Education & Work

Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy:  Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. (2015-2022)

    Thesis Title:  Inverters Based Resources: Control Towards Grid Support Functionalities and Improved Reliability [Abstract ]

    Thesis Description: The increasing deployment of renewable energy sources poses several challenges to the operation of the legacy grid due to their low inertia, intermittent power profile, and unavailability due to environmental conditions. My  Ph.D. dissertation addresses a few of these challenges, including short-term voltage intermittency and poor reliability of the power converters. Furthermore, I have also studied the possibility of engaging renewable energy sources for harmonic compensation for both islanded and grid-connected applications.

• Master of Technology: Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. (2015-2021)

Thesis Title:  Adaptive Reactive Power Injection by PV Inverter to Minimize Tap Changing Operations of OLTC [Abstract ]

    Thesis Description: Conventionally, on-load tap changing transformers (OLTCs), step voltage regulators (SVRs), etc., are used to regulate the voltage. These equipment are designed to work in the passive distribution network. However, the growing deployment of PV or other renewable energy sources results in variations in voltage due to their intermittent power profile. This might result in a higher number of tap operations of OLTCs, which reduces their lifetime. My M. Tech dissertation explored the possibility of engaging installed PV inverters or other renewable energy sources to reduce the voltage variation by injecting reactive power and, thereby, minimizing the tap operations of OLTCs.

• Bachelor of Engineering:  Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, West Bengal, India

Work:

• Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi: Assistant Professor, Varanasi, India (Feb 2025-Present)

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville:  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA (Sept 2022-Feb 2025)

    Projects: 

• • • • •   Power enhancement of short transmission corridor

• • • • •   Development of bidirectional DC-DC EV charger

• • • • •   Application scenario development of SiC based solid state circuit breaker (SSCB)

• • • • • Grid integration requirements for PEM electrolyzer

• • • • • Starting algorithm development for MMC

For more details, please refer to "Projects" under the "Research" tab.

• ABB India Ltd:  Research and Development, Discrete Automation and Motion (DMDR), Bengaluru, India (Aug 2013-June 2015)

    Projects:

• • • • •   Failure analysis of gate driver circuit of low voltage high power drives

• • • • •   Hot transfer between drives

• • • • •   Testing and installation of solar pumps 

• CESC Ltd: Summer Internship, Dept. of System Control, Kolkata, India (Summer 2012)

Projects:

• • • • •   Design and simulation of the transmission network of CESC in ETAP to facilitate multipoint synchronization with

   national grid

• • • • •   Optimal placement of capacitor banks to regulate the voltage profile at the critical buses in the transmission network