Specialisation:

Power System Engineering

Major Professional Contributions:

Major contributions include protection of transmission networks and microgrids and applications of synchrophasor technology in power systems:

1.      Developed adaptive and intelligent protection schemes for transmission system including development of back-up protection systems, enhancing 3rd zone operation.

2.      Contribution in microgrid protection, including development of adaptive and intelligent anti-islanding and fault protection schemes, enhancing protection system reliability.

3.      Developed PMU algorithms complying to C37.118 standard, which are capable of handling both P and M-class PMU requirements, tracking dynamic phasors in stressed environment.

4.      Developed wide area measurement system-based catastrophe predictor for dynamic security assessment of large power networks and wide-area controls with enhanced accuracy.

Some of the algorithms have been tested in field by utilities in developed countries and will play an important role in Indian utilities

Consultancy Areas:

Power and Energy Systems

Sector Associated With:

 Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited, (OPTCL), Odisha

Grid Corporation of Odisha Limited (GRIDCO), Odisha

Sectors Interested to Offer Service:

·       Power Sector

Other industries 

Professional Experience

·  Professor-School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubanedswar, Odisha, India (October 2022-till now)

·  Associate Professor- School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar,Odisha, India (April’2016- October 2022)

·  Assistant Professor - School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (April 2011-April 2016)

·  Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, School of Electrical Engineering, AALTO University Helsinki, Finland (1st June-15th July 2017);

·  Visiting Professor, Department of ECE, McGill University, Canada (15th May-15th July 2014)

·  Visiting Professor, Department of ECE, McGill University, Canada (21st May-20th July  2012)

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Rourkela, Odisha, India (September’ 2008- April’ 2011) 

Keywords

Power System Relaying and Protection, PMU and WAMs, Smart Grid