. His research work is recognized in 20+ transactions/ journals, 2 US patents, 2 Indian patents, and 15+ conference proceedings and a few papers are under review.
Area of Research Interests
Design of Magnet-less Machines
Special Machines
Multiphase Machines
Pole Phase Modulated Drives for Gearless / Reduced Footprints of Gear System for a Powertrain Design
Electric Vehicles
Power Electronics and Drives
On-board and Off-board EV Charging Solutions with SiC or GaN Devices
Multilevel Inverters
Battery Active Paralleling/Series
Converter Design and Analysis
For more information Research and Power Electronics and Power System Group IIT Indore
Education
Ph.D Thesis : Analysis and Performance Improvement of Pole Phase Modulated Induction Motor Drives for Traction Applications
Thesis Supervisor : Prof. Sivakumar K, IIT Hyderabad
Experience
Power Electronics Hardware Engineer
Jaguar Land Rover Technology and Business Services, Bengaluru, India
December 2023 to June 2024
DST Inspire Faculty
Department of Electronic System Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
July 2021 to December 2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar
May 2019 to July 2021
Research Scholar and Teaching Assistant
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
July 2016 to May 2019
Internship
Internship
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd, Kanagawa, Japan
Dec 2017 to Feb 2018