EE Summer School 2025

10 July - 12 july 2025

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About

Welcome!

Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in collaboration with the IEEE Bangalore section, IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter and several other IEEE technical chapters, is organizing EE Summer School 2025 for undergraduate students ( B.Tech – EEE, EE, ECE, CSA 5th/6th/7th semester students) and Post graduate students ( MTech – Power Systems, Power Electronics, Signal Processing, AI/ML and Control Systems, 3rd semester students ) from 10-12 July 2025. This 3-day summer school will be hosted in EE, IISc, Bangalore. The objective is to encourage brilliant young minds to build careers in core engineering disciplines such as Electrical Engineering including Signal Processing, Power Electronics, Power Systems, Renewable Integration, High Voltage Engineering, and Control Systems. There will be talks and demonstrations by IISc faculty, research students, and industry professionals to introduce the attendees to the opportunities and challenges in core engineering disciplines and let them know about the applications, current challenges, and emerging trends. We expect 100+ UG/PG students to join from top engineering colleges, including IITs and NITs from all over the country. The Summer School is open only for IEEE members. Non-members have to take IEEE membership before applying.

The last date for the application is extended to 07th MAY 2025.

The list of short-listed candidates will be announced within two weeks of the last date of the application.

Contact Information: Please email any queries to ieeepes.iisc.summerschool@gmail.com

The shortlisted candidates will be required to register (Rs. 1000 + GST for IEEE members only) within a week from the date of announcement. A separate email with registration link will be provided.

Self-paid accommodation (a maximum of INR 800 – 1000 per day) can be arranged in nearby hotels on twin sharing basis if opted in the registration form.

No travel grants or accommodation support is available.

The organizing committee is making best efforts to get sponsorships for accommodation or travel support up to a maximum of Rs. 2000-3000. If funds available the support will be announced during the summer school. All participants are requested to keep the original travel and accommodation bills intact.

Note : The registration is over.

Activities

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Tech Talks by IISc faculties and Industry experts

Slide 2

Interactive sessions on career building

Slide 3

Lab tours and demonstrations by IISc students

Slide 4

Quizzes, Hackathons and more

Schedule

Note : Dates for the summer school given below are final. The daily event schedule is tentative. The scheduled talks for each day is listed below. For event timings please click on the detailed schedule button above.

Day 1: Talk Details* (B308)

10th July (09.00am-9.15am) Inauguration

INAUGURATION

Class Room B308

10th July (9.15am- 09.45am) About IISc, EECS

Hon. Prof. P S Sastry

Talk Title: About IISc, EECS
Speaker Bio:
Ph.D. IISc, Bangalore – 1985
BE IISc, Bangalore – 1981
B.Sc.(Hons), IIT, Kharagpur -1978

10th July (9.45am-10.15am) About IISc, EE

Prof. Udaya Kumar

Talk Title: About IISc, EE Dept
Speaker Bio: Prof. Udaya Kumar is currently Chairman of Electrical Engineering Department. He obtained a master’s and Ph.D., from high voltage engineering, IISc, in 1991 and 1998.
Has was a member of international working groups on lightning-related topics and Chair of IISc GATE office.
He has/had projects with Indian Space Agency, Aeronautical Development Agency, Metro/Railways, and Power companies.
He is an Editor of IEEE Trans on Power Delivery, Associate Editor of IET High Voltage, and PAC member of a SERB’s committee & Technical member of the Lightning Protection committee of NDMA.

10th July (10.15am-11am) Industry Talk

Mr. Vishal Gopalakrishnan

Talk Title: Emerging Opportunities in Engineering Sectors
Speaker Bio: A G Vishal Anand (M’16, SM’20) received a B.E. degree from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, in 2001 and an M.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2005. He worked at Tata Motors Pvt Ltd, Pune, from June 2005 to November 2005 as a Manager. From December 2005 to August 2006, he worked as a Design Engineer at American Power Conversion. From September 2006 to the present, he has been with Bloom Energy (I) Pvt Ltd, where he currently serves as Director of Engineering. He is working towards his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His primary areas of interest are in the modeling, control, and design of grid-connected and standalone Inverters, as well as the topology, analysis, and control of resonant converters. He’s the current Chair of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Bangalore chapter, and holds 4 US patents.

