Sandeep Anand
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
@ Matheran, Aug 2022
Students Achievements / Awards
- IIT Bombay Racing Team received "Overall 1st in Formula Bharat Electric 2024" ‹ New ›
- Aditya Aman received "APEC'2024 Student Attendance Support" by APEC'24 conference at Long Beach, CA ‹ New ›
- Aniket Nadkarni, Avinash Narne, Devraj Panchal, Jenson Joseph, Prabhat Kumar, Priya, Tirth Patel, Tirth Meghani received "The Innovative Concept Award 2023" in IEEE International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC) -2023 at Hannover, Germany. ‹ New ›
- Anubrata Das received "POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) 2023" for his Ph.D thesis work. The award has been instituted by Power System Operation Company (POSOCO), New Delhi.
- Nachiketa Deshmukh and Arnab Sarkar received "APEC Student Attendance Support" By APEC’23 conference at Orlando Florida
- Arnab Sarkar received "Student Project Demonstration Travel Grant" by IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2022 in Detroit, USA
- Shyam A.B. received "Best Contributory Paper " in track Micro-Grid and Distribution System with co-authors: S.R. Sahoo, S. Anand, and J. M. Guerrero at 9th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS-2021), IIT Kharagpur
- Arnab Sarkar received 1st prize in Electrical Engineering domain in "“100 seconds” technical video competition 2021" organized by INAE Kanpur Chapter
- Arnab Sarkar received 3rd prize in "IEEE-IES Student and Young Professional Competition 2021" for his work titled "GaN Based Multiple Output Flyback Converter with Independently Controlled Outputs" by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
- Arnab Sarkar received "ECCE Student Grant" in in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) -2021, Canada
- Team comprising of Pankaj Kumar, Dibyojyoti Sinha, Arnab Sarkar (PG Mentor), Nachiketa Deshmukh (PG Mentor) et. al. recieved "The Ingenuity Award (3rd position)" in IEEE International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC), 2020
- Anubrata Das received "Dr. M. Ramamoorty Best Paper Award" in Power Electronics & Drives with co-authors: Efstratios Batzelis, S. Anand, and S. R. Sahoo at National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), 2020
- Pankaj Kumar received "Proficiency Prizes/Medal" in Electrical Engineering by IIT Kanpur in 2020
- Abhiram V.P. received "POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) 2020" for his M.Tech thesis work. The award has been instituted by Power System Operation Company (POSOCO), New Delhi.
- Team comprising of Parvraj Pachore and Nachiketa Deshmukh was "One of the University Challenge Winners" of the DST - Lockheed Martin - Tata Trusts India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) 2.0, 2019
- Parvraj Pachore won "2nd prize at Student’s Innovation Pavilion" at Gridtech-2019 organized by Power Grid in 2019
- Anubrata Das received "IEEE-ICIT Student Travel Scholarship" by IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology at Australia in 2019
- Pratik Deshmukh received "Cadence Silver Medal" for the best 2-year M. Tech. graduating student of CSE or EE departments by IIT Kanpur in 2018
- Pratik Deshmukh received "IEEE/PEDES'96 Award" for outstanding M.Tech graduating student in the area of Power Electronics and Drives for 2018 by IIT Kanpur.
- Anoop Atish Ingle received "POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) 2018" for his M.Tech thesis work. The award has been instituted by Power System Operation Company (POSOCO), New Delhi.
- Team of our students (Avinash Maguluri, Anup Anurag, Nachiketa Deshmukh and Abhinav Arya) have been selected as one of the University Challenge winners of the DST - Lockheed Martin - Tata Trusts India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) 2.0 for 2017. Their innovation is in the area of Solar PV Inverters.
- Saurav Roy Chaudhary received "POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) 2017" for his M.Tech thesis work. The award has been instituted by Power System Operation Company (POSOCO), New Delhi.
- Nikunj Agarwal received "IEEE/PEDES'96 Award" for outstanding M.Tech graduating student in the area of Power Electronics and Drives for 2016 by IIT Kanpur.
- Abhinav Arya received "IEEE/PEDES'96 Award" for outstanding M.Tech graduating student in the area of Power Electronics and Drives for 2015 by IIT Kanpur.
- Abhinav Arya received "IEEE-ICIT Student Travel Scholarship" for paticipation in IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology at Spain in 2015.
