About Me

I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in National Renewable Energy Laboratory. I received my Ph.D. in Power Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (UMN), advised by Prof. Murti V. Salapaka. Prior to joining UMN, I completed my Masters’ from Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, advised by Prof. Anupama Kowli and bachelors’ from Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, advised by Prof. Debjani Ganguly. I had worked as a Junior Research Fellow with Prof. Sarasij Das in Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 

With the vision of designing a robust and resilient power grid with multiple renewable-energy-resources (RESs) and inverter-based-resources (IBRs), my research interests are:  (i) design of modern control techniques for grid-following (GFL) and grid-forming (GFM) IBRs, (ii) stability analysis of microgrid with multiple RESs and IBRs, (iii) design of advanced protection system for power system with large-penetration of IBRs, (iv) modern controller-hardware-in-the-loop and power-hardware-in-the-loop based real-time simulation study. 

In my doctoral work at University of Minnesota, I have focused on studying and applying modern control system theories such as robust control, optimal control, etc. on the RES-interfaced IBRs in order to enhance robustness and resiliency of the power grid. In my postdoctoral work at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, I am working to resolve some emerging challenges that includes protection functionalities of the current power grid with high penetration of RESs and IBRs, and to understand the operational stability aspects of physical-inertia-less power grid.