Dr. Ranjan Kumar Behera

 
Dr. Ranjan Kumar Behera
Associate Professor
Ph.D, IIT Kanpur
Ph: +91-612-302 8050
Fax: +91-612-227 7383
rkb[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Research Areas : Design and Fabrication of Power Electronics Circuits, Control of Electrical Drives, Application of Nonlinear Control Theory to Power Electronics and Electric Drives, Pulse Width Modulation Techniques for Power Electronics
No. of PhD Students :

Saifullah Payami

Md. Junaid Akhtar
Supervisor
Roll. No. Name
1621EE19 JITENDRA KUMAR SINGH
1721EE06 UTKAL RANJAN MUDULI
1721EE10 BHEEMAIAH CHIKONDRA
1721EE12 SURYAPRAKASH
 
1921EE06 SWAPAN KUMAR BAKSHI
2021EE24 PIYALI PAL
Co-Supervisor / Joint Supervisor
Roll. No. Name
1721CS09 NEERAJ
1821EE08 SHUBHAM ANAND
Professional Experience :
  • Associate Professor - Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar
  • Assistant Professor - Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar
  • Visiting Scholar - The Center for Energy Systems, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, USA
  • Project Associate - Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP
  • Lecturer - Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Viswanadh Institute of Technology and Management, Parvatipuram, Andhra Pradesh
  • Trainee Engineer - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Koraput Division, Sunabeda, Orissa
University / Organization Designation Nature of Experience
Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India Associate Professor Teaching and research
Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India Assistant Professor Teaching and research
University of Pretoria, South Africa Visiting researcher Research on Solar Energy
Awards & Honours :
  • First Position in Poster Presentation at RSD-2020, IIT Patna.
  • Two projects received consolation prizes of Rs. 40,000/- at GRIDTECH 2019 held at Delhi.
  • Bharat Vikas Award, Institute of Self-reliance, Bhubaneswar 2017,
  • Senior Member IEEE
  • Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). For doing advanced research on Grid Interaction including Smart Grids and System Development and Integration at Tennessee Technological University, Tennessee, USA, 2014.
  • Selected as the featured engineer of the globe by EE Web:
    Link-http://www.eeweb.com/spotlight/interview-with-dr.-ranjan-kumar-behera, 2015.
  • Dr. Ranjan Kumar Behera has been Selected of his biographical profile for inclusion in the new "Who's Who in the World® 2013 (30rd Edition)".
  • Scholarship by MHRD India, for pursuing M.Tech & PhD at IIT Kanpur.
  • National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2007), Best research paper award, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  • Best research paper award, International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems & Power Electronics in Emerging Economies, April 2009, SRM University, Chennai, India.
  • National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2011), Best research paper award, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur.
  • Invited as session chair at International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES 2010)”, Session Title: Electrical Drives, MNNIT, Allahabad, India, November 29- December 01, 2010.
  • Invited as session chair at IEEE-POWER INDIA- PEDES 2010, Session Title: Multilevel Inverters, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Delhi, India, 21-23 December 2010.
  • Young scientists award in engineering sciences for “High Power AC Drives for Electric Locomotive and General Purpose off Highway Applications,” Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2011.
  • Invited as session chair at IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2013), Cape Town, South Africa, February 25-27, 2013, Session Title: Sensors, Actuators and Systems Integration 1.
  • Senior Member IEEE
  • Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). For doing advanced research on Grid Interaction including Smart Grids and System Development and Integration at Tennessee Technological University, Tennessee, USA.
  • Co-chair (Technical) on Third International Conference on advances in control and optimization of dynamical systems (ACODS-2014), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, 13-15 March 2014.
  • Invited as session chair at IEEE International Conference Conference on Power Electronics, Drives And Energy Systems, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bomday, India, 15-19 December 2014, Session Title: Control of Power Converter and Microgrid.
  • Selected as the featured engineer of the globe by EE Web: Link-http://www.eeweb.com/spotlight/interview-with-dr.-ranjan-kumar-behera
  • National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2007), Best research paper award, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  • Best research paper award, International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems & Power Electronics in Emerging Economies, April 2009 Chennai, India.
  • National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2011), Best research paper award, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur.
  • Invited as session chair at International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES 2010)”, Session Title: Electrical Drives, MNNIT, Allahabad, India, November 29- December 01, 2010.
  • Invited as session chair at IEEE-POWER INDIA- PEDES 2010, Session Title: Multilevel Inverters, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Delhi, India, 21-23 December 2010.
  • Young scientists award in engineering sciences for “High Power AC Drives for Electric Locomotive and General Purpose off Highway Applications,” Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2011.
  • Invited as session chair at IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2013), Cape Town, South Africa, February 25-27, 2013, Session Title: Sensors, Actuators and Systems Integration 1.
Reviewer of International Journals :
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
  • IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
  • IET Power Electronics.
  • IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2014), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Electric Power Components and Systems.
  • International Journal of Power Electronics, Inderscience Publishers Ltd, Switzerland.
Member of Professional bodies :
  • IEEE
  • Senior Member of IEEE (USA).
Current Sponsored projects :
  • National Mission for Power Electronics Technology (NaMPET) Project by Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India is established at Advanced Electrical Engineering Laboratory, IIT Patna.
    Under this project IIT Patna will do “Modeling, Design and Implementation of Induction Motor Drives for Propulsion Applications”, 2012. (2 Years)
    PI: Dr. Ranjan K. Behera, Co-PI: Dr. Sanjoy K. Parida
  • Fast track Project for young scientists in engineering sciences-2011, Entitled, “High Power AC Drives for Electric Locomotive and General Purpose off Highway Applications”.
    Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India. (3 Years).
    PI: Dr. Ranjan K. Behera
  • Science and Engineering Research Board Project in engineering sciences-2013, Entitled, “Integrated Automatic Voltage Control of a High Efficient Solar PV System”.
    Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India. (4 Years).
    PI: Dr. Ranjan K. Behera
Teaching : B. Tech.
  • EE280: Electrical Machines
  • EE280: Electrical Machines Laboratory
  • EE 202: Digital Circuits and Microprocessors
  • EE 202: Digital Circuits and Microprocessors Laboratory
  • EE102: Basic Electronics Laboratory
  • EE481: Power Electronics and Drives
  • EE482: Advance Electrical Laboratory
Ph. D.
  • EE760: Basics of Power Electronics Converters.
Invited Lectures :
