Profile:

Motakatla Venkateswara Reddy received his Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE) from the SBTET, Andhra Pradesh, India in 2006; B.Tech. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderbad, India in 2009; M.Tech degree in Power Electronics & Drives from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India in 2013, and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering Dept. under the supervision of Dr Ranjana Sodhi at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Panjab, India.

His research interests are Power Quality issues in microgrid, signal processing applications to power system, application of pattern recognition algorithms to power system, power electronics converter applications to microgrid, and power management strategies in microgrid. 

Work Experience:

1)   2009-2011: Lecturer in electrical engineering dept., LBRCE, Mylavaram.

2)   2013-2014: Assistant Professor in electrical engineering dept., LBRCE, Mylavaram.

3)   2014-2018: Teaching Assistant for Basic electrical engineering lab, Electrical Machines lab, Power Electronics Tutorials, and Simulation of Modern Power Systems in IIT Ropar.

4) Nov. 2018 - Feb 2020: Post-Doc Fellow at IIT Ropar

Research Work:

The PhD research work of M V Reddy is around Power Quality (PQ) identification and enhancement in microgrid including the following objectives.

1)   PQ identification and classification 

2)    Grid synchronization methods

3)    Islanding detection of microgrid, power management and harmonic load sharing problems in islanded microgrid. 

4)    Multifunctional capability of inverters in microgrid in view of PQ enhancement. 

5)   Role of energy storage elements on PQ enhancement in microgrid.

Publications:

M.Tech:

1) Y. Obulesu, M. Venkateswara Reddy, and Y. Kusumalatha, "A % THD analysis of industrial power distribution systems with active power filter – case studies", Int. J. Electr. Power Energy Syst. 60 (0) (2014) 107–120.

PhD:

2)  Motakatla Venkateswara Reddy and Sodhi, R.,"A rule-based S-Transform and AdaBoost based approach for power quality assessment", Electr. Power Syst. Res., 2016, 134, pp. 66–79.

3)   Motakatla Venkateswara Reddy, Sodhi, R., ‘A Robust Frequency Estimator for Single-Phase Microgrid Applications’, IEEE General Meeting 2017, Chicago , IL, USA.

4) M Venkateswara Reddy and Ranjana Sodhi, A Modified S-Transform and Random Forests based Power Quality Assessment Framework, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, Vol. 67, No.1, pp.78-89, 2018 

5) Kapil Chauhan, M Venkateswara Reddy and Ranjana Sodhi, " A Novel Distribution-level PMU using Empirical Wavelet Transform", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Accepted).

6) Kapil Chauhan, M Venkateswara Reddy and Ranjana Sodhi, A Novel Frequency Estimator for Adversely Distorted Grid Signals," 21st Symposium on Industrial Electronics (INDEL 2018), Nov. 2018. (Accepted)

7) Yashasvi Bansal, M Venkateswara Reddy and Ranjana Sodhi,An Open Loop Frequency Estimator for Adversely Distorted Signals Encompassing Interharmonics," Electric Power Components and systems, Taylor and Francis. (Accepted)

8) M Venkateswara Reddy and Ranjana Sodhi, ”An Open Loop Fundamental and Harmonic Phasor Estimator for Single-Phase Voltage Signals”, in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (Accepted)

9) M Venkateswara Reddy and Ranjana Sodhi,”A Novel Power Quality Enhancement Strategy for Single Phase Islanded Microgrid”, IEEE PES General Meeting 2020, Montreal, Aug 2020 (Accepted)

10) M Venkateswara Reddy, Sourav De and Ranjana Sodhi,"A Data Driven Passive Islanding Detection Scheme," 10th Power India International Conference (PIICON) 2022