1. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), Assam, India

PhD, Power Engineering (2017 - 2023)

2.  National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (NITK Surathkal), Karnataka, India

M.Tech, Power and Energy Systems (2013 - 2015)

3. Vasavi College of Engineering (VCE), Hyderabad, Telangana, India

B.E, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2009 - 2013)

1. BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women

Assistant Professor  (October 2022-present)

Role: Teaching, Research and Administration

2. Vignan's Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam

Assistant Professor  (July 2015 - March 2017)

Role: Teaching, Research and Administration

Teaching: Taught subjects of Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Non-conventional Power Sources, Energy Audit Conservation and Management, and Power Quality.

Research: Written research papers based on the work conducted during M.tech for publications.

Administration: Acted as a coordinator in conducting different activities such as industrial visits, social service activities, etc.

Journal Publications

1. J. Hossain, N. Saeed, R. Manojkumar, M. Marzband, A. Abusorrah, " Optimal Peak-Shaving Control Strategy Utilizing an Efficient PV-BES System for Dynamic Demand Response in Smart Malaysian Commercial Buildings," in Sustainable Cities and Society, doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2023.105107.

2. R. Manojkumar, C. Kumar, S. Ganguly and J. P. S. Catalão, "Net Load Forecast Error Compensation for Peak Shaving in a Grid-Connected PV Storage System," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3317309.

3. J. Hossain, A. F. A Kadir, H. Shareef, R. Manojkumar, N. Saeed, A. N. Nur Hanafi, "A Grid Connected Optimal Hybrid PV-BES System Sizing for Malaysian Commercial Buildings", in Sustainability 2023; 15(13):10564, July, 2023. 

4. D. Das, R. Manojkumar, C. Kumar and S. Ganguly, "Power Loss Minimization in Smart Transformer Enabled Low Voltage Islanded Meshed Hybrid Microgrid," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 123259-123270, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3224001. 

5. R. Manojkumar, C. Kumar, S. Ganguly, H. B. Gooi and S. Mekhilef, and J. P. S. Catalão "Rule-based Peak Shaving Using Master-Slave Level Optimization in a Diesel Generator Supplied Microgrid", in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, , doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2022.3187069.

6. C. Kumar, R. Manojkumar, S. Ganguly and M. Liserre, "Impact of Optimal Control of Distributed Generation Converters in Smart Transformer Based Meshed Hybrid Distribution Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 140268-140280, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3119349. 

7. R. Manojkumar, C. Kumar, S. Ganguly, "Optimal Demand Response in a Residential PV Storage System Using Energy Pricing Limits," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TII.2021.3103014 

8. R. Manojkumar, C. Kumar, S. Ganguly and J. P. S. Catalão, "Optimal Peak Shaving Control Using Dynamic Demand and Feed-In Limits for Grid-Connected PV Sources With Batteries," in IEEE Systems Journal, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2020.3045020. 

9. R. Manojkumar, Kumar, C., Ganguly, S., Gooi, H.B. and Mekhilef, S. (2020), Voltage control using smart transformer via dynamic optimal setpoints and limit tolerance in a residential distribution network with PV sources. IET Generation Transmission & Distribution, 14: 5143-5151. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-gtd.2020.0213 

10. R. Manojkumar, Jayaprakash. B, PV Nagaraju, "An Overview of Power  System State Estimation from  Static State Estimation to  Dynamic State Estimation", International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2017, Vol. 114, 8, pp. 123-129.

11. R Manojkumar, PV Nagaraju, "A working methodology of applying Unscented Kalman Filter Technique for Power System dynamic State Estimation," International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2017, Vol. 114, 8, pp. 255-263.

12. R. Manojkumar and D. Jena, "Advantage of extended kalman filter over discrete kalman filter in dynamic state estimation of power system network" International Journal of Control Theory and Applications, 2016, Vol.9, 10, pp.4795-4800.

Conference Publications

1. Inala, K. P., & Manojkumar, R. (2023, April). Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Applications in Smart Grid Security: A Survey. In XVIII International Conference on Data Science and Intelligent Analysis of Information (pp. 299-307). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

2. Hossain, J., Marzband, M., Saeed, N., Kalam, A., Hossain, M.A., Manojkumar, R. (2024). Optimal Sizing Capacities of Solar Photovoltaic and Battery Energy Storage Systems for Grid-Connected Commercial Buildings in Malaysia. In: Zhao, J., Kadam, S., Yu, Z., Li, X. (eds) IGEC Transactions, Volume 1: Energy Conversion and Management. IAGE 2023. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Cham.

3. J. Hossain, H. Shareef, M. A. Hossain, R. Manojkumar, Q. Abdullah and A. H. H. Al-Masoodi, “Optimizing Battery Energy Storage and Solar Photovoltaic Systems for Commercial Buildings in Malaysia: A Case Study,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ETFG), Wollongong, Australia, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ETFG55873.2023.10408468.