Students - Ph.D.
| S.No. | Name | Title of Thesis | Program | Year of Completion | Co-guide | Placement |
| 1 | Waseem Ahmad | Health Monitoring of AEC's for Power Electronic Applications | Ph.D. | 2018 | -- | NUS (Post-Doc), NIT Surathkal (Faculty) |
| 2 | Shirazul Islam | Stability Analysis and Control of AC and DC Microgrids with Constant Power Loads | Ph.D. | 2021 | Dr. S. R. Sahoo, IITK | Research Associate at Qatar University |
| 3 | Anubrata Das | Inverter Based Resource: Control Towards Grid Support Functionalities and Improved Reliability | M.Tech + Ph.D. | 2022 | Dr. S. R. Sahoo | Post-Doc at University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA |
| 4 | Shyam AB | Analyzing The Effect Of Data Exchange Among Secondary Controllers In Dc Microgrid | Ph.D. | June 2023 | Dr. S.R. Sahoo, IITK | Assistant Prof. at IIT BHU |
| 5 | Abhinav Arya | IGBT Reliability And Junction Temperature Estimation In Power Electronic Systems | Ph.D. | June 2023 | Dr. Amit Verma, IITK | Post-Doc at IIT Bombay |
| 6 | Nachiketa Deshmukh | Electronic capacitor for increased reliability (tentative) | M.Tech + Ph.D. | Thesis submitted | Dr. S.R. Sahoo, IITK | Varroc (Automotive Component Manufacturer) |
| 7 | Arnab Sarkar | Low-Power DC–DC Converters: Improving Power Density Using GaN Devices | Ph.D. | Thesis submitted | Dr. S.R. Sahoo, IITK | Jaguar Land Rover (Automotive) |
| 8 | Abhishek Chanekar | Reliability of power electronic circuits | Ph.D. | Ongoing | Dr. Amit Verma, IITK | |
| 9 | Aditya Aman | Reliability and Protection of SiC MOSFETs (tentative) | Ph.D. | Ongoing | Dr. Anant Agarwal (OSU) | |
| 10 | Priya Sinsinwar | Magnetics design for MW scale solar inverters (tentative) | Ph.D | ongoing | Dr. B.G. Fernandes | |
| 11 | Siva Prabhakar | EV Chargers (tentative) | Ph.D | ongoing | Dr. Shiladri Chakraborty | |
| 12 | Saurabh Singh | EV Motor Drive (tentative) | Ph.D | ongoing | Dr. K. Chatterjee | |
| 13 | Akash Gangwar | GaN based solar inverter (tentative) | Ph.D | ongoing | -- | |
| 14 | Nikhil Bharadwaj | Reliability of SiC based power converters (tentative) | Ph.D | ongoing | Dr. Anant Agarwal (OSU) |
Students - M.Tech.
| S.No. | Name | Title of Thesis | Program | Year of Completion | Co-guide | Placement |
| 1 | Shatakshi Sharma | Output Power Leveling of DFIG using Battery Energy Storage System | M.Tech | 2014 | Dr. S.N. Singh, IITK | Joined IITD for Ph.D |
| 2 | Amit Meena | Design And Development of Single Phase Dynamic Voltage Restorer | M.Tech | 2015 | -- | |
| 3 | Shyam Agarwal | Power Sharing in Low Voltage DC Microgrid Using Low Speed Communication | M.Tech | 2015 | -- | CPRI |
| 4 | Abhinav Arya | Online Health Monitoring of Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitors For Single Phase Grid Connected PV System | M.Tech | 2015 | -- | Ph.D.-IITK |
| 5 | Arun Singh | Online condition monitoring of discrete IGBT for Solar PV Inverter | B.Tech-M.Tech | 2016 | -- | Texas Instruments |
| 6 | Saurav Roy Chaudhary | Dynamic Voltage Restorer With Adaptive Active Filtering | M.Tech | 2016 | -- | ABB |
| 7 | Soumya Thomas | Cooperative Control for Low Voltage DC Microgrid | M.Tech | 2016 | Dr. S.R. Sahoo, IITK | Texas Instruments |
| 8 | Maguluri Avinash | High Efficiency Five Level Single-Phase Grid-Connected Transformer-Less Photovoltaic Inverter | M.Tech | 2016 | -- | Valeo |
| 9 | Nikunj Agarwal | Online Technique for Health Monitoring of Capacitor in Single Phase Solar Inverter | M.Tech | 2016 | -- | ONGC |
| 10 | Rajender Nune | Design and Development of GaN HEMT based DC-DC Converter | M.Tech | 2016 | Dr. Y. Chauhan, IITK | Qualcomm |
| 11 | Sathish Kumar | Estimation and Utilization of Aggregate Harmonic Load Model | MS(R) | 2017 | Dr. S. Chakrabarti, IITK | Tata Motors |
