Work Experience:

1. Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, 221005, UP, India (Dec 2023 - Present)

2. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington State University, Pullman, 99163, WA, USA (Oct 2022 - Dec 2023)

3. Research Associate in Indo-US UI-ASSIST Project, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 247667, UK, India (Oct 2021 - Sept 2022)

4. Associate  Fellow, Renewable Energy Technologies (RET) Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India (Apr 2021 -  Sept 2021) 

Educational Qualification:

1. Ph.D. : Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, July 2016 - November 2021 (GIPSA 2024 winner)

Thesis Title: Residential Area Energy Management Using Demand Regulation and Storage Devices

Supervisor: Dr. Narayana Prasad Padhy

2. Master of Engineering (ME): Electrical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, August 2014 - June 2016 (Gold Medalist)

Thesis Title: Load Scheduling Algorithm by Using Time of Use and Real-Time Pricing Methods to Minimize Peak Load and Electricity Cost

Supervisors: Dr. Swapan Kumar Goswami, and Madhumita Mandal

3. Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech): West Bengal University of Technology, July 2009 - May 2013

Honors/Awards/Fellowships:

1. Received "Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PMECRG) 2025" by Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), DST

2. Received "Grid India Power System Award 2024 (GIPSA-24)" under the Doctoral category for outstanding work 

3. Received "Best Paper award" at 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy, and Control (STPEC 2023), KIIT Bhubaneswar, India 

4. Received "Best Paper award" at 2022 IEEE VLSI Device Circuit and System (VLSI DCS), Kolkata, India 

5. Received "Best Paper award" for the session Distribution System Analysis (DSA) at the 2019 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS 2019), Jaipur, India 

6. Received "University Gold Medal" for standing first in order of merit in 2016 at the Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2016

Professional, Research, and Outreach Activities:

Memberships

1. Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA

2. Member of the Institute of Engineers (IE), India

Reviewer

1. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

2. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

3. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

4. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

5. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

6. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

7. IEEE Internet of Things Journal

8. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution

9. Electric Power Components and Systems (Taylor and Francis)

10. Energy (Elsevier)

11. Electrical Engineering (Springer)

12. IEEE PESGM 2017-2024 and other national/international conferences

Outreach Activities

1. Publicity Committee member at 11th IEEE Power India International Conference (PIICON-2024), Dec. 12-12, 2024, MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 

2. Technical Program Committee member at 2024 21st Control Instrumentation Systems Conference (CISCON 2024), IEEE, Aug. 02-03, 2024, Manipal, Karnataka, India 

3. Technical Program Co-chair at 5th Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference (EPREC-2024), May 24-26, 2024, NIT Jamshedpur, India 

4. Technical Program Committee member at 2023 8th International Conference on Energy System, Electricity and Power (ESEP 2023), Nov. 17-19, 2023, Changchun, China 

Invited Talks/Keynotes/Tutorials

1. Invited talk at Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India on January 21, 2020. Topic: Insight to Modern Power Systems: Benefits and Challenges 

2. One Day Tutorial on "Home Energy Management System: An IoT Based Framework" organized by MSIT IEEE SPS SBC under IEEE Signal Processing Society Member Driven Initiative 2021 at Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India on May 22, 2021. Topic: Soft Computing Application in Home Energy Management System (HEMS) 

3. One Week Online Faculty Development Program on "Resilient Integrated Systems with Energy Produced by Optimized Widespread Energy Renewables" (RISE-POWER) 2024 at National Institute of Technology Patna, India on July 25, 2024. Topic: Optimal Power Flow Analysis of Renewable Penetrated Distribution Network: Modeling, Method, and Communication Resiliency