  • Invited speaker in Research Conclave, title of presentation is “Green Energy Possibilities in Indian Context,” at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2014, India, 10th December 2014.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Dynamics and Control of Active Dual Bridge Converter for All Solar Micro-grid" at Department of computer science and electrical engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA on 2nd July 2014.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Control of Active Dual Bridge Converter for Micro-grid Application" at Department of computer science and electrical engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA on 2nd July 2014.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Modeling and Control of Efficient Solar Energy Converters" at Center for Energy Systems Research, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA on 21st May 2014.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program on "Advances in Energy and Control Systems". Title of presentation is “Control of High Efficient Solar and Wind Power Converters,” at Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women, Bhimavaram Andhra Pradesh, India, 21st April 2014.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program on "Recent Trends in Power Electronics Converters". Title of presentation is “RecentAdvances in High Power Medium Voltage Converters and High Performance Drives,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, 05th April 2014.
  • Invited as guest speaker in International seminar on "Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicle(EV/HEV, entitled "Control of Electrical Drives for EV/HEV and motors for EV/HEV” at Raja Rajeswari College of Engineering, Bangalore on 19th February 2014.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Efficient Solar Power System" at Indian Institute of Business Management (IIBM), Patna, India on 17th November 2013.
  • Keynote speaker in DST and CSIR Sponsored International Conference BICON – 2013 on “Soft Computing Application to Power System and Control MATLAB. Title of presentation is “Power Electronic Systems for the Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources,” at Biyani College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 22nd September 2013.
  • Invited as guest speaker in short-term training program for the engineers in the Building Construction Department, Govt. of Bihar, Entitled: Modern Electrical Wirings in Residential Buildings and The Future Building Power Supply & Innovation Challenges on 24th May 2013, at IIT Patna. Patna, India.
  • Invited in International Renewable Energy Exhibition and Conference (RENERGY 2013) for panel discussion on Large Solar Farm Integration Challenges and Rooftop Solar System, Tamilnadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA), 9 - 11th May 2013, Chennai Trade Centre, Nandambakkam, Chennai, India.
  • Chief Guest and Keynote speaker in National Conference on “Advanced Computing Techniques and Applications (NCACTA-2012)". Title of presentation is “Wireless Power Transfer: The Next Generation Power Transmission System” at Roland Institute of Technology, Berhampur, Orissa, India, 1st December 2012.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Wireless Power Transfer: The Next Generation Power Transmission System" at Orissa School of Mining Engineering (OSME), Keonjhor, Odisha, India on 11th May 2012.
  • Keynote speaker in AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Program on “Soft Computing Application to Power System and Control MATLAB. Title of presentation is “Recent Advances on Wind and Solar Energy Technology,” at Aditya Institite of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh, India, 28th April 2012.
  • Invited as guest of honor and speaker in UGC Sponsored National seminar on “Right to Information: A step towards good governance,” at Department of Political Science, Govt. women’s college, Gardanibagh, Patna-2, India, 17th March 2012.
  • Invited as guest of honor and speaker in National Workshop on Modeling Simulation and Analysis of Power Electronics Circuit System,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Geetanjali Institute Of Technical Studies, Udaipur, Rajsthan, India, 18th February 2012.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Solar Power for Rural India" at Indian Institute of Business Management (IIBM), Patna, India on 12th February 2012.
  • Invited speaker in Seminar on "Nuclear Power at your service - An insight". Title of presentation is “Grid Integration of Nuclear Energy and Power Quality,” at Indian Institite of Technology Patna, IIT Patna on 10th Jan 2012 in association with NPCIL.
  • Invited speaker in First Bihar Regional Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development and the title of presentation is “High Efficient Solar Energy Power System for Bihar Green Energy Harvesting Technology, IIT Patna, Bihar, India, and 30 June, 2011.
  • Invited speaker in Bihar Science Conference and the title of presentation is “High Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting System for Bihar Green Energy Initiative,” L. S. College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, and February, 2011.
  • Keynote speaker in a workshop on Emerging Trends in Power Electronics Drives and Technology (ETPEDS-2010). Title of presentation is “Recent Advancement on Multilevel Converter Technologies in High Power Industrial Application" at Aditya Institite of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh, India, 9th December 2010.
  • Invited as session chair at IEEE-POWER INDIA- PEDES 2010, Session Title: Multilevel Inverters, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Delhi, India, 21-23 December 2010.
  • Invited lecture on “Green Energy Technology: Absolutely Wireless" at National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Berhampur, Ganjam, Orissa, India, 20th December 2010.
  • Keynote speaker in a workshop on Emerging Trends in Power Electronics Drives and Technology (ETPEDS-2010). Title of presentation is “Recent Advancement on Multilevel Converter Technologies in High Power Industrial Application" at Aditya Institite of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh, India, 9th December 2010.
  • Invited as session chair at International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES 2010)”, Session Title: Electrical Drives, MNNIT, Allahabad, India, November 29- December 01, 2010.
  • Keynote speaker in a workshop on Technology Upgradation of GLS Lamp Cluster Patna City. Title of presentation is "CFL Technology" and "Light of Tomorrow" at Patna City organised by Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Development, Govt. of India and Bihar Bulb Manufacturer Association,Patna City, India, March 2010.
  • Delivered the lecture entitled "A Utility Friendly High Performance Multilevel Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive System" at Sri Venkateswar Institute of Technology, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India, December 2009.
  • Delivered the lecture entitled "Multilevel Converter Application to Electric Drives" at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA, and January 2009
  • Delivered the lecture entitled "Design of Medium Voltage High Power Converters and Data Acquisition Systems" at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA, and October 2008.
  • Delivered the lecture entitled "Utility Friendly High Power Converter for Traction Motor Drive" at Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2007, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • Delivered the conference lecture entitled "Describing Function Analysis and Experimental Investigation of a High Power Utility Friendly AC-DC Converter System" at IEEE-IECON’ 06, Paris, France, November 7-10, 2006, Paris, France.
  • Delivered the lecture entitled "Power Electronics Technology" at Jaganatha Institute of Technology and Management, Parlakhemundi, October 2006, Orissa, India.
  • Delivered an invited lecture on "Dynamic Simulation of Power Electronics and Electric Drives using SIMULINK" in Quality Improvement Program sponsored Staff Development Program on MATLAB Application to Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2006, India.
  • Delivered an invited lecture "Power Electronics Applications using SIMULINK" in SIDBI sponsored Student Development Programme on MATLAB Application to Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2006, India.
  • Chief Guest and Keynote speaker in National Conference on “Advanced Computing Techniques and Applications(NCACTA-2012)". Title of presentation is “Wireless Power Transfer: The Next Generation Power Transmission System” at Roland Institute of Technology, Berhampur, Orissa, India, 1st December 2012.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Wireless Power Transfer: The Next Generation Power Transmission System" at Orissa School of Mining Engineering (OSME), Keonjhor, Odisha, India on 11th May 2012.