4. Arunima Dutta, R. Manojkumar, Chandan Kumar, “Power Management of a Smart Transformer based Ship Microgrid”, in 11th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Guwahati, IIT Guwahati, India, 14-16 Dec. 2023, , pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPEC57805.2023.10385022. 

5. J. Hossain, M. Marzband, A. Kalam, M. Alamgir Hossain, R. Manojkumar and N. Saeed, "Optimizing PV and Battery Energy Storage Systems for Peak Demand Reduction and Cost Savings in Malaysian Commercial Buildings," 2023 IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/GlobConET56651.2023.10149980.

6. Chandan Kumar, R. Manojkumar, Sanjib Ganguly, "Optimal Placement of Smart Transformer Low Voltage Converter in Meshed Hybrid Distribution Network" 12th IEEE 2021 - Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition - Asia (ECCE Asia 2021), 2021, pp. 1795-1800, doi: 10.1109/ECCE-Asia49820.2021.9479233. 

7. Dwijasish Das, R. Manojkumar, Chandan Kumar, Sanjib Ganguly, "Optimal Power Management for Islanded Operation of ST-based Meshed Hybrid LV Microgrid"12th IEEE 2021 - Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition - Asia (ECCE Asia 2021), 2021, pp. 183-188, doi: 10.1109/ECCE-Asia49820.2021.9479110. 

8. R. Manojkumar, C. Kumar and S. Ganguly, "Optimal Demand Response Using Dynamic Electricity Price Limit in a Hybrid AC/DC System," 2020 21st National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPSC49263.2020.9331852. 

9. C. Kumar, R. Manojkumar, S. Ganguly and M. Liserre, "Power Loss Minimization in Smart Transformer Based Meshed Hybrid Distribution Network," IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2020, pp. 1670-1675, doi: 10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254324. 

10. R. Manojkumar, V. M. Hrishikesan, C. Kumar and S. Ganguly, "Voltage Control Using Smart Transformer for Increasing Photovoltaic Penetration in a Distribution Grid," 2019 20th International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems (ISAP), 2019, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ISAP48318.2019.9065949. 

11. R. Manojkumar and D. Jena, "Advantage of Unscented Kalman Filter over Extended Kalman Filter in dynamic state estimation of power system network," Michael Faraday IET International Summit 2015, 2015, pp. 278-283, doi: 10.1049/cp.2015.1644. 

• Operation and planning of power systems

• Energy management using energy storage and power electronics converters

• Power systems state estimation

• Meshed and hybrid power systems

• Optimal power flow

• Voltage control

• Data analysis and artificial Intelligence for power systems

Reviewed IEEE Journal Articles: 28, Elsevier Journal Articles: 28

• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

• Reviewer for  IEEE Systems Journal

• Reviewer for IEEE Access Journal.

• Reviewer for Reviewer for Applied Energy

• Reviewer for International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

• Reviewer for Energy Reports

• Reviewer for International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

• Reviewer for Journal of Energy Storage

• Reviewer for Journal of Building Engineering

• Reviewer for Results in Engineering. 

• Resource person for a guest lecture on “Rule-based approach for Peak Shaving with Energy Storage”, Organized By Dept. of EEE in Association With Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science IEEE & ISTE Chapter, Andhra Pradesh, held on 02.11.2023.

• Resource person for the talk on "Optimal Rule-based Energy Management and Voltage Control Using Battery Energy Storage and Smart Power Converters" conducted by VEDIC – Research Enabling Program [V-REP], Faculty Research Colloquium, SVES on 09.06.2023.

• Speaker of IEEE Smart grid webinar titled "Smart Power Converters for Steady State Voltage Support" held on Mar, 2023, https://smartgrid.ieee.org/resources/webinars/distribution/smart-power-converters-for-steady-state-voltage-support 

• Resource person for a session of a two-week short-term training program on fundamentals of MATLAB conducted under student chapter of The Institution of Engineers (India).

• Received gold medal in the NPTEL course titled "Operation and Planning of Power Distribution Systems".

• Received silver medal in the NPTEL Course "MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation".

• Received the best paper award in 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (ICDSAI) 2023 for the paper titled "Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Applications in Smart Grid Security: A survey". 

• Obtained a percentile of 98.66 in GATE EE-2016, a test conducted to know the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in engineering and science.

• Secured Second rank in 3-minute Thesis competition conducted by IEEE student chapter, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

• Received Scholarship from Ministry of Education, Government of India during M.Tech.

• Received Scholarship from Ministry of Education, Government of India during PhD.

• Teaching assistant for the NPTEL online course “Operation and Planning of Power Distribution Systems”, conducted by Government of India. 

• Author at Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing where handwritten notes of several subjects are available. 

• Youtuber at https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeLearningStudio where lecture videos of few important points of topics in Electrical & Electronics Engineering are presented.