| 12 | Anoop Ingle | Quality Index Based Controller and Transient Analysis for DC Microgrid | M.Tech | 2017 | Dr. S.R. Sahoo, IITK | Intel |
| 13 | P Nandha Kumar | Comparative study of dc-link capacitor banks using physics-of-failure approach | B.Tech-M.Tech | 2017 | -- | ISRO |
| 14 | Pratik Deshmukh | On-state Voltage Measurement Circuit for Online Health Monitoring of Power Semiconductor Devices | M.Tech | 2018 | -- | Intel |
| 15 | Ankit Shukla | Method to Improve Harmonic Current Sharing and Reduce Voltage Distortion in AC Microgrid | M.Tech | 2018 | -- | Intel |
| 16 | Shouvik Paik | Design and Development of Three Phase Smart Solar Inverter with Grid Support Functionalities | MS(R) | July 2020 | Dr. S. Chakrabarti, IITK | Accenture Japan |
| 17 | Abhiram VP | Communication Topology Selection for Secondary Controllers in DC Microgrid | M.Tech | 2019 | Dr. S.R. Sahoo, IITK | SECI |
| 18 | Sagar Narale | Reliability and Accelerated Aging Method of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors | MS(R) | 2020 | Dr. Amit Verma, IITK | GE/Webtech |
| 19 | Parvraj Pachore | Controlled Switching Method for Minimizing Inrush Current in Three Phase Transformer | M.Tech | 2020 | -- | Eaton |
| 20 | Saumya Bohra | Regenerative Snubber Circuit for GaN HEMT Based Flyback Converter | M.Tech | 2019 | -- | Intel |
| 21 | Siddharth Jain | Design of LCL Filter for Wide Bandgap Devices Based Grid-Connected Inverter | M.Tech | 2020 | -- | Maxlinear |
| 22 | Akshata Rajput | A LLC resonant converter with wide output voltage range for USB - power delivery | MS(R) | 2021 | Dr. S. R. Sahoo, IITK | |
| 23 | Siva Prabhakar | Active Power Decoupling in Solar PV Inverters | M.Tech | 2020 | Dr. S. Chakrabarti, IITK | Joined IITB for Ph.D. |
| 24 | Bhismadev Meher | Accurate Flux Estimation of the Transformer and Development of Control Switching Device for Inrush Current Minimization | M.Tech | July 2020 | Dr. S. Chakrabarti, IITK | Qualcomm |
| 25 | Sai Sowmya Nagam | Gaussian Process Regression based Fault Location in DC Microgrid | M.Tech | 2019 | Dr. A. Mohapatra, IITK | Joined Imperial College London for Ph.D. |
| 26 | Pankaj Kumar | Collector-Emitter Voltage Based Health Monitoring of Bond Wire in IGBT at Low Gate Voltage | B.Tech-M.Tech | June 2020 | Dr. S. Chakrabarti, IITK | Qualcomm |
| 27 | Anubrata Das | Adaptive Reactive Power Injection By PV Inverter to Minimize Tap Changing Operations of OLTC | M.Tech | 2021 | -- | Continued for Ph.D |
| 28 | Nachiketa Deshmukh | Active Power Decoupling Circuit and Bootstrapped Gate Driver Power Supply for Single Phase Transformerless Photovoltaic Inverter | M.Tech | 2020 | Dr. S.R. Sahoo, IITK | Continued for Ph.D |
| 29 | Tanmay Tiwari | Coordinated Control of OLTC and Energy Storage for Voltage Regulation in Distribution Network with High PV Penetration | M.Tech | 2019 | Dr. Abheejeet Mohapatra, IITK | |
| 30 | Mrunmay Vaidya | Comparative Study of DC/AC Bidirectional Converter Topologies for Battery Charging in Integrated Starter Generator Application | M.Tech (RA) | 2021 | Dr. B.G. Fernandes, IITB | Eaton |
| 31 | Akshay Laturkar | Fast On-board Charger with Integrated Active Power Decoupling using GaN HEMT Devices | M.Tech (RA) | 2021 | -- | Bajaj Auto |
| 32 | Ali Asger Khattab | Novel Method for Determination of Lead Acid Battery State of Health | M.Tech | 2021 | Dr. Narendra Shiradkar, IITB | CPWD |
| 33 | Vaishnav Lande | Onboard Charger for Electric Vehicle | M.Tech (RA) | 2022 | -- | Enphase |
| 34 | Jitesh Kumar | EV Chargers | M.Tech | Expected 2023 | Dr. Kishore Chatterjee | Enphase |
| 35 | Akash Gosavi | -- | M.Tech (RAP) | Expected 2024 | -- | Murata, Japan |
| 36 | Chirag Kishor Sarode | GaN based solar inverters | M.Tech | Expected 2024 | -- | Sedemac, Pune |
| 37 | Mohd Ismail | SiC based power converters | M.Tech (RAP) | Expected 2025 |