I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology at Dharwad. I am a part of the Power and Energy group where I conduct research in power electronics, renewable energy systems and electric mobility. Since November 2024, I am serving as the Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited – Renewable Energy Research (KREDL-RER) Assistant Chair Professor.

Research

My work aims to enable equitable, sustainable and economical use of clean energy. My current focus areas include power electronic converter topologies and controls, grid-integration of renewables, and converters for electric vehicles.

I am currently working on control schemes for modular converter topologies, soft-switched converters and power converters for EV chargers. The work is hardware-focused: we develop new topologies and control schemes, built converter prototypes, and implement the controllers using microcontrollers, DSPs and FPGAs. We also have a high-end Power Hardware-in-Loop platform which we use for our work on Grid-tied inverters.

This work is supported by generous grants from DST and ANRF (erstwhile SERB), along with substantial support from several industry partners.

Teaching

I teach theory and laboratory courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level in Power Electronics, Drives, Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles, and Embedded Control. For more details see here

Training and Consultancy

I work with industry partners on a wide variety of collaborative efforts. Please email me with your specific requirements for more information. Here are some additional details.

Outreach

I work with several grassroots organisations and non-profits in Karnataka in the field of sustainability and education. Many of these activities are supported by generous CSR contributions from companies including Honeywell, Enphase, Toshiba and Infineon.

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