Smart Grid Stability and Control

Dr Ram Krishan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at NIT Warangal, Telangana, India. He received his M. Tech from NIT Hamirpur, HP in 2013 and Ph. D. from IIT Delhi in 2018. He has worked at Deloitte India LLP for 2 years (2017-2019), where he executed 7 ardent pilot projects under the Renewable Integration and Sustainable Energy (RISE) initiative project of USAID/India to support the Govt. of India's efforts to manage large-scale integration of Renewable Energy sources (RES). He has worked closely with CERC, POSOCO, PGCIL, NTPC, and KPTCL. He has worked on the AGC and Dynamic Reactive Power control of Large Solar Parks and the BESS pilot project in India. He was also actively involved in different industry projects associated with transmission and distribution system analysis and electrical vehicle (EVs) to grid (V2G) analysis. He is an active member of IEEE and CIGRE Societies. Apart from industrial exposers, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in scholarly journals and conferences. His present research interests are power system analysis, stability, load flow, Battery Energy Storage Systems and Grid Integrated RES. He is an expert in Grid integration and coordinated control of inverter-based microgrid systems.

Dr. Deepak Reddy Pullaguram received his M. Tech degree in power system engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, in 2014, and a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2018. He worked as a Faculty Research Fellow and Assistant professor of Research with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas Arlington, Texas, USA, in 2018 and 2019. During this period, Research on high-performance optimization and cyber-security of distributed control in microgrids was funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), USA. He worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal in India from December 2019- September 2022. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Dr. Deepak received the A P J Abdul Kalam Memorial International Travel Award for the IFAC World Congress meeting in 2017 and the POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA-2018) for the best thesis in 2018. He received the CSEE JPES Excellent Paper Award. He also received the Scientific High-Level Visiting Fellowships (SSHN)-2023 Award from the French Institute in India (IFI), French Government. Dr. Deepak's research interests include renewable power generation, Operation, dynamics, and control of AC/DC microgrids, and cyber-security. Deepak has published 16 Journals, including IEEE and IET journals, and 19 International/National Conferences. Dr. Deepak has authored two book chapters and has 2 patents to his credit. He has multiple ongoing projects sponsored by the DST-SERB-sponsored SRG project, National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)-DST.

Surender Reddy Salkuti has been working with Woosong University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea as an Associate Professor in the Department of Railroad and Electrical Engineering since April 2014. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), New Delhi, India, in 2013. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, from 2013 to 2014. His research interests include power system restructuring issues, smart grid development with the integration of wind and solar photovoltaic energy sources, battery storage, and electric vehicles, demand response, power system analysis and optimization, artificial intelligence and soft computing techniques application in power systems, and renewable energy.

He has published three edited volumes with Springer (LNEE and GREEN) and over 300 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He served as Guest Editor for various international journals. He is also an editorial board member for many journals. He received the 2016 Distinguished Researcher Award from Woosong University Educational Foundation, Republic of Korea, and the POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) 2013, India. He is a Member of IEEE and IEEE Power and Energy Society.