Keynote

Dr. Rakesh Kumar

Details about keynote: Will be update soon

Tentative time of keynote: 9:15 AM to 10:15AM 12^th August 2023.

About resource person:
Dr. Rakesh completed his UG (EEE) and PG (Power Electronics and Drives) from Anna University in 2011 and 2013. He then worked at Rajalakshmi Engineering College as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of EEE from 2013 to 2015. He went on to enroll in a Full-Time Ph.D. in Vellore Institute of Technology in 2015, and he subsequently received his Ph.D. degree in 2020. He was with the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli as a Research Fellow cum Post Doctoral Fellow from 2019 to 2022.

Area of interest: Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, Nanogrids.

Key publications: past 3 years
1. Sujikannan, M. ., Kumar, A. R. ., & Daniel, S. A. . (2022). Sizing of Rooftop PV Array and Community-Run Battery Storage for an Energy Cooperative in Prosumer Cluster. Distributed Generation; Alternative Energy Journal, 37(06), 1797–1822. https://doi.org/10.13052/dgaej2156-3306.3764.
2. Venkatesh Boddapati, A. Rakesh Kumar, S. Arul Daniel, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban. "Design and prospective assessment of a hybrid energy-based electric vehicle charging station", Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.102389.
3. A. Rakesh Kumar and T. Deepa, "An improved low switching frequency modulation scheme for a symmetric CCS-multilevel inverter", International Journal of Power Electronics, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPELEC.2021.116647.
4. A Rakesh Kumar, T Deepa, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, "Low-Switching Frequency Modulation Schemes for Multi-level Inverters", CRC Press: Book.
5. A. R. Kumar, S. Padmanaban, P. S. Subudhi, F. Blaabjerg and C. Dhanamjayulu, "A Fibonacci Series based Nearest Level Modulation Scheme for Multilevel Inverters," 2020 IEEE 21st Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Aalborg, Denmark, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/COMPEL49091.2020.9265866.
6. A. Rakesh Kumar, P. Sarathi Subudhi, M. Sagar Bhaskar and S. Padmanaban, "A Geometric Series Based Nearest Level Modulation Scheme for Multilevel Inverter," IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, 2020, pp. 3138-3142, doi: 10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254314.
7. M. S. Bhaskar et al., "Investigation of a Transistor Clamped T-Type Multilevel H-Bridge Inverter With Inverted Double Reference Single Carrier PWM Technique for Renewable Energy Applications," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 161787-161804, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3020625.
8. M. S. Bhaskar, D. J. Almakhles, S. Padmanaban, J. B. Holm-Nielsen, A. R. Kumar and S. O. Masebinu, "Triple-Mode Active-Passive Parallel Intermediate Links Converter With High Voltage Gain and Flexibility in Selection of Duty Cycles," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 134716-134727, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3010594.
9. Elavarasan, R.M.; Velmurugan, K.; Subramaniam, U.; Kumar, A.R.; Almakhles, D. Experimental Investigations Conducted for the Characteristic Study of OM29 Phase Change Material and Its Incorporation in Photovoltaic Panel. Energies 2020, 13, 897. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040897.