Services and Leadership
Services at IITG
Member of EEE Department faculty Search Committee, 2025-
Chair of the EEE Department Infrastructure Management Committee: From April 2024
Member of Library Advisory Committee: May 2021 to April 2025
Faculty Coordinator for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with University of Malaya, Malaysia
Faculty advisor, B. Tech. (EEE) 2019-23 batch
Power engineering group PhD Admission coordinator for Dec. 2021, July 2023
Member of Departmental Undergraduate Programme Committee (DUPC): March 2020 to March 2022
Department PhD Admission coordinator for Dec. 2018
Served as Marshall for B.Tech, EEE students during the Convocation of IITG - June 2018
Member of Department Postgraduate Programme Committee (DPPC): Jan. 2018 to Jan. 2020
Served as Marshall for M.Tech EEE students during the Convocation of IITG - June 2016
Associate Co-ordinator for EE102 (Basic Electronics laboratory): Jan. - May 2016
Professional Membership
Energy Cluster delegate for IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2025-2026.
Chair, IEEE Guwahati Sub-section, 2024-
Advisor of IEEE IES Student Branch Chapter at IIT Guwahati, 2024-
Chair, IEEE IES Technical Committee on Renewable Energy Sources, 2023-2026
Founding Chair, IEEE Power Electronics Society Chapter - Guwahati, 2022
Founding Chair, IEEE Guwahati Sub-section, 2021
Secretary of the Technical Committee of Renewable Energy Systems of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2019-2022
IEEE Senior member since 2019
Journal Editorial Experience
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics from Aug. 2025
Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal from Oct. 2021
Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics from Jan. 2021
Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society (OJIES) from Dec. 2020
Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal from August 2019
Conference Organization Experience
General Chair of the 12th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES 2026).
General Chair of the IEEE Guwahati Subsection flagship conference IEEE GCON 2026.
General Chair of the IEEE Guwahati Subsection flagship conference IEEE GCON 2025.
Organizing Chair of 11th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC 2023) held at IIT Guwahati.
Short Term Course
One day symposium Power Quality Issues in Electric Grid and Mitigation Techniques held on 19th Dec. 2018
One day symposium Power Electronics for Sustainable Energy Resources held on 20th Dec. 2018
Awards and Honors
Former Ph.D. student Dwijasish Das, received Grid India Power System Award (GIPSA) 2024
Paper titled "Smart Transformer Enabled Triple-Active Bridge Converter for Modern Data Centres" received "Dr. Ramamoorthy best paper award in power electronics & drives" in 22nd National Power System Conference (NPSC) 2022 held at IIT Delhi
Proposal of Anandh N and Somnath Meikap reached the final of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2022.
PhD Student Sahil Gaurav received The Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) in April, 2022
Phd Students Somnath Meikap and Lakshmi Kant Rao visited Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria for one month in 2022
Former Ph.D. student Hrishikesan VM, received Power System Operation Cooperation Ltd. (POSOCO) Power Systems Award (PPSA) 2022
Ph.D. student Dwijasish Das, received the prestigious Intel India Research Fellowship 2021
Humboldt Fellowship for Renewed Research stay by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, May-July 2022
Awarded Deity India Young Faculty Research Fellowship in year 2018
Wrote successful application for VAJRA (Visiting Advanced Joint Research) Faculty Scheme in year 2017
Awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in year 2016
Received "POSOCO Power Systems Award" for Doctoral Work in the year 2016
Highlighted as a top reviewer for the journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (SEGAN) published by Elsevier group for year 2015
One of the 50 scientists worldwide selected for Postdoctoral Research Opportunities Week 2014 at The Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
Research award at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India for year 2014 in recognition of Quality and Quantity of the Research Work
Received excellent Teaching Assistant award for year 2014 at IIT Madras, India
Talks
Gave a lecture on the topic "Smart Transformer for Realizing Meshed and Hybrid Electric Distribution Grid" at Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT ), Austria in 2022.
Gave a webinar on the topic "Smart Transformer Applications in Power Distribution Systems" organized by IEEE PES Madras Chapter on 29th Oct. 2021
Gave a webinar on the topic "Power Electronics Technologies and Their Grid Applications" sponserd by Department of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China and IEEE IES Nanjing Chapter on 19th July, 2020
Gave a webinar on the topic "Smart Transformer Applications" at National Institute of Technology Warangal on 07th January 2021.