Power Electronics Applications in Power Systems

Prof. Sanjib Ganguly was born in West Bengal, India. He obtained Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science, and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur {Formerly, Bengal Engineering and Science University} in 2003. He received Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2006. He was awarded with the Ph.D degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2011. He worked in the Tata Power Company Ltd., as a Sr. officer, electrical maintenance of 2×500 MW thermal power units in Trombay Thermal Power Station, Mumbai from 2006-2007. He worked as the Assistant Professor in NIT Rourkela from 2011-2015, before joining in IIT Guwahati in 2015. He is presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. His research interest includes distribution system planning and optimization, multi-objective optimization, custom power devices, hybrid energy systems, and evolutionary algorithms. He has authored 46 papers in international journals, which include IEEE Transactions, IET, and different Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley journals with more than 2150 citations according to the Google scholar, till date. He has published sole-authored papers in IEEE Transactions Power Systems, IEEE Transactions Power Delivery, and IET Generation, Transmissions, and Distribution. He is enlisted in World’s 2% top scientist in the years of 2019, 2020, 2021 according to the list published by authors of Standford University. He has successfully run a MOOCs course entitled, ‘Operation and planning of power distribution systems’ in January 2022 and January 2023 (re-run) sessions.