LEKSHMI NAIR K. B.

Experience

• Research Experience: Research Scholar (Full-time) at College of Engineering Trivandrum - 5 Years

• Assistant Professor at Mohandas College of Engineering & Technology - 6 Years

• Assistant Professor (Guest) at College oF Engineering, Trivandrum - 6 months

• Project Assistant in Energy Management Center, Department of Power, Government of Kerala - 3 months

Education

Publications

• 'Voltage Stability Assessment of Transmission System with Electric Vehicles as Virtual Power Plant’ (2022) IEEE International Power and Renewable Energy Conference (IPRECON) 2022, Dec 16 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

• 'Coordinated Charging of Electric Vehicles for Load Levelling in Power Distribution Networks' - 2023 International Conference on Control, Communication, and Computing (ICCC), May 19-21, IEEE. (Best paper Award)

• 'Power Flow Control and Tapping of Half-wavelength Transmission lines using Shunt FACTS Controllers' - NCEIS 2013

• 'Generation Scheduling with Battery Cost Models under Take-or-Pay Green Energy Agreement' - Journal of Energy Storage, Elsevier. (Under Review)

• 'Improvement of Load Factor in Power Distribution Networks using Electric Vehicles' - Electrical Engineering, Springer. (Second revision submitted) – Impact Factor-1.8

Seminars/FDPs/Workshops/Conferences Attended

1. Faculty Induction Programme - ISTE & Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology (May 27-May 31, 2013 & Nov 18-Nov 23, 2013)

2. Awareness cum training workshop for higher educational Institutions - EMC, Kerala (Sept 4, 2013)

3. Signals & systems - IIT Kharagpur & Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology (Jan 2–Jan. 12, 2014)

4. DISCOVER Arduino'15 - Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology (June 12 & 13, 2015)

5. National Level seminar on Energy Conservation and Management - John Cox Memorial CSI Institute of Technology (Sep 4-Sep5 , 2015)

6. Training on Solar PV system Designing - Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology (Dec 14 & 15,2015)

7. Kerala State Energy conservation Award 2016- sensitization program - Energy Management centre (June 29, 2016)

8. LABVIEW for Teaching and Research - Lourdes Matha College of Science and Technology, Kuttichal (January 16 & 17, 2017)

9. Training on Solar Food Processing Technology- Entrepreneurship Opportunities - Society for Energy, Environment & Development (SEED), Hyderabad (Feb 20-23, 2017)

10. Let’s Go Green Together – Green Buildings - Muslim Association College of Engineering, Venjaramoodu (March 17 & 18, 2017)

11. Short term training programme on Advancements in Power Electronics, Drives for Grid connected Renewable Energy Systems - Mar Baselios College of Engineering (June 19-23, 2017)

12. Mathematical Approaches for Engineering Research - Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology (July 3-7, 2017)

13. Electric Power systems - IIT Kharagpur & Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology (July 10-15, 2017)

14. Renewable Energy and Grid Interface Technologies - National Power training Institute, Southern Region, Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu (February 25, 2019)

15. National Conference on Innovations in Electric Vehicle Technologies - College of Engineering Trivandrum (March 7-9, 2019)

16. Electric Vehicle: Development, Integration and Challenges - TKM College of Engineering, Kollam (July 08-12, 2019)

17. Modelling and Simulation of Power Converters: from Theory to Practice - College of Engineering Trivandrum (December 16-21, 2019)

18. Research Initiatives in Renewable Energy Systems - Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science (July 21-25, 2020)

19. Electric Vehicle: Challenges in Charging and their impact on power grid - College of Engineering Thalassery (September 6-10, 2021)

20. Machine Learning for Engineering Applications - College of Engineering Trivandrum (December 20-22, 2021)

21. IEEE International Power and Renewable Energy Conference - 2022 - IEEE Student Branch College of Engineering Karunagappally (17 - 18 December 2022)

22. 34th Annual Faculty Convention of ISTE Kerala Section & National Seminar on Emerging Technological Trends in the era of AI - ISTE Kerala Section (20 January 2024)

23. 3-day FDP on National Education Policy: Quality Enhancements and Reforms in Higher Education Institutions in alignment with NAAC - Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, Thrissur (1 to 3 February, 2024)