Dr. Satish Naik

Assistant Professor, Senior Member IEEE & SIRE Fellow
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad
PB Road, Dharwad, Karnataka, India - 580011
email: satish[at]iitdh[dot]ac[dot]in

Research Interests

Power Electronics
Electric Vehicles
Transportation Electrification
DC Circuit Breakers
Grid Integration of Renewable Energy
Cryogenic Power Electronics

About

I am working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad, Karnataka, India since February 2019. Currently, I am leading a group of researchers developing power electronic systems for various applications, namely Electric Vehicle Chargers, Inverters for Grid-tied inverters, and DC Circuit Breakers for the Next-Generation Transportation Systems. I am also strongly involved in teaching various core courses both for undergraduate and post-graduate programs at IIT Dharwad.

From July 2018 to January 2019, I worked for Mahindra Electric wherein I was responsible for the development of electric vehicle charger. During my tenure as a post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Kaushik Rajashekara at PEMSES - Power Electronics, Microgrids, and Subsea Electrical Systems Center at the University of Houston, Texas, USA, I was responsible for the development of dc circuit breakers for subsea systems. In August 2014, I joined the power electronics group with Prof. L. Umanand at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India as a Ph.D. scholar, and received the doctorate in February 2018. My Ph.D. research work focused on the development of novel multilevel inverters topologies for grid-tied applications. I received the Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India in July 2012. Later, from August 2012 to 2014, I worked for the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, and I was responsible for the development of high-power radar power supplies.

Resume

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

August 2014 - February 2018

Institute: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IN

Thesis Title: Multilevel Inverters for Grid-tied Solar PV Systems

Master of Engineering

August 2010 - July 2012

Institute: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IN

Course: Electrical Engineering - High Voltage Engineering

Bachelor of Technology

2006 - 2010

Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, IN

Course: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor

February 2019 - Present

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, IN

Manager R&D

July 2018 - January 2019

Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited, Bangalore, IN

Post Doctoral Fellow

September 2017 - May 2018

University of Houston, TX, USA

Scientist

August 2012 - 2014

Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), DRDO, IN

Visiting Positions

Visiting Professor

August - December 2022

Department of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics
Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.

Publications

Journal Publications:

[J11]. Venkata Raghavendra I, Satish Naik , Sreekanth T and Andrii Chub “Controlled Bidirectional DC Circuit Breaker with Zero Negative Current for High Load Shift Applications” , IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, July 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2022.3193345. ------ click here for PDF .

[J10]. Venkata Raghavendra I, Satish Naik , Ajmal Muhammed, and Anindya Ray “Modular Bidirectional Solid-State DC Circuit Breaker for Next-Generation Electric Aircrafts” , IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, May 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2022.3176929. ------ click here for PDF.

[J9]. Nandakumar S, Venkata Raghavendra I, Ajmal Muhammed, Satish Naik , Rajashekara Kaushik “A Modular Bidirectional Solid State DC Circuit Breaker for LV and MVDC Grid Applications” , IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, May 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2022.3177248. ------ click here for PDF.

[J8]. Ajmal Muhammed C N, Venkata Raghavendra I, Satish Naik , Anindya Ray and Harish Krishnamoorthy “A Modified Hybrid DC Circuit Breaker with Reduced Arc for Low Voltage DC Grids” , IEEE Access, Accepted, September 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3115456.

[J7]. Venkata Raghavendra I, Satish Naik , and Sreekanth T “Modified z-Source DC Circuit Breaker with Enhanced Performance during Commissioning and Reclosing” , IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 37, Issue. 1, pp 910 - 919, January 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2021.3092773. ------ click here for PDF.

[J6]. Anindya Ray, Kaushik Rajashekara, Satish Naik , and Sumit Pramanick “Coupled Inductor Based Zero Current Switching Hybrid DC Circuit Breaker Topologies” , IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol: 55, Issue: 5 , Sept.-Oct. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2019.2926467.

[J5]. Satish Naik B, L Umanand, K. Gopakumar and Subba Reddy B, “A Two Phase Five Level Converter with Least Number of Power Switches Requiring only a Single DC Source”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1942 - 1952, Dec, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2018.2791403.

[J4]. Satish Naik B, Shan S, L Umanand and Subba Reddy B, “A Novel Wide Duty Cycle Range Wide Band High Frequency Isolated Gate Driver for Power Converters”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 54, Issue. 1, pp. 437-446, January/February 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2017.2764850.

[J3]. Satish Naik B, L Umanand, K. Gopakumar and Subba Reddy B, “A New Two Phase Five-Level Converter for Three Phase Isolated Grid-Tied Systems with Inherent Capacitor Balancing and Reduced Component Count”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1942 - 1952, Dec, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2018.2805520.

[J2]. Kaushik Rajashekara, Harish Krishnamoorthy, and Satish Naik B, “Electrification of Subsea Systems: Requirements and Challenges in Power Conversion”, IEEE CPSS transactions on Power Electronics and Applications, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 259-266, December 2017. DOI: 10.24295/CPSSTPEA.2017.00024.

