​​Brief biography

Prof. S. Chakrabarti completed PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2006. Before completing PhD, he worked at 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 has been working in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, where he has been a Chair Professor since 2018. From July 2023 to April 2014, he worked as a Chair Professor and Director of the Emera and NB Power Research Centre for Smart Grid Technologies, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of monitoring, control, and protection of smart transmission and distribution systems and microgrids.

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