  • Keynote speaker in AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Program on “Soft Computing Application to Power System and Control MATLAB. Title of presentation is “Recent Advances on Wind and Solar Energy Technology,” at Aditya Institite of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh, India, 28th April 2012.
  • Invited as guest of honor and speaker in UGC Sponsored National seminar on “Right to Information: A step towards good governance,” at Department of Political Science, Govt. women’s college, Gardanibagh, Patna-2, India, 17th March 2012.
  • Invited as guest of honor and speaker in National Workshop on Modeling Simulation and Analysis of Power Electronics Circuit System,” at
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Geetanjali Institute Of Technical Studies, Udaipur, Rajsthan, India, 18th February 2012.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Solar Power for Rural India" at Indian Institute of Business Management (IIBM), Patna, India on 12th February 2012.
  • Invited speaker in Seminar on "Nuclear Power at your service - An insight".  Title of presentation is “Grid Integration of Nuclear Energy
    and Power Quality,” at Indian Institite of Technology Patna, IIT Patna on 10th Jan 2012 in association with NPCIL.
  • Invited speaker in First Bihar Regional Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development and the title of presentation is
    “High Efficient Solar Energy Power System for Bihar Green Energy Harvesting Technology, IIT Patna, Bihar, India, and 30 June, 2011.
  • Invited speaker in Bihar Science Conference and the title of presentation is “High Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting System for Bihar
    Green Energy Initiative,” L. S. College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, and February, 2011.
  • Keynote speaker in a workshop on Emerging Trends in Power Electronics Drives and Technology (ETPEDS-2010). Title of presentation is “Recent Advancement on Multilevel Converter Technologies in High Power Industrial Application" at Aditya Institite of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh, India, 9th December 2010.
Publications :
  • Book:
    Vinod Kumar Yadav, Ranjan Kumar Behera, Dheeraj Joshi, and Ramesh Bansal, “Power Electronics, Drives and Advanced Applications,” CRC Press, April 17, 2020, Boca Raton, USA
Journal Papers:
  • U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra, R. K. Behera, “Space Vector PWM-Based DTC Scheme with Reduced Common Mode Voltage for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, (Submitted).
  • B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, R. K. Behera, “Improved Virtual Vector Based DTC with Common Mode Voltage Elimination for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive at Wide Speed Range,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, (Submitted).
  • J. K. SINGH, R. K. Behera, “An Improved Hysteresis Current Controller for Grid-Connected Inverter System to Address Power Quality Issues at Reduced Switching Frequency,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, (Submitted).
  • Prashant Kumar, Devara Vijaya Bhaskar, Abdul R. Beig, Utkal Ranjan Muduli, and Ranjan Kumar Behera, “Iron loss modelling with sensorless predictive control of PMBLDC motor drive for electricvehicle application,” in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, Print ISSN: 2332-7782, Online ISSN: 2332-7782 (Accepted).
  • U. R. Muduli, A. R. Beig, K. A. Jaafari, J. Y. Alsawalhi and R. K. Behera, "Interrupt Free Operation of Dual Motor Four-Wheel Drive Electric Vehicle Under Inverter Failure," in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, doi: 10.1109/TTE.2020.2997354.
  • M. J. Akhtar and R. K. Behera, "Space Vector Modulation for Distributed Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive for Electric Vehicle Application," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2020.2968942.
  • B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli and R. K. Behera, "An Improved Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive Based on Virtual Vectors Assessment," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2992018.
  • B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli and R. K. Behera, "Performance Comparison of Five-Phase Three-Level NPC to Five-Phase Two-Level VSI," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 3767-3775, July-Aug. 2020.
  • S. Sharma, V. Verma and R. K. Behera, “Real Time Implementation of Shunt Active Power Filter with Reduced Sensors”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (accepted).
  • O. S. Mahapatra, V. Bharati, and R. K. Behera, “ Design and Implementation of Zigbee-based Smart Home Monitoring System" IEEE Internet of Things Journal (submitted).
  • J. Akhtar and R. K. Behera, “Optimal design of stator and rotor slot of induction motor for electric vehicle applications,” IET Electrical Systems in Transportation, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2019, p. 35 – 43.
  • R. K. Behera and R. Bansal, “Bidirectional Power Converter for Solar Grid Interface Applications: An Experimental,” International Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 46, No. 9, pp. 997–1005, 2018.
  • S. Payami, R. K Behera, and A. Iqbal, “DTC of Three-Level NPC Inverter fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive with Novel Neutral Point Voltage Balancing Scheme,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 1487-1500, Feb. 2018.
  • S. Payami, and R. K Behera "An Improved DTC Technique for Low Speed Operation of a Five-Phase Induction Motor" Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 3513, May 2017.
  • S. Payami, R. K Behera, A. Iqbal and R. Al-ammari, “Common mode voltage and vibration mitigation of a five-phase three-level NPC inverter fed induction motor drive system,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol-PP, Issue-99, pp. 1, March 2014.
  • A. Iqbal, S. Payami, M. Saleh, A. A. Abdallah, R. K. Behera, S. Moinoddine, “Five-phase AC/DC/AC Converter with PWM Rectifier,” Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (Accepted).
  • R. K. Behera, S. P. Das and O. Ojo, “A Utility Friendly Three-level NPC Converter-fed High Performance Induction Motor Drive,” IET Power
    Electronics, vol. 5, issue 7, pp. 1196-1203, August 2012.
  • R. K. Behera and S. P. Das, “Analysis and Experimental Investigation for Switching Frequency Characterization of a Three-level AC-DC Converter using Frequency Domain Approach,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 4, issue 8, pp. 936-942, September 2011.
  • R. K. Behera, and S. Behera, “Design, simulation and experimental realization of nonlinear controller for GSC of DFIG system,” International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology,  vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 96-103, Spring 2011.
  • R. K. Behera, “High Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting System for Bihar Green Energy Initiative,” Manthan, International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovation, vol. 12, June 2011, pp. 25-28.
  • R. K. Behera and W. Gao, “Design and Simulation of nonlinear controller for grid connected doubly-fed induction generator,” International Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology, vol. 2, Issue III, July 2011.
  • Ranjan K. Behera and S. P. Das, “"Multilevel Converters Fed Induction Motor Drive for Industrial and Traction Drive," IEEE Potential, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 28-32, December 2010.
  • R. K. Behera and W. Gao, “A Novel Controller Design for Grid Side Converter of DFIG for Wind Power Interface: An Experimental Investigation,” International Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor & Francis, vol. 38, No. 6, December 2010, pp. 1531-1545.
  • R. K. Behera and S. P. Das, “Analysis and Experimental Investigation for Switching Frequency Characterization of a Three-level AC-DC Converter using Frequency Domain Approach,” (Accepted to IET Journal of Power Electronics).
  • R. K. Behera and S. P. Das, “Improved direct torque control of induction motor with dither injection,” Sadhana Journal, vol. 33, part. 5, October 2008, pp. 537-550.