[J1]. Subba Reddy B and Satish Naik B, “Measurement of Potential and Leakage Current of an Insulator String Containing Faulty Discs”, Journal of India Instrument Society of India, Vol. 43, No.3, pp. 153-155 Sept-2012.

Conference Publications: - (Select List)

[C18]. Tanel Jalakas, Satish Naik, Andrii Chub, and Dmitri Vinnikov, “Performance Analysis of Protection Methods in Residential DC Microgrids”, Accepted for presentation at 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG 2023), Tallinn, Estonia, June 2023.

[C17]. Aditya P, Satish Naik, Alessandro Lidizzi, Andrii Chub, and Dmitri Vinnikov, “Bidirectional SSCB for Residential DC Microgrids with Reduced Voltage and Current Stress during Fault Interruption”, Accepted for presentation at 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG 2023), Tallinn, Estonia, June 2023.

[C16]. Aditya P, Venkata Raghavendra I, Satish Naik, Fred Wang, Andrii Chub, and Dmitri Vinnikov “Modified Q-Z-Source DC Circuit Breaker for Next-Generation Electric Aircrafts”, presented at 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (IEEE APEC), Florida, USA, March 2023.

[C15]. Aditya P, Venkata Raghavendra I, Satish Naik, Alessandro Lidozzi, Xiaoqing Song, and Luigi Piegari, “Modified O-Z-Source DC Circuit Breaker for Electrical Power System Protection of Future Aircrafts”, presented at 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (IEEE APEC), Florida, USA, March 2023.

[C14]. Aditya P, Venkata Raghavendra, Satish Naik, Sreekanth T, and Andrii Chub “Bidirectional DC Circuit Breaker with Improved Performance during Commissioning and Reclosing”,, presented at 2022 IEEE EPE - ECCE Europe, Germany.

[C13]. Ajmal Muhammed C N, Nandakumar S, Satish Naik, and Kaushik Rajashekara “A Zero Current Switching Hybrid DC Circuit Breaker for DC Grid Applications”, presented at 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (IEEE APEC), Houston, TX, USA.

[C12]. Venkata Raghavendra I, Satish Naik B, and Sreekanth T “H-bridge Based Bidirectional Z-Source DC Circuit Breaker with Improved Device Stress and Automatic Reclosing Capability”, presented at 45th IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference, IECON 2021 Canada.

[C11]. Ajmal Muhammed, Venkata Raghavendra I, and Satish Naik B, “Enhancement of DC MCB Performance using Power Semiconductor Devices”, presented at 45th IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference, IECON 2021 Canada.

[C10]. Venkata Raghavendra I, Satish Naik B, and Sreekanth T “Modified Z-Source DC Circuit Breaker with Zero Negative Current in the Load”, presented at the IEEE 2021 Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE - Asia), May 24-27, 2021, Singapore.

[C9]. Venkata Raghavendra I, Anindya Ray, Satish Naik B, “A Snubberless Hybrid Circuit Breaker for Medium Voltage DC grids”, presented at the 2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2020-ECCE Asia), Nanjing, China, November 29 - December 2, 2020.

[C8]. Anindya Ray, Satish Naik B, and Kaushik Rajashekara, “Bidirectional Coupled Inductor Based Hybrid Circuit Breaker Topologies for DC System Protection”, 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), USA, pp. 1138--1145, 17-21 March 2019.

[C7]. Anindya Ray, Satish Naik B, and Kaushik Rajashekara, “Coupled Inductor based Hybrid Circuit Breaker Topologies for DC Grid Applications”, 2018, 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON, USA, pp. 1116 - 1121, June 2018.

[C6]. Anindya Ray, Satish Naik B, Sumit Pramanick and Kaushik Rajashekara, “A Coupled Inductor based Hybrid Circuit Breaker Topology for Subsea HVDC Transmission Systems”, 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), USA, pp. 7142 - 7149.

[C5]. Satish Naik B, Ravi Prakash Reddy, Umanand L, Subba Reddy B and Gopakumar K, “A Novel Least Component Count Single DC-link Fed Generalized Multilevel Inverter Configuration for Three-phase High Power Isolated Grid Connected Systems”, 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), USA, pp. 2976 - 2981.

[C4]. Raviprakash Reddy, Satish Naik B and L Umanand, “A Novel Non-isolated Bidirectional DC - DC Converter for High Voltage Gain Applications”, in the proceedings of IEEE PES APPEEC 2017, Bangalore, India.

[C3]. Satish Naik B, Shan S, L Umanand and Subba Reddy B, “A Wide Duty Cycle Range Wide Band High Frequency Isolated Gate Driver for Power Converters”, IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference (IEEE-IEACon), Malaysia, November 2016.

[C2]. Subba Reddy B, Satish Naik B, Udaya Kumar and L Satish, “Potential and Electric Field Distribution in a Ceramic Disc Insulator String with Faulty Insulators”, IEEE 10 th International Conference on the Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials (ICPADM), July 24-28, 2012, Bangalore, India.

