Academic Profile

2015-2019 PhD, Département d’Informatique, ENS and DYOGENE, INRIA Paris

Advisor: Ana Bušić, INRIA and ENS, France.

Thesis: Optimization and control of storage in smart grids, (successfully defended on 6/Dec./2019; {video link}; {pdf link}). Thesis Jury: Luce Brotcorne (INRIA Lille), Prabir Barooah (University of Florida), Nadia Oudjane (EDF France), Daniel Kofman (Télécom ParisTech), Jean Maeght (RTE France), Hrvoje Pandžić (University of Zagreb).

2010-2012 Masters in Energy Systems Engineering, IIT Bombay, India.

Advisor: Suryanarayana Doolla, Associate Professor, IIT Bombay, India.

Thesis: Design and Development of UPF Rectifier in Microgrid Environment (Link to thesis)

CGPA: 8.34/10 (Link)

2006-2010 Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University,

Advisor: Prof. Badrul Hasan Khan, ZHCET, AMU Aligarh, India.

Thesis: Study, simulation, design of MPPT circuit for solar PV panels. (Link to thesis)

CGPA: 8.26/10 (Link)

Professional Experience: Industrial & Consultancy

Feb 2020 – Present Senior Engineer: Operations, Planning and Innovation at EirGrid, Dublin, Ireland. The core responsibility is to manage the operation of the power system ensuring a secure, reliable, sustainable and economic way. Operations, Planning and Innovation function is also responsible for the long term sustainable development of the transmission system in order to meet the future needs of all users of electricity on the island of Ireland.

Aug 2019 – Feb 2020 Power Systems Consultant at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal. Working with Dr. Lucas Pereira and mentoring students. Sponsored by EU project SMILE (Smart Islands). Projects ongoing: (a) Sizing of storage and renewable for prosumers based on historical data, (b) EV charging strategies considering LV network norms, (c) Utility scale storage applications, and (d) Myopic storage control algorithms using machine learning.

Aug 2012 – Sep 2015 (3 years 2 months) Engineer, Modeling and Simulation Center of Excellence, Eaton Corporation, Pune, India. Learnings: control, diagnostic algorithm development, electrical system analysis and modeling.

• Capacitor Bank Prognostics and Health Monitoring (2013-2015): Mathematical modeling of a capacitor bank, experiment design, data analysis and algorithm design to locate faults, co-simulations, statistical analysis.

• UPS Parallel Control(2013-2015): Control development, stability analysis with Matlab SimPowerSystem, PLECS.

• SIL Compliant Electro-hydraulic Steering System (2012-2013): Architecture development, AMESim and Simulink based co-simulation model development. Design for Six Sigma Certification at Eaton Corporation, 2015.

Professional responsibilities: Learning, innovation, research, knowledge sharing, mentoring, team building initiatives.