List of Papers Presented in Conferences:
  • Chikondra, U. R. Muduli and R. K. Behera, “Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant Direct Torque Control for Five-Phase Three-Level NPC VSI fed Induction Motor Drive,” in Proceedings of PEDES’20, Accepted 16-19 December 2020, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
  • S. Prakash, J. Kumar and R. K. Behera, “Lyapunov Function Based Control Strategy for Single-Phase Grid-Connected PV system with LCL filter,” in Proceedings of PEDES’20, Accepted 16-19 December 2020, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
  • U. R. Muduli and R. K. Behera, “A Modified High Gain Boost TNPC Inverter with Neutral Point Balancing for Three-Phase Induction Motor Driven Electric Vehicle,” in Proceedings of PEDES’20, Accepted 16-19 December 2020, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
  • U. R. Muduli, Chikondra and R. K. Behera, “Continuous and Discontinuous SVPWM with Switching Loss Control for Five-Phase Two-Level VSI fed Induction Motor Drive,” in Proceedings of PEDES’20, Accepted 16-19 December 2020, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
  • K. VVSR Chowdary, K. Kumar, R. K. Behera, S. Banerjee,“Load Independent Characteristics of Dynamic Wireless Charging System Through Higher Order Compensation,” in Proceedings of PEDES’20, Accepted 16-19 December 2020, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
  • S. Sneha, R. Kumar and R. K. Behera, “A Low Cost Smart Solar DC Nano-grid for Isolated Rural Electrification: Cyber Physical System Design and Implementation,” in Proceedings of ICMIB 2020, 19-20 September 2020, IGIT Sarang, India,
  • Nitika, S. Kumari, V. Kumar and R. K. Behera, “Solar Powered Smart Home Design with IoT,” in Proceedings of IEEE-HYDCON 2020. Hyderabad.
  • S. Behera, B. Kumar, R. Behera, B. P. Panigrahi, R. K. Behera and D. P. Bagarty, “Regulated Soft-Switching Power Supply Using Buck-Boost Converter,” in Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Smart Power System and Sustainable Energy, (CISPSSE 2020), GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING KEONJHAR-758002, ODISHA, INDIA, 29-31 July 2020, (Best Paper Award)
  • R. K. Behera, B. Chikondra, P. Sanjeevikumar, Z. Leonowicz and D. W. Gao, "Implementation of a High Power PMSG for Wind Power Interface using TLNPC Converter," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe), Madrid, Spain, 2020, pp. 1-6,
  • P. Kumar, D. V. Bhaskar, R. K. Behera and U. Muduli, “Novel closed loop speed control of permanent magnet brushless dc motor drive,” in Proceedings of IEEE ICIT 2020, Bonus Aries, Argentina, February 26-28, 2020, pp. 1.
  • K. Kumar and R. K. Behera, “Loss Assessment of a 3.3 kW Integrated Charger for Electric Vehicles using GaN Semiconductor Devices,” in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2020), from 0-4 January 2020,Cochi, Kerla.
  • V. V. S. R. C. Kantipudi, K. Kumar, R. K. Behera and S. Banerjee, “Overview and Analysis of Various Coil Structures for Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles,” in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2020), from 0-4 January 2020,Cochi, Kerla
  • C. Bheemaiah, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, “Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for an Inverter-Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive with an Open-Phase Fault,” 2019 21st European Conference Power Electronics Application (EPE 19 ECCE Europe), Italy pp. P.1 – P.10, 2019.
  • C. Bheemaiah, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, “Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Five-phase Three-Level NPC Inverter-fed induction Motor Drive with an Open-Phase Fault,” 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore USA (presented).
  • C. Bheemaiah, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, “An Improved DTC Technique for Three-Level NPC VSI Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive to eliminate Common-Mode Voltage” 2019 IEEE National Power Electronics Conference, Trichy. (Accepted).
  • A. Ahmad, S. Prakash, R. K. Behera, Sanjay Kumar,“ Solar PV Enabled Grid-Interactive Based Microgrid for Short and Medium Transmission Lines,” in Proceedings of NPEC 19, 14-16 December 2019, NIT Tiruchirapalli, India, pp. 1-6
  • J. K. Singh and R. K. Behera, “A Comparative Study on HCC Method for Grid-Connected LCL Filter with Active Damping,” 2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'19 ECCE Europe), Genova, Italy 2019, pp. P.1-P.10.
  • S. Prakash, J. K. Singh, R. K. Behera and A. Mondal, “ Comprehensive Analysis of SOGI-PLL Based Algorithms for Single-Phase System ,” 2019 National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Tiruchirappalli, 2019. (Accepted)
  • U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, “Constant Switching Frequency DTC SVPWM with Reduced Common Mode Voltage for Two Level Five Phase Induction Motor Drives,” in Proceedings of PEDES’18, 18-21 December 2018, IIT Madras, India, pp. 1-6.
  • R. Kumar, and R. K. Behera, “Controller Gain Impact on Islanded DC Microgrid Stability with Constant Power Load,” in Proceedings of PEDES’18, 18-21 December 2018, IIT Madras, India, pp. 1-6.
  • J. Kumar and R. K. Behera, “Hysteresis Current Controllers for Grid Connected Inverter: Review and Experimental Implementation,” in Proceedings of PEDES’18, 18-21 December 2018, IIT Madras, India, pp. 1-6.
  • B. Chikondra and R. K. Behera, “Comparison of Five-phase Three-level NPC to Five-phase Two-level Voltage Source Inverter,” in Proceedings of PEDES’18, 18-21 December 2018, IIT Madras, India, pp. 1-6.
  • R. Kumar, and R. K. Behera, “A Low Cost Distributed Solar DC Nanogrid: Design and Deployment with Remote Monitoring Unit,” in Proceedings of NPSC’18, 14-16 December 2018, NIT Tiruchirapalli, India, pp. 1-6.
  • A. Dash, R. K. Behera, D. P. Bagarty and P. K. Hota, “ A Novel Method for Synchronization with Unbalanced Grid: An Experimental Investigation,” in Proceedings of NPSC’18, 14-16 December 2018, NIT Tiruchirapalli, India, pp. 1-6..
  • P. Kumar, R. K. Behera and D. V. Bhaskar, “Novel closed loop speed control of permanent magnet brushless dc motor drive,” in Proceedings of ICSESP’ 2018, C. V. Raman College of Engineering Bhubaneswar, India, March 28-30, 2018, pp. 1.
  • R. K. Behera, Rustam Kumar, Srirama Murthy Bellala, P. Raviteja, “Analysis of Electric Vehicle Stability Effectiveness on Wheel Force with BLDC Motor Drive,” Proceedings of IEEE 1st International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESES), 30 Jan. – 02 Feb. 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand
  • M. J. Akhtar and R. K. Behera, "An analytical design of an induction motor for electric vehicle application," 2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG 2018), Doha, 2018, pp. 1-6.
  • R. K. Behera and S. K. Parida, “PMSG Based Wind Power Generation for an Isolated Irrigation System with Inbuilt Frequency Regulation Capability,” in Proceedings of ICPS’17, College of Engineering Pune, India, December 21-23, 2017, pp. 21-26
  • K. B. Sai Kiran, M. Kumari, O. Ojo, R. K. Behera, Atif Iqbal, “Analysis and Experimental Verification of Three-coil Inductive Resonant Coupled Wireless Power Transfer System,” in the proceedings of National Power Electronics Conferences (NPEC’17), College of Engineering Pune, India, 18-20 December 2017.
  • Utkal Ranjan Muduli, Ranjan Kumar Behera, “Electrical Modeling and Characteristics Investigation of Mechanical Shaft Supported by Ball Bearing of a Three-phase induction Motor,” in Proceedings of NSRD’17, 12-13 December 2017, IIT Patna, India, pp. 1-6.
  • Md. Junaid Akhtar, Ranjan Kr. Behera, “Stability Analysis of Induction Motor for Variable Speed Application,” in Proceedings of NSRD’17, 12-13 December 2017, IIT Patna, India, pp. 1-6.
  • R. K. Behera, “Multiple Feedback Control and Phase Plane Analysis of AC-DC Converter System,” in Proceedings of PEDES’16, 14-17 December 2016, Trivandrum, India, pp. 1-6.
  • P. Chandra Babu Naidu, S.S. Dash, R. K. Behera, C. Subramani, R. Bayindir, “Analysis and experimental investigation for grid-connected 10 kw solar pv system in distribution networks,” in the proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA 2016), Birmingham, United Kingdom, 20 – 23 November 2016.
