Profile:

Shitikantha Dash has completed his B.Tech and M.Tech from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, India in 2013 and 2016 respectively. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in the Electrical Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, India under the supervision of Dr. Ranjana Sodhi and Dr. Balwinder Sodhi.

His research interests include demand response analysis, smart metering, power grid security, cloud computing applications, Internet of Things and applications of artificial intelligence.

Work Experience:

• Jan 2017 - May 2017: Teaching Assistant - Principles of Electrical Engineering (GEL-104) Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar. 

• Jul 2017 - Nov 2017: Teaching Assistant - Principles of Electrical Engineering (GE-104) Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar. 

• Jan 2018 - May 2018: Teaching Assistant - Electromechanical Lab (EEP-203), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar. 

• Jul 2018 - Nov 2018: Teaching Assistant - General Electrical Tutorial (GE-104), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar. 

• Jan 2019 - May 2019: Teaching Assistant - General Electrical Tutorial (GE-104), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar. 

• Jul 2019 - Nov 2019: Teaching Assistant - Simulation and Analysis of Modern Power Systems Lab (EE-513) , Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar.

Publications:

1. Shitikantha Dash, Ranjana Sodhi and Balwinder Sodhi,"A smart Demand Response Management Scheme for Direct Load Control in Residential Grid" 20th National Power System Conference (NPSC 2018). 

2. Shitikantha Dash, Ranjana Sodhi and Balwinder Sodhi,"A Novel Instrumentation Approach for Clustered Appliance Load Monitoring," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (Accepted)

3. Shitikantha Dash, Kandarp Gandhi, Ranjana Sodhi, An Automatic State Detection Algorithm for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring, IEEE 15th INDICON 2019, 13-15 Dec 2019, Ranjkot. (Accepted)

4. Shitikantha Dash, Ranjana Sodhi and Balwinder Sodhi,"A Semi-Intrusive Load Monitoring Approach for Demand Response Applications" 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 20-22 Dec 2019, Jaipur, India (Accepted)

5. Shitikantha Dash, Ranjana Sodhi and Balwinder Sodhi,"An Appliance Load Disaggregation Scheme Using Automatic State Detection Enabled Enhanced Integer-Programming," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (Accepted)

6. Shitikantha Dash, Ranjana Sodhi, and Balwinder Sodhi "A Serverless Cloud Computing Framework for Realtime Appliance Usage Recommendation " 21st National Power System Conference (NPSC 2020), IIT Gandhinagar Dec 2020 (Accepted)

7. Shitikantha Dash, Ranjana Sodhi and Balwinder Sodhi,"A Bi-Layer Clustered Priority Driven Energy Management Model for Inclining Block Rate Tariff Environment" in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (Accepted Sep 2021) 

8. Shitikantha Dash, Ranjana Sodhi and Balwinder Sodhi,"Community Pool Model for Active-Hour Appliance Management: A Multi-Round ADMM Approach", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids (Accepted Aug 2022)

Patents:

• 1. Shitikantha Dash, Ranjana Sodhi and Balwinder Sodhi, A Method and a System for Load Monitoring, Indian Patent, Filed on: 18-03-2020