Krishan Kant

Work experience

Dec 23 - Feb 25 GE Vernova Advance Research Center, Research Engineer, Niskayuna, NY, USA

Electrical Machines and Power Electronics design

Jan 23 - Dec 23 MIT, Postdoctoral Associate, Precision Motion Control Lab

Design of Very High Acceleration Linear Motors, Low Ripple Power Electronics converters for Mechatronics Application, High Speed Induction Motor.

Sep 22 - Dec 22 MIT, Teaching Assistant, Digital Control System

Theoretical and Experimental understanding of digital implementation of control. Considerations of ADC, DAC, program propagation for control design. Dynamic error budgeting.

Sep 19 - Dec 19 MIT, Teaching Assistant, Advanced System Dynamics and Control course

State space based control system design, Controllability, Observability. Advanced observers like Luenberger, Kalman Filters, Extended Kalman Filter, Simultaneous localization and mapping.

May 19 - Aug 19 ABB Corporate Research, Summer Intern, Raleigh, USA

Design, Development and Testing of Integrated Motor Drive for small industrial motors to achieve high efficiency standard. Comparison of various PFC topologies for cost and efficiency for the integrated motor drive.

Jan 15- Jul 17 Exicom Power Solutions, Assistant Manager, R&D Power Electronics, Gurgaon, India

Three Port Converter with AC IN, AC OUT and DC IN/OUT for Critical Loads in 1U size. Active Power Filter: Prototype developed and tested for harmonics, reactive power and neutral current compensation

Jul 12- Jun 14 Teaching Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Basic Power Engineering Lab, Power System Lab, Electrical Machines Lab, Microprocessors and DSP lab with application to Drives, Power Electronics Lab, Hardware in Loop Testing. Developed 3 Experiments for lab.

May 11- Jul 11 Summer Internship, ABB Limited, India

Manufacturing and testing of Induction Motors was studied.

May 10- Jul 10 Summer Internship, Indian Railway, Electric Locomotive, India

Traction motors and converters, Static & Rotary converters and other equipment employed in electric locos were studied.

Education

Jun 19 - Jan 23 PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- Novel bearingless motor with magnet free rotor for an extracorporeal blood pump.
- 6 degrees of freedom position sensor for bearingless slice motors.
- Novel rotor design for bearingless IPM rotor for robust pump operation.
- Methods to enhance the passive magnetic stiffness of bearingless slice motors.

Sep 17 - May 19 S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- Design and Optimization of Flux Switching Permanent Magnet Motor, Surface Mount PM motor and PM Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor for Electric vehicles.
- Electromechanical Design of Reaction wheel/ Control Moment gyro for small satellites.

Jul 12 - Jun 14 M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

- Design, Control and Implementation of Brushless Generators based Standalone Microgrid
- Control of DSTATCOM and Metaheuristic Techniques based PI controller gains tuning

Jul 08 - Jun 12 B.Tech., National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

- Transient Stability Improvement of Single Machine Infinite Bus Power System using Fuzzy Logic Controlled Braking Resistor
- Design of Distribution Transformer and Induction Motor, Speed Control of Induction motor using Fuzzy logic controller. Design of Medium Length Transmission Line

Invited Talks

Novel Bearingless Slice Motor and Switching Amplifiers for Blood Pump, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, EE Dept., Aug 2023.
Novel Bearingless Slice Motor and Switching Amplifiers for Blood Pump, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, EE Dept., Oct 2023.
Novel Bearingless Slice Motor and Switching Amplifiers for Blood Pump, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, EE Dept., Feb 2023.
Novel Bearingless Slice Motor and Switching Amplifiers for Blood Pump, ASML Veldhoven, Netherlands, July 2022.
Novel Bearingless Slice Motor, Position Sensor and Switching Amplifiers for Blood Pump, ASML Wilton, CT, USA, June 2022.
Optimization of Traction Motors for Electric Vehicles, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Power Group, India, Nov 2021.

Awards

Jin Au Kong PhD Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering by EECS department, MIT, 2024.
EECS graduate alumni fellowship 2017 by EECS department, MIT.
Innovative Student Project Award 2014 for M.Tech project by Indian National Academy of Engineering, given to 5 projects all over India.
Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2015 (Hari OM Ashram Prerit Dr. A.K.N. Reddy Award) under Socially Relevant Technological Innovation category by SRISTI and National Innovation Foundation India.
Got seed money from Social Innovation Fund provided by SRISTI (Socially Relevant Technological Innovation) for developing the prototype for Rural Electrification using renewable energy.
POSOCO Power System Award 2015 by POSOCO, first in Masters Category.
FITT Award for Best Industry Relevant Project by Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi.
Teaching Assistantship by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD, India) as M.Tech student in IIT Delhi.