  • R. K. Behera, and O. Ojo, “Modeling and Control of DAB Converter for Solar Micro-grid Application,” in Proceedings of IEEE PESA 2015, Hong Kong Polytech. University, Hong Kong, 15-17 Dec 2015, pp. 1-6.
  • Abhay Kumar, M A Hasan, Md. Junaid Akhtar, S.K. Parida, R.K. Behera, “Design Optimization of Linear Induction Motor,” in Proceedings of IEEE PESA 2015, Hong Kong Polytech. University, Hong Kong, 15-17 Dec 2015, pp. 1-6.
  • Md. J. Akhtar,R. K. Behera, S. K. Parida, “Propulsion System Design of Electric Vehicle,” in proceedings of IEEE PESA-2015, Hong Kong Polytech. University, Hong Kong, 15-17 Dec 2015.
  • R. K. Behera, and O. Ojo, “Modeling, Control and Experimental Realization of a 10 kW Grid Connected PV Power System,” in Proceedings of PEDES’14, IIT Bombay, India, December 15-19, 2014, pp. 1-6.
  • K. B. Sai Kiran, S. Brahma, S. K. Parida, and R. K. Behera, “Analysis of Inductive Resonant Coupled WPT System using Reflected Load Theory,” in Proceedings of PEDES’14, IIT Bombay, India, December 15-19, 2014, pp. 1-6.
  • R. K. Behera and S. K. Parida, “DC Microgrid Management Using Power Electronics Converters”, NPSC, 18-20 Dec 2014, IIT Gowhati.
  • Md. J. Akhtar, R. K. Behera, S. K. Parida, “Optimized Rotor Slot Shape for Squirrel Cage Induction Motor in Electric Propulsion Application”, IICPE, 08-10 Dec 2014, NIT Kurukshetra.
  • R. Prakash, A. Junaid, R. K. Behera, and S. K. Parida, “Design of a Squirrel Cage Induction Motor for Electric Propulsion System,” in proceedings of Third International Conference on advances in control and optimization of dynamical systems (ACODS-2014), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, 13-15 March 2014.
  • R. K. Behera, M. Kumari and S. K. Parida, “Design of a Two Resonating Coil WPT System for Portable Electronics Loads,” Accepted in National Power Electronics Conferences (NPEC’13), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, 21-23 December 2014.
  • S. Payami, R. K. Behera, and A. Iqbal, “Common Mode Voltage Elimination for Three- Level Five-Phase Neutral Point Clamped Inverter,” in Proceedings of IEEE-IECON’ 13, Vienna, Austria, November 10-13, 2013, pp. 1-6.
  • R. K. Goyal, U. Gautam and R. K. Behera, “A Novel Design of Magnetically Coupled Circuits for Wireless Power Transfer with Improved
    Waveforms,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2013), Cape Town, South Africa, February 25-27, 2013.
  • A. Iqbal, S. Payami, M. Saleh, A. Anad  and R. K. Behera, “ Analysis and control of five phase AC/DC/AC converter with active rectifier” in
    Proceedings of 22nd Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), 2012 (IEEE), Bali Indonesia, 2012.
  • A. Iqbal, S. Payami, R.K. Behera, A. A. Abdallah and H. Abu-Rub, “Analysis of a field oriented controlled five-phase motor drive with
    active front end converter”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference Power and Energy 2012, Malasia.
  • R. K. Behera, and S. P. Das, “High Performance Induction Motor Drive: A Dither Injection Technique,” in Proceedings of IEEE International
    Conference on Energy, Automation and Signal (ICEAS-2011), SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India, December 28-30, 2011.
  • R. K. Behera, S. P. Das and W. Gao, “High Power Induction Motor Drive for Public Electric Transportation System,” in Proceedings of Centenary Conference, Electrical Engineering (CCEE’11), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 14-17, 2011.
  • R. K. Behera and S. P. Das, “Analysis and Experimental Investigation of a Current Controlled AC-DC Converter System,” in Proceedings of National Power Electronics Conferences (NPEC’11), Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, India, December 19 - 22, 2011. (Awarded Best Research Paper). 
  • R. K. Behera, “High Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting System for Bihar Green Energy Initiative,” in Proceedings of Bihar Science Conference, L. S. College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, February 11-13, 2011.
  • R. K. Behera, and S. P. Das, “A Forced Switching Technique for Current Controlled Three-level NPC AC-DC Converter,” Proceedings  of IEEE-PEDES 2010-Power India, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, December 21-23, 2010.
  • R. K. Behera, and S. P. Das, “Space Vector Modulation for a Three-level NPC ac-dc Converter System: An Experimental Investigation,” in Proceedings  of  IEEE-ICPCES 2010, MNNIT,  Allahabad, India, November 29- December 01, 2010.
  • R. K. Behera, S. K. Parida, S. Behera and S. P. Das, “Implementation of a Reduced Order Stator-Flux Observer for Three Level NPC Inverter-Fed Induction Motor Drive,” in Proceedings  of  IEEE-IPEC 2010, Suntech Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Singapore, October 27-29, 2010, pp. 95-101.
  • R. K. Behera, S. K. Parida and W. Gao, “Performance Improvement of a  Wind Power Distribution Station using a Dynamic Voltage Restorer,” in Proceedings  of North American Power Symposium (NAPS-2010),  The University of Texas, Arlington, USA, September 26-28, 2010, pp. 51-57.
  • R. K. Behera and W. Gao, “Low Voltage Ride-through and Internal Performance Improvement of a Grid Connected DFIG System Using STATCOM,” in Proceedings  of  ICPS’09, Indian Institute of Technology Kahragpur, India, December 27-29, 2009, pp. 21-26.
  • R. K. Behera and W. Gao, “Simulation Study of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Direct Drive Wind Power Generator using Three Level NPC Converter System,” IEEE Symposium on Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications (PEMWA), June 24-26, 2009, Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • R. K. Behera and W. Gao, “A Novel Controller Design for Grid Side Converter of DFIG for Wind Power Interface (Accepted for presentation in Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems & Power Electronics in Emerging Economies, April 2009, Chennai, India, pp. 45-50.
  • R. K. Behera and W. Gao, “Design and Simulation of Nonlinear Controller for Grid Connected Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (Accepted for presentation in Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems & Power Electronics in Emerging Economies, April 2009 Chennai, India, pp. 102-107.
  • T. V. Dixit, R. K. Behera, and S. P. Das, “Design of high power three-level utility friendly converter for power quality applications,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Power System Analysis, Control and Optimisation, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, March 13-15, 2008, pp. 413-419.
  • R. K. Behera and S. P. Das, “Improved direct torque control of induction motor with dither injection,” in Proceedings of National Power Electronics Conferences (NPEC07), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 17-19, 2007. (Awarded Best Research Paper Award).
  • R K. Behera, T.V. Dixit, and S. P. Das, “Describing function analysis and experimental investigation of a high power utility friendly AC-DC converter system,” in Proceedings of IEEE-IECON’ 06, Paris, France, November 7-10, 2006, pp. 2186 – 2191.
  • R. K. Behera and S. P. Das, “A utility friendly high power induction motor drive with direct torque and flux control,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, (ICIT 2006), Mumbai, India, December 15-17, 2006, pp. 1983-1988.
  • R. K. Behera, T. V. Dixit, G. Kiran, and S. P. Das, “Three-level inverter fed high performance induction motor drive system for high power application,” in Proceedings of Indian International Conference on Power Electronics, IICPE’06, Chennai, India, December 19-21, 2006, pp. 17-21.
  • R. K. Behera, T. V. Dixit, and S. P. Das, “Analysis of experimental investigation of various carrier-based modulation schemes for three level neutral point clamped inverter-fed induction Motor Drive,” in Proceedings  of PEDES06, Delhi, India, December 12-15, 2006, pp. 1-6.
  • R. K. Behera and S. P. Das,Three-level inverter-fed high performance induction motor drive system,” in  Proceedings of Recent Advances in Power, Signal Processing and Control(APSC2004), Rourkela, India, November 16-17, 2004, pp. 45-50.

