Dr. H S V S Kumar Nunna is an Assistant Professor in the school of engineering at the Nazarbayev University (NU) from September 2017, where he teaches and conducts research in Power and Energy systems as a faculty member of the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Before joining NU, he was with the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Green Energy Management and Smartgrids from January 2015 to June 2017, and with Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai from July 2014 to January 2015 as a Research Associate in the department of Energy Science and Engineering.

Dr. Kumar received the bachelors (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH), in 2007, Masters degree (M.Tech) in Industrial Power and Automation (formerly know as Computer Controlled Industrial Power) from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India in 2010 and Ph.D. degree in Power and Energy Systems from IIT Bombay, India in December, 2014.

Complete CV is available here (Updated on 01/10/2019)

Achievements and Awards

• Award for Excellence in Thesis Work from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay for the research contribution made during the doctoral work. Aug. 2015

• Best Research Poster Award for the work titled “Agent based Demand Side Management Framework for Smart Distribution Systems with Multiple Microgrids” presented at 1st IITB-NUS Joint Research Workshop (Energy 2014). Feb. 2014.

• Travel Award from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for attending IECON 2013 in Vienna, Austria Nov. 2013

• Full Scholarship for PhD from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India