Saikat Chakrabarti
Professor
Emera Research Chair in Smart Grid Technologies
Director of the Emera and NB Power Research Centre for Smart Grid Technologies
Fellow (INAE, India), Fellow (IE, India)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of New Brunswick
15 Dineen Drive, Fredericton
New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3
Email: saikat.chakrabarti@unb.ca
Brief biography
Prof. S. Chakrabarti completed PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2006. Before completing PhD, he worked in Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Limited, India, and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India. After completing PhD, he worked as a Special Scientist at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus, and first as a Research Associate and then as a Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Since 2009 he worked in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, where he was a Chair Professor since 2018. From July 2023, he has been working as a Chair Professor and Director of the Emera and NB Power Research Centre for Smart Grid Technologies, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.