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Administrative Responsibility:

Head of the Department (Chairman), Electrical Engineering, IIT Patna (Since, Jan 2016)

School Management committee (since 2017)

Member, House Allotment Committee, IIT Patna (Since 2015)

Professor in-charge, Electrical, IWD, IIT Patna (2009-2016).

Departmental PhD Coordinator (Electrical Engineering): (2014-15),

Professor In charge, Science and Technology Club, IIT Patna (2009-12).

Professor in-charge, Training and Placement, IIT Patna (2009-10)

Professor In charge Workshop Building (2011-13)


Invited:
  • Invited speaker in ATAL FDP. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar Applications,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bhilai, on 08th December 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “Recent trends in renewable energy sources and their integration to smart grid”. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar Applications,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, St. Peter's Engineering College (SPEC), Hyderabad, Telangana, on 01st December 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “Recent trends in renewable energy sources and their integration to smart grid”. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar and Wind Applications,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, St. Peter's Engineering College (SPEC), Hyderabad, Telangana, on 24th November 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “"Automation and Intelligent Control of Electrical systems -Phase-III”. Title of presentation is “High performance 3-phase and Multiphase Induction motor drives for traction applications,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Gudlavalleu, Andhra Pradesh, on 21st November 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “Emerging Trends in Renewable Energy Technologies (ETRET 2020)”. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar and Wind Applications,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Arunachal Pradesh on 18th November 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “Smart Micro Grid and its Future Trends”. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar and Wind Applications,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vizianagaram on 17th November 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “Smart Micro Grid and its Future Trends”. Title of presentation is “Smart Energy Systems,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vizianagaram on 17th November 2020.
  • Invited speaker in ATAL Faculty Development Program. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar and Wind Applications,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, GANDHI INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY, Bhubaneswar, Khurda on 10th November 2020.
  • Chief Guest and Invited speaker in ATAL Faculty Development Program. Title of presentation is “Smart Energy Systems,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, GANDHI INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY, Bhubaneswar, Khurda on 9th November 2020.
  • Invited speaker in ATAL Faculty Development Program. Title of presentation is “Smart Energy Systems,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and Science, Indore (M.P.) on 4th November 2020.
  • Invited speaker in online workshop on “Recent Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering”. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar Applications,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Gaya, Bihar, on 13th October 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “Recent trends in renewable energy sources and their integration to smart grid”. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar and Wind Applications,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, St. Peter's Engineering College (SPEC), Hyderabad, Telangana, on 13th October 2020.
  • Invited Guest speaker for institute lecture. Title of presentation is “Three-phase/Multiphase Industrial motor drives,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, GH Raisoni College of Engineering Nagpur, on 17th October 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “Recent Development and Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Green Energy Technologies and Smart Grids – Series C”. Title of presentation is “Design and Fabrication of Power Electronics Circuits,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, B. V. Raju Institute of Technology, Vishnupur, Narsapur, Medak District – 502313, Telangana on 18th October 2020.
  • Invited speaker in FDP on “Internet of Things (IoT)”. Title of presentation is “Story of IoT,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Rajkiya Engineering College Sonbhadra UP (India), on 05th October 2020.
  • Invited speaker in Faculty Development Program on Recent Research Advances in Electrical Engineering (RRAEE-2020). Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, GCET Jammu and UIET Panjab University Chandigarh on 28th September 2020.
  • Invited speaker in online Faculty Development Program on, “Recent Trends in Power Electronics – Research Scope and Challenges,”. Title of presentation is “Three-phase/Multiphase Industrial motor drives,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal Mangaluru, Karnataka - 575 025, India on 26th September 2020.
  • Invited speaker in Short-term course. Title of presentation is “Smart Energy Systems,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur, Chhattisgarh, INDIA on 23rd September 2020.
  • Invited speaker in Short-term course. Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar Applications,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur, Chhattisgarh, INDIA on 23rd September 2020.
  • Invited speaker in Faculty Development Program on The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Data Science and IoT Applications (RAIDIA-2020). Title of presentation is “Story of IoT,” at Department of Electronics Engineering, IGIT Saranga, Orissa on 10th September 2020.
  • Guest of Honor and Invited speaker in TEQIP‐ IIBPUT, ODISHA (ATU) Sponsored Faculty Development Program on Solar Power and its Implementation, Economical Implications in Indian Scenario (SPIEIIS–2020). Title of presentation is “Advanced Power Converter Control for Solar Applications,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, CAPGS, BPUT in association with VTU, AKU on 01st September 2020.
  • Invited speaker in online Faculty Development Program on Technology Managemen. Title of presentation is “Story of IoT,” at Patna Women’s College, Patna Bihar on 21st September 2020.
  • Invited speaker in online Faculty Development Program on “Renewable Power Generation, Control and Grid Integration (RPGCGI-2020)”. Title of presentation is “Smart Microgrid System Design and Integration,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, IGIT Saranga, Orissa on 10th August 2020.
  • Invited speaker in AICTE sponsored short term training program (STTP) on “"Automation and Intelligent Control of Electrical systems -Phase-I”. Title of presentation is “Smart Energy System,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Gudlavalleu, Andhra Pradesh, on 6th August 2020.
  • Invited speaker for CMRIT is a global affiliate of Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Title of presentation is “'How to Deal with Reverses of life',” at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore, on 20th July 2020.
  • Invited speaker in International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Electrical and Electronic Technologies (ICEFEET -2020)”. Title of presentation is “Dual Motor drives for EV,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Patna, on 10th July 2020.
  • Invited speaker in Mind Management. Title of presentation is “MIND SECRET,” at Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vizianagaram on 31st May 2020.
  • Invited speaker for new Research. Title of presentation is “Medical Drives,” at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Raja Rajeswari College of Engineering, Bengaluru, on 16th May 2020.
  • Invited speaker in ATAL FDP”. Title of presentation is “Application of IoT for Solar tree, Smart home and Transmission line,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Bhopal, on 04th May 2020.
  • Guest lecture and PhD Talk. Title of presentation is “Design of Electric Vehicles,” at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Sriperumbudur - 602 117, on 16th December 2019.
  • Invited speaker in Faculty Development Program. Title of presentation is “Wide Band Gap Devices and IoT,” at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Saranga, Orissa, India, 19 and 20 December 2019.
  • Invited speaker in Faculty Development Program. Title of presentation is “Wide Band Gap Devices and IoT,” at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Saranga, Orissa, India, 19 and 20 December 2019.
