Abhijit Kshirsagar

Electrical Engineer, Researcher and Educator

My new homepage is here: https://iitdh.ac.in/~kabhijit/

Assistant Professor,

Dept. of Electrical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, India.

Formerly Research Fellow under the ORISE-ASTRO Program

National Transportation Research Center,

Oak Ridge National Lab, Knoxville TN

(June 2019 - January 2020)

Formerly Post-doctoral associate

in Prof. Ned Mohan's Lab, ECE Department

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

(November 2016 - June 2019)

Ph. D. Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore (2016)

M. Tech. Electronic Sys. Engineering, IISc Bangalore (2010)

SELECTED Publications:

Asymmetrical Open-End Induction Motor Drives:

1. A Kshirsagar, RS Kaarthik, K Gopakumar, L Umanand, K Rajashekara: Low Switch Count Nine-Level Inverter Topology for Open-End Induction Motor Drives, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics

2. A Kshirsagar, S Kaarthik, K Gopakumar, L Umanand, S Biswas, C Cecati: A Low Component Count Seventeen-Level Inverter for Open-End IM Drives, IET Power Electronics

3. A Kshirsagar, RS Kaarthik, M Boby, L Umanand, K Gopakumar: Elimination of dead-time transients in a three-level flying capacitor inverter using a state machine for switching state sequence selection, IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) 2016

Modular Multilevel Converters for Renewable Applications:

1. A Kshirsagar, A Ramanath, Jeyaram D, T Sreekanth, N Mohan: Analytical modeling of MMCs with asymmetric cell voltages for utility-scale renewable energy integration, IEEE COMPEL 2019

1. VN Vipin, A Kshirsagar, D Opila, N Mohan: Utility scale interface for renewables and storage using a power electronic transformer with back-to-back MMCs: A novel control scheme, IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2017

2. VN Vipin, A Kshirsagar, D Opila, N Mohan: Utility Scale Interface for Renewables and Storage using a Power Electronic Transformer with Back-to-Back MMCs: A Novel Proposal and Control Scheme for Virtual Inertia, IEEE ECCE 2018

Matrix Converters:

1. S Krishnamoorthi, S Tewari, S Raju, A Kshirsagar, D Opila, N Mohan: A ride-through method using input-filter capacitors for three-level indirect matrix converter based open-end winding drive, ECCE 2017

Teaching Experience

1. Teaching "EE2701: Sustainable Electricity Supply" to EE undergraduates in Spring 2019.

2. Developed experiments and materials for Laboratory Course "EE1703: Climate Crisis: Implementing Solutions"

3. Created module on EMI/EMC for Power Electronics Engineers for CUSP at UMN (2017). Instructor: Profs Ned Mohan and Bill Robbins

4. Created Simulation toolkit using gEDA and ngSPICE for Digital Controller Design Course at IISc (2015) Instructor: Prof L. Umanand

areas of Expertise

1. Power Electronics

2. Electronic System Design

3. Analysis and mitigation of noise, EMI and EMC in electronic system

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