[C1]. Subba Reddy B, Alok Ranjan Verma, and Satish Naik B, “Performance Analysis of 1200kV Ceramic Disc Insulator String under Normal and Faulted Conditions”, Energy Procedia 75:1114-1119, August 2015.

Public Profile Links

Projects

Ongoing Projects:

Development of Intelligent Circuit Breakers for Residential DC Microgrids

Principal Investigator (PI), Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Jan 2024-2027.

Design Validation and Performance Analysis of the Antenna Power Supply Unit

Principal Investigator (PI), Funding Agency: Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), DRDO, Govt. of India, 2022-2023.

Completed Projects:

Development of Direct Current Hybrid Circuit Breaker for DC Grid Applications

Principal Investigator (PI), Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Startup Research Grant (SRG), 2019-2021.

Completed, March 2022

Development of DC Circuit Breakers for Next-Generation Transportation Systems (NGTS)

Principal Investigator (PI), Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, SIRE, August- December 2022.

Host Institute: Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, EU

Development of Electric Vehicle Chargers

Principal Investigator (PI), Funding Agency: IIT Dharwad, Startup Research Grant (SRG), 2019-2021.

Completed, December 2021

Financial Assistance to attend 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)

Principal Investigator (PI), Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, International Travel Support, March 2022.

Completed, March 2022

Collaborations/Funding Agencies/Sponsors:

Students

Current Students:

Nandakumar S

Date of joining: August 2020, Date of Graduation: Expected - August 2024

Current Position: Ph.D. Scholar at IITDh as well as Scientist "F", LRDE, DRDO

Aditya P

Date of joining: January 2022, Date of Graduation: Expected - December 2023

Current Position: M.S. Scholar

Daniel Anselm DSA

Date of joining: August 2023, Date of Graduation: Expected -

Current Position: Ph.D. Scholar

Aditya Shirodkar

Date of joining: August 2023, Date of Graduation: Expected -

Current Position: Ph.D. Scholar

Prashant Pithanishetty

Date of joining: August 2023, Date of Graduation: Expected -

Current Position: M.S. Scholar

Graduated Students:

Venkata Raghavendra Itte, Ph.D Scholar

Date of joining: August 2019, Date of Graduation: December 2022

Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, at Prof. Fred Wang's Research Group, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Ajmal Muhammed C N, Junior Research Fellow

Date of joining: August 2020, Date of Graduation: December 2021.

Current Position: PhD Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA

Gyana Manjari Sahoo, Ph.D Scholar

Date of joining: August 2021, Date of Graduation: July 2022.

Current Position: PhD Scholar, IIT Bombay, India

!!! The list is limited to only - Ph.D, JRF, and MS Scholars.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

  • EE429: Design of Power Converters, [Aug 2021]
  • EE425: Advanced Power Electronics and Drives, [Aug 2019, Aug 2020]
  • EE101: Introduction to Electrical and Electronics Engineering, [Mar 2021, Mar 2022, Mar 2023]
  • EE206: Introduction to Electrical Machines, [Jan 2020, Jan 2021]
  • EE222: Introduction to Power Electronics, [Mar 2020]
  • EE205: Network Theory, [May 2019, Aug 2019]
  • EE206: Electrical Machines and Power Electronics, [Mar 2019]
  • EE311: Electrical Machines and Power Electronics Laboratory, [Aug 2019, Aug 2023]
  • ME311: Hands-on Engineering Laboratory, [Aug 2019, Nov 2021, May 2022]

Postgraduate Courses

  • EE429: Design of Power Converters, [Aug 2021]
  • EE425: Advanced Power Electronics and Drives, [Aug 2019, Aug 2020, Aug 2021]
  • EE641: Photovoltaic System Design, [Aug 2023]

Reference Materials

    Power Electronics
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  • M.H. Rashid, Power Electronics Circuits, Devices and Applications, Third Edition, Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi-2004.
  • Ned Mohan, Tore M, Undelnad, William P, Robbins (3rd Edition), Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design; Wiley 2002.
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  • Danial W. Hart, Power Electronics, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Indian Edition 2011.

  • Electrical Machines
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  • P.C. Sen, Principles of Electric Machines and Power Electronics, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons-1996.
  • Stephen Chapman, Electric Machinery Fundamentals, 4th Edition
  • P. S. Bimbhra, Electrical machinery, Khanna Publishers.
  • Del Toro, Basic Electric Machines, Pearson, 2016

  • Network Theory and Intro to Electrical Engineering
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  • L.O. Chua, C.A. Desoer, E.S. Kuh, Linear and Nonlinear Circuits, McGraw - Hill International Edition 1987.
  • Suresh Kumar, Electric Circuits and Networks, Pearson, 1st edition 2008.
  • M.E. Van Valkenburg, Network Analysis, Ed3, 1974 or new editions.
  • Anant Agarwal and Jefferey H. Lang, “Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronics Circuits,” Morgan Kaufmann publishers, 2005.
  • Wlilliam H. Hayt, Jr., Jack E. Kemmerly and Steven M. Durbin, “Engineering Circuit Analysis,” Tata McGraw-Hill