  • Invited speaker in PhD award ceremony. Title of presentation is “Design of Electric Vehicle” at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering,(AUTONOMOUS - Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai), Sriperumbudur tk- 602 117, India, 16th December 2019.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program on "Smart Power System". Title of presentation is “Solar Tree Design,” at Parla Maharaja College of Engineering, Berhampur, Orissa, India, 6th December 2019.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program. Title of presentation is “on "Smart Power Transmission System", at National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura, India, 3rd December 2020.
  • Keynote Speaker in the International Conference RECCON2019. Title of presentation is “Control of High Efficient Solar and Wind Power Converters,” at at Rajkiya Engineering College, Ambedkarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India, on 29th of November 2019.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development 2nd Short Term Training Program on "Power Electronics for Green Energy ". Title of presentation is “Control of High Efficient Solar and Wind Power Converters,” at National Institute of Technology, Raipur Cattishgarh , India, 8th March 2019.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program on "Advances in Energy and Control Systems". Title of presentation is “Control of High Efficient Solar and Wind Power Converters,” at Gaya College of Engineering, Gaya Bihar, India, 7th February 2019.
  • Invited for motivational speaker in a workshop, New Govt Polytechnic,Patna-13. The title of the talk, “Timeless Science,” on 07th December 2018.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program on " Recent Advances and Industrial Applications of Power Electronics Converters and Electrical Machines". Title of presentation is “Control of Electrical Drives for EV/HEV and motors for EV/HEV,” at Department of Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, 25th October 2018.
  • Invited as guest of honour and keynote address at National Conference on Recent Advanced trends in Electrical, Electronics & Information Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering of Government College of engineering, Keonjhar, Odisha. The title of the talk, “High Performance Induction Motor Drives,” on 29th October 2018.
  • Invited for motivational speaker at Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri-Garhwal, Uttara Khand, India. The title of the talk, “The Timeless Science,” on 11th September 2018.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program on " Smart Grid Technology and Its Application". Title of presentation is “Industrial Cyber Physical System Technology and Applications,” Electrical Engineering Department, Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri-Garhwal, Uttara Khand, India, on 10 September 2018.
  • Invited for motivational speaker at National Institute of Technology Patna. The title of the talk, “The Timeless Science,” on 28th Aug. 2018.
  • Invited lecture in induction program for first year students at IIT Patna. The title of the talk, “The Timeless Science,” on 29 July 2018 .
  • Invited lecture in "AI & IoT course" at IIT Kanpur. The title of the talk, “Solar Tree Design and Implementation,” and “Smart Building,” on 6-7 June 2018 .
  • Invited talk in a short term course on Modelling and Simulation of Renewable Energy Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Conducted by MNNIT Allahabad and NITTR Chandigarh. The titles of talk is, “ PMSG Based Wind Power Modeling, Generation, and Control " and second talk on " Inbuilt Frequency Regulation Capability in Wind Generation System" on 30th June, 2018.
  • Invited as keynote speaker in National Conference on Advanced Computing Techniques and Applications, B V C Engineering College, Odalarevu (AUTONOMOUS), Andhra Pradesh. The title of talk, “Wireless Power Transfer,” on 13 July 2018.
  • Invited speaker in a One Week National level Faculty Development Programe, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The title of the program is, “Industrial Cyber Physical System Technology and Applications,” on 21st April 2018.
  • Invited for motivational speaker in a TEQIP III Programe, Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. The title of the talk, “Timeless Science: Bhagavad Gita,” on 19th January 2018.
  • Invited speaker in a Six Day National level Faculty Development Programe, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The title of the program is, “Electrical Power Systems with Emphasis on MATLAB,” on 5th December 2017.
  • Invited speaker in international workshop on “MATLAB/Simulink and its engineering applications’’ on 15 July 2017 at Millia Institute of Technology, Rambagh, Purnea, Bihar, (India).
  • Invited speaker on Smart Grid, Short Term Course on “Integration of Sustainable Energy Sources and Smart Grid (ISESSG)” from 20, March 2017; Department of EEE, BIT Mesra, Off-Campus Deoghar.
  • Delivered a keynote speaker on, “Multiphase Induction Motor Drives for Off Highway Applications,” in Joint International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems (ICAIECES-2017) & Power, Circuit and Information Technologies (ICPCIT-2017), 27-29th April 2017, will be held at Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science (MITS), Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh,INDIA.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Integrated Automatic Voltage Control of a High Efficient Solar Photovoltaic System" at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, 10th February 2017.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program on "Academia Industry Interaction". Title of presentation is, “High performance multi phase induction motor drive,” National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar, India, 05th December 2016.
  • Deliver a seminar on “Proactive Leadership" at Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India, 5th February 2016.
  • Invited speaker in TEQIP Sponsored Faculty Development Program on "Smart Grid Technology". Title of presentation is “Smart Grid Technology and Solar/Wind Power Converters,” Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri-Garhwal, Uttara Khand, India, 28th and 29th October 2015.
  • Invited speaker in First Bihar Regional Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development and the title of presentation is “High Efficient Solar Energy Power System for Bihar Green Energy Harvesting Technology, IIT Patna, Bihar, India, and 30 June, 2011.
  • Invited speaker in Bihar Science Conference and the title of presentation is “High Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting System for Bihar Green Energy Initiative,” L. S. College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, and February, 2011.
  • Keynote speaker in a workshop on Emerging Trends in Power Electronics Drives and Technology (ETPEDS-2010). Title of presentation is “Recent Advancement on Multilevel Converter Technologies in High Power Industrial Application" at Aditya Institite of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh, India, 9th December 2010.
  • Invited lecture on “Green Energy Technology: Absolutely Wireless" at National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Berhampur, Ganjam, Orissa, India, 20th December 2010.
  • Invited as session chair at International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES 2010)”, Session Title: Electrical Drives, MNNIT, Allahabad, India, November 29- December 01, 2010.
  • Invited as session chair at IEEE-POWER INDIA- PEDES 2010, Session Title: Multilevel Inverters, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Delhi, India, 21-23 December 2010.
  • Delivered the invited lecture entitled "Multilevel Converter Application to Electric Drives" in Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA, and January 2009.
  • Delivered the invited lecture entitled "Design of Medium Voltage High Power Converters and Data Acquisition Systems" in Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA, and October 2008.
  • Delivered the invited lecture entitled "A Utility Friendly Medium Voltage High Power Converters Systems" in the department of electrical engineering, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and October 2007.
  • Delivered the lecture entitled "Power Electronics Technology" in Jaganatha Institute of Technology and Management, Parlakhemundi, October 2006, Orissa, India.
  • Delivered an invited lecture on “Dynamic Simulation of Power Electronics and Electric Drives using SIMULINK” in Quality Improvement Program sponsored Staff Development Program on MATLAB Application to Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2006, India.
  • Delivered an invited lecture “Power Electronics Applications using SIMULINK” in SIDBI sponsored Student Development Programme on MATLAB Application to Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2006, India.

