Profile:

Yashasvi bansal received her B.Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand in 2012 and placed in the first division with honors. She completed her M.E. in Power Systems from Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab in 2014. She was awarded the University Medal for securing the highest CGPA in the post-graduate program. She is currently pursuing Ph.D degree at Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar under the supervision of Dr. Ranjana Sodhi. Her research interests include synchrophasor technology and its applications, power system optimization, micro-grid, power system protection and reliability. 

Academic Experience: 

Teaching Assistantship, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar

July 2016 to Dec 2016: GEL104-Principles of Electrical Engineering Lab.

Jan 2017 to May 2017: GEL104-Principles of Electrical Engineering Lab.

July 2017 to Dec 2017: GE104-General Electrical Tutorial.

Jan 2018 to May 2018: Electromechanics Lab.

July 2018 to Dec 2018: EE513-Simulation and Analysis of Modern Power Systems.

Jan 2019 to May 2019: RTDS Lab Development, SYMAR Lab.

July 2019 to Nov 2019: EE513-Simulation and Analysis of Modern Power Systems.

Jan 2020 to May 2020: EE309-Power Systems 

July 2020 to Dec 2020: EE513-Simulation and Analysis of Modern Power System (Online)

Work Experience:

July 2014 to Dec 2014:   Lecturer in the Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab,                                               India.

July 2015 to May 2016:   Assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of                                                      Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

1. Yashasvi Bansal, M Venkateswara Reddy and Ranjana Sodhi, "An Open Loop Frequency Estimator for Adversely Distorted Signals Encompassing Interharmonics," Electric Power Components and systems, vol.47, Issue 13, pp. 1218-1229, 2019.

2. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi, "PMUs Enabled Tellegen's Theorem-Based Fault Identification Method for Unbalanced Active Distribution Network Using RTDS," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 4567-4578, Sept. 2020.

3. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi, "A Half-Cycle Fast Discrete Orthonormal S-Transform-Based Protection-Class μPMU," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 6934-6945, Sept. 2020.

4. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi,"A Novel µPMUs Assisted Loss-of-Mains Detection Technique for Active Distribution Systems", Electric Power System Research (Accepted Sep 2021)

5. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi,"A Statistical Features based generic Passive Islanding Detection scheme for IIDGs", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (Accepted Oct 2021)

6. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi, "A Novel Frequency Estimator for Protection Applications in Active Distribution Networks, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications (Accepted March 2022)

7. Yashasvi Bansal, Ranjana Sodhi, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Ankush Sharma, "A Novel Two-Stage Partitioning based Reconfiguration Method for Active Distribution Network", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (Accepted July 2023)

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:

8. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi, "Microgrid Fault Detection Methods: Reviews, Issues And Future Trends",  2018 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Singapore, 2018, pp. 401-406. 

9. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi,"An Adaptive IIR Notch Filter based Half-Cycle P-Class Phasor Measurement Estimation Scheme" 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 20-22 Dec 2019, Jaipur, India (Best Paper Award)

10. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi,"Adapting Tellegen's Theorem for Synchrophasor-Assisted Fault Identification in Active Distribution Networks - An Illustration" 21st National Power System Conference (NPSC 2020), IIT Gandhinagar Dec 2020

11. Yashasvi Bansal and Ranjana Sodhi,"A Novel Frequency Estimator for Protection Applications in Active Distribution Systems " 21st National Power System Conference (NPSC 2020), IIT Gandhinagar Dec 2020 

Defended her thesis successfully on 25th September 2021