Highlights
RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS
• NSF Student Attendee Scholarship awarded for research work to be presented at IEEE PECI 2020.
• First Best Poster Award for doctoral research work presented at IEEE TPEC 2020.
More details: https://ece.umn.edu/doctoral-candidates-burhaneddin-yaman-renata-saha-and-anushree-ramanath-receive-travel-grants/
• NSF Travel Grant for doctoral research work presented at IEEE TPEC 2020.
• Featured on the university department website through a spotlight article highlighting my journey so far:
https://ece.umn.edu/anushree-ramanath-improving-clean-energy-practices/
• Invited as Session Chair for ‘Urban Land Use and Land Cover Change’ oral session at IEEE IGARSS 2019 conference organized at Yokohama, Japan in July 2019.
• Best Poster Award for research work on Ćuk converter topologies presented at IEEE PECI 2019 conference organized at Illinois, United States.
More details: https://ece.umn.edu/anushree-ramanath-wins-best-poster-award-at-2019-ieee-peci/
• NSF Travel Grant awarded to attend IEEE PECI 2019 based on an abstract of doctoral research work.
• Winner of MinneHack 2019, the largest hackathon in the Twin Cities with 300+ participants organized at Minnesota, United States.
More details: https://ece.umn.edu/collaborative-team-of-university-and-macalester-college-students-win-at-minnehack-2019/
• NSF Mini Grant worth $3,000 to conduct customer interviews for facilitating product prototype as part of NSF MinCorps.
• Best Poster Award for research work on Ćuk converter topologies by CIGS amongst all the disciplines at the University of Minnesota.
• Awarded eleven gold medals for securing first rank for the university amongst 200+ colleges during BE in Karnataka, India.
• Won first prize in State level technical quiz (E&E) competition organized by Upskills in Karnataka, India.
• Felicitated with Best Outgoing Student Award for all-round excellence at undergraduate level in Karnataka, India.
• Awarded Ministry of Human Resource Development Merit Scholarship four times consecutively – throughout the undergraduate degree program for exemplary academic performance.
SCHOLARSHIP
My research work has been presented at several reputed gatherings in four countries so far including Canada, Japan, India and United States.
PUBLICATIONS:
• A. Ramanath, J. D. Manian Deivanayagam, S. Raju and N. Mohan, "An Extremely Low-Cost Wind Emulator," IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, 2018, pp. 1675-1680. doi: 10.1109/IECON.2018.8592727
• A. Ramanath, A. Kshirsagar and N. Mohan, "Analysis of Current Ripple in Ćuk Converter Topologies - A Novel Approach," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Chennai, India, 2018, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/PEDES.2018.8707913
• A. Kshirsagar, A. Ramanath, J. D. Manian Deivanayagam, S. Thamballa and N. Mohan, "Analytical modeling of MMCs with asymmetric cell voltages for utility-scale renewable energy integration," 2019 20th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2019, pp. 1-7. doi: 10.1109/COMPEL.2019.8769629
• A. Ramanath, S. Muthusrinivasan, Y. Xie, S. Shekhar and B. Ramachandra, "NDVI Versus CNN Features in Deep Learning for Land Cover Clasification of Aerial Images," IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, 2019, pp. 6483-6486. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8900165
• A. Ramanath, A. Kshirsagar, S. Thamballa and N. Mohan, "Equivalent Modeling, Design and Analysis of Integrated Magnetics Ćuk Converter," 2019 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Wichita, KS, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/NAPS46351.2019.9000277
• J. D. M. Deivanayagam, A. Ramanath and N. Mohan, "A Review of GaN based Inverters for Integration of Renewables with the Grid," 2019 National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2019, pp. 1- 6. doi: 10.1109/NPEC47332.2019.9034752
• A. Ramanath, N. Mohan, “Performance Analysis of GaN-based Converter with Integrated Magnetics”, IEEE Power Electronics, Smart grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE) 2020.
• A. Ramanath, N. Mohan, “Life Assessment of Converter with Integrated Magnetics for Residential Solar Applications”, IEEE ECCE 2020 (under-review).
• A. Ramanath, N. Gupta and A. Larson “User Interactive Persistence of Vision”, International Journal for Embedded Systems (under-review).
• A. Ramanath, J. D. Manian Deivanayagam, S. Raju and N. Mohan, "An Extremely Low-Cost Wind Emulator to Facilitate Learning and Research", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (under-review).
PRESENTATIONS:
• Invited to present a lightening talk on a part of doctoral research at the Sustainability and Energy Expo organized by IonE on 04/03/2020.
• Presented an invited poster on a part of doctoral research work at IEEE PECI 2020 conference held at Illinois, US on 02/27/2020.
• Presented an invited poster on a part of doctoral research work at IEEE TPEC 2020 conference held at Texas, US and was felicitated with the first 'Best Poster Award' on 02/06/2020.
• Presented research work on performance analysis of GaN-based converter with integrated magnetics as an oral presentation at IEEE PESGRE 2020 conference held at Cochin, India on 01/03/2020.
• Presented review of GaN based inverters as an oral presentation at IEEE NPEC 2019 conference held at Tiruchirapalli, India on 12/14/2019.
• Presented work on analysis of Ćuk converter with integrated magnetics as an oral presentation at IEEE NAPS 2019 conference held at Kansas, US on 10/14/2019.
• Poster presentation on ‘NDVI versus CNN Features in Deep Learning for Land Cover Classification of Aerial Images’ at IEEE IGARSS 2019 on 07/29/2019 organized at Yokohama, Japan.
• Presented a poster on ‘Analytical modeling of MMCs with asymmetric cell voltages for utility-scale renewable energy integration’ at IEEE COMPEL 2019 on 06/18/2019 organized at Toronto, Canada.
• Invited for presenting research work at 'Innovation Talk' organized by ACM-W on 04/25/2019 organized at Minnesota, United States.
• Presented research work at NSF/NAE-Sponsored ECE Department Heads workshop ‘Combating Climate Change: Can it also help the ECE Renaissance?’ on 04/19/2019 organized at Minnesota, United States.
• Poster presentation at Sustainability and Energy Expo organized by IonE on 04/05/2019 organized at Minnesota, United States.
• Invited as GWC UMN Spotlight Speaker by Girls Who Code to present graduate research work on 03/05/2019 organized at Minnesota, United States.
• Research work on Ćuk Converter with Integrated Magnetics was selected to be presented at the IEEE PECI 2019 conference and was felicitated with the 'Best Poster Award' on 02/28/2019 organized at Illinois, United States.
• Presented work on current ripple analysis of Ćuk converter topologies at IEEE PEDES 2018 conference held at IIT-Madras, India on 12/19/2018.
• Research work on Ćuk Converter with Integrated Magnetics was selected to be presented at the Council of International Graduate Students (CIGS) Annual Research Showcase 2018 across all disciplines and felicitated with the 'Best Poster Award' on 11/30/2018 organized at Minnesota, United States.
• Presented work on wind emulator at IEEE IECON 2018 conference held at Washington DC, United States on 10/22/2018.
• Presented work on wind emulator at 'CLIMATE CRISIS: Implementing Solutions' workshop held at University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States on 04/28/2018.
• Presented work on wind emulator at NSF-sponsored workshop organized at National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, United States on 04/05/2018 and 04/06/2018.
• Presented research work on Ćuk converter topologies as part of NSF-sponsored workshop organized at University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States on 06/16/2017 and 06/17/2017.