Sponsored Projects:
Sponsored Projects Undertaken/Consultant/Applied
Sponsoring Agency Title of the Project Period Whether
completed
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India Modeling, Design and Implementation of Induction Motor Drives for Propulsion Applications 2012-2014 Completed
Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India High Power AC Drives for Electric Locomotive and General Purpose off Highway Applications 2011-2014 Completed
Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India Integrated Automatic Voltage Control of a High Efficient Solar PV System 2013-2017 Completed
Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India Teaching Learning Centre for Internet-of-Things Smart Grid and Smart Building 2016 - 2021 Completed
Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Power, Government of India A software tool for planning and design of smart micro power grids 2017-2021 On going
Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India National Resource Centre on Internet of Things 2018-19 Completed
Rishabh Constructions Pvt. Ltd. Vetting of the electrical drawing of solar plant including cable, earthing and components for MES Birchgunj, PortBlair 2018 Completed

Patents and workshops organized:
Patent

An Improved Squirrel Cage Induction Motor With Enhanced Efficiency And Wide Range Of Operating Speed For Application In Electric Vehicle,Indian Patent Application No. 201631013398 of 18.04.2016 in the name of Indian Institute of Technology, Patna.

Artificial Light Power Generating Solar Panel System, Indian Patent Application No. 201941049772 A of 13/12/2019 in the name of Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jonnada, Denkada, Vizianagaram-535005, Andhra Pradesh and Indian Institute of Technology, Patna.


Conference

Convenor; National Symposium on Rotor Dynamics. NSRD 2017 at IIT Patna. December 12th to 13th, 2017


Workshop

Organized Workshop on "Nuclear Power at your service - An insight" being organised at IIT Patna on 10th Jan 2012 in association with NPCIL.

Organized short term course on "Recent Advances in Power Electronics for Smart Grid and Electrical Drives” from 3rd to 5th March, 2016.

Organized Teachers Training program on "Smart Grid: Cyber Physical Energy Systems (SGCPES), Teacher Learning center for Internet of Things; Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Patna, from 2nd to 8th December, 2016.

Organized One Week Teachers Training program on "Application of Embedded Systems to Internet of Things (AESIoT)”. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology (LIET), Vizianagaram, A.P under Teacher Learning center for Internet of Things; Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, from 16th to 21st April, 2018.

Organized One Week Teachers Training program on "Component and Applications of IOT CAIOT)" from 24th to 28th September,2018 under TLC, , Indian Institute of Technology Patna, from 24th to 28th September, 2018.