An International Workshop On
 Next Generation Active Distribution Networks to Empower Future Low-Carbon Indian Society. August 12-14, 2016

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The faculty for the workshop will be drawn from various schools of IIT Mandi and other IITs and organizations. Some of the distinguished invited speakers are:

Prof. Ramesh Oruganti, IIT Mandi

Ramesh Oruganti (S’83–M’85–SM’01) received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and the Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, in 1987. He worked for several years in India in the area of power conversion. After being a faculty member for more than two decades, he is currently a Professor and Dean Academics at IIT Mandi. He is also a freelance consultant in energy systems research area. He has authored several papers in power electronics. He holds a patent on dc-dc converters. His current research interests include several major areas of power electronics, including, more recently, renewable energy applications of power electronics. Dr. Oruganti was the recipient of two prize paper awards.

Prof. S. N. Singh, IIT Kanpur

S. N. Singh (SM’02) received the M.Tech and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 1993 & 1995 respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization and control, security analysis, and power system planning.

Dr. Singh is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (IE) India and the The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India, the Institute of Engineering and Technology (U.K.) and INAE (India).

Prof. Francisco Gonzalez-Longatt, Loughborough University, UK

Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt (S’98–M’00–SM’08) is currently a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering , Loughborough University, UK. His academic qualifications include first Class Electrical Engineering of Instituto Universitario Politécnico de la Fuerza Armada Nacional, Venezuela (1994), MBA (Honors) of Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua, Venezuela (1999) and PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (2008). His main area of interest is integration of intermittent renewable energy resources into future power system and smart grids. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, member of IET (UK) and member of CIGRE.

Prof. Avinash Kumar Sinha, IIT Kharagpur

Avinash K. Sinha (M’91) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Patna University, Patna, India, in 1976; the M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, in 1978; and the Ph.D. degree from the Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani, India, in 1983. He joined IIT Kharagpur, in 1984, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering. He was the Head of Department from 2007 to 2010. He is leading the Power Systems Group and his team has developed a digital simulator for power systems. He was a Visiting Professor with Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, from 2001 to 2002 and in 2011. His current research interests include power system analysis, simulation of power system dynamics, artificial intelligence applications to power systems, and synchro-phasor applications to power systems.

Prof. Sinha was a recipient of the IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award for 2010 and 2011.

Prof. S. C. Srivastava, IIT Kanpur

S. C. Srivastava (SM’91) received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. His current research interests include energy management system, security analysis, voltage stability, synchronophasor applications, smart grid and electricity market.

Prof. Naran M. Pindoriya, IIT Gandhinagar

Naran M. Pindoriya (S’07–M’10) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 2009. He worked as research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, from January to November 2010. He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India, since November 2010. His research interests are power system deregulation, power system reliability, and application of AI techniques in power systems.

Dr. Bharat Singh Rajpurohit, IIT Mandi

Bharat Singh Rajpurohit (M’ 09- SM’14) was born in Jodhpur, India. He received M. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India and Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Presently, he is working as Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India. His research interests include power electronics and grid integration of renewable energy sources. He is a member of ISTE and IEEE.

Dr. Bhakti Madhav Joshi, IIT Mandi

Bhakti M. Joshi received her B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Govt. College of Engineering, Pune, India and the M.Tech. degree with specialization in power electronics and power systems from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. She is currently working as a faculty in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India. Her areas of interest include AC drives and control, fault diagnosis in drives, modelling and simulation of electrical systems and real-time simulation of electrical systems.

Dr. Samar Agnihotri, IIT Mandi

Samar Agnihotri (S’07–M’10) is a faculty member in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at IIT Mandi. He holds M.Sc (Engg.) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Sciences from IISc Bangalore. During 2010-12, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in the areas of communication and information theory.

Dr. Ranjana Sodhi, IIT Ropar

Ranjana Sodhi obtained her B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Hamirpur, in 2005. She has been active in the field of electrical engineering since 2005. In the past she had a brief stint as a Project Engineer (in voice and next generation networks group) at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore; and also got appointment as Additional Director in Central Electricity Authority (CEA), New Delhi, (IES batch 2005). She came back to academia to pursue research in the area of power systems and completed her Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in May 2011. Dr. Sodhi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of EE at IIT Ropar. Dr. Sodhi's doctoral research work is around the emerging Synchrophasor technology and its applications towards power system state estimation and voltage stability assessment.

Dr. Bibhu Prasad Padhy, IIT Ropar

Bibhu Prasad Padhy received BE degree in Electrical Engineering from the University College of Engineering Burla, Odisha, in 2006 and M.Tech degree from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in 2009, and subsequently he received his PhD degree from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 2015. After his PhD, he worked approximately 8 months as a Project Engineer in the Advance Power System Lab at IIT Kanpur. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. His research interests include power system dynamics and stability, WAMS, and AI applications in power systems.

Dr. Manoj Thakur, IIT Mandi

Manoj Thakur has done his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2000 and 2007 respectively. Presently, he is working as a faculty in the School of Basic Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India. He has more than fifteen research publications in international Journals and conferences. His research interests include optimization, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and pattern recognition. He is a life time member of Operation Research Society of India (ORSI).