10th July (11.15am-12.15pm) Faculty Talk 1 (SP)

Prof Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Talk Title: A peep into how the voice assistants work
Speaker Bio: Prof. Prasanta Kumar Ghosh is an associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering (EE) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA in 2011. During 2011-2012 he was with IBM India Research Lab (IRL) as a researcher. He was awarded the INSPIRE faculty fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India in 2012. He was awarded Center of Excellence in Teaching’s award for excellence in teaching in the category of EE for the year 2010-11 in USC. His research interests are in human centered signal processing with applications to education and health care.

10th July (12.15pm-12.30pm) Students Talk 1

Soumya Dutta

Talk Title: Emotion in Speech:Recognition and Synthesis

10th July (12.30pm-12.45pm) Students Talk 2

Harisyam P V

Talk Title: Making the Power Converters Smaller

10th July (12.45pm-01pm) Students Talk 3

Chandra Mohan Sharma

Talk Title: Speech Enhancement

10th July (01pm-01.15pm) Students Talk 4

Syamala Mutnoory

Talk Title: Characterization and Voltage Balancing of Ultracapacitors

10th July (02pm-03.45pm) Tutorial 1 (PE) Class room B308

Prof. Kaushik Basu

Tutorial Title: The Enabling Technology for a Clean Energy Future
Speaker Bio: Prof. Kaushik Basu is associate professor at the electrical engineering department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota, USA. His research areas are high frequency link DC AC converters- Topology, modulation (PWM, Resonant, DAB etc.) and control, Characterization of and design with emerging power semiconductor devices such as SiC, GaB etcPWM techniques for multiphase and multilevel high power motor drive, Embedded systems design for power converters, High frequency and high power magnetics.

10th July (02pm-03.45pm) Tutorial 2 (Control) Class Room B306

Dr. Kiran Kumari

Tutorial Title: Control-Theoretic
Foundations for Robotics:
Theory to Implementation
Speaker Bio: Dr. Kiran Kumari received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India, in 2013 and the M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Control and Automation from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, in 2015. She obtained a Ph.D. degree in Systems and Control Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, in 2021 and, after that, held the Post-Doctoral Fellow position at the Control Engineering Department of Technical University Ilmenau, Germany, till 2022. Dr. Kumari joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, as an Assistant Professor in 2022 and received the Rekha Rao Young Investigator Award in 2024. Her broad area of research is control theory and its application, and her current research includes event-triggered control, sliding mode control, multi-agent systems application to robotics, nonlinear systems and control, and observer-based control design.

10th July (04pm-5.30pm) EE Lab Visits

EE Lab Visits

Day 2: Talk details *

11th July (09am-11am) High Voltage Lab Visit

HV Lab Visit

11th July (11.15am-12.15pm) Faculty talk 2

Prof. Sriram Ganapathy

Talk Title: Demystifying the Black Box: Explainability and Trust in Modern AI
Speaker Bio: Sriram Ganapathy is a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Previously, he was a research staff member at the IBM Watson Research Center. He received his PhD from the Center of Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include signal processing and machine learning applied to speech recognition, speaker recognition and auditory neuroscience. He is a member of the ISCA and a senior member of the IEEE.

11th July (12.15pm-12.30pm) Students talk 1

Debarpan Bhattacharya

Talk Title: Uncertainty estimation of LLMs

11th July (12.30pm-12.45pm) Students talk 2

Soumyadeep Chowdhury

Talk Title: Salient Aspects of Aircraft-initiated lightning and the resulting EM fields

11th July (12.45pm-01pm) Students talk 3

Shashank S

Talk Title: A Cyber-Physical Modeling and Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Smart Grids

11th July (01pm-01.15pm) Students talk 4

Abijith Jagannath Kamath

Talk Title: High-Dynamic-Range Imaging in the Neuromorphic Unlimited Sampling Framework

11th July (02pm-03.45pm) Tutorial 1 (Class Room B308)

Dr. Sameer Hazra

Talk Title: High-Level Design Principles of Inverters for Grid and EV Applications
Speaker Bio:
Samir Hazra received Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2016. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India with M.Tech. degree in electrical engineering in 2008 and from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India with B.E. (hons.) degree in power engineering, in 2005. He has almost ten years of work experience from industry including EPC Power Corp., Poway, CA, USA, TVS Motors Company, Hosur, Tamilnadu, India and SIEMENS, Kolkata, India in various areas of power electronics and controls.
Dr. Hazra received the 2017 IEEE PELS TC6 Emerging Technology Best Paper Award and the 2016 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Second Prize Paper Award. He has also received 2018 IEEE IAS CMD best doctoral thesis award.

11th July (02pm-03.45pm) Tutorial 2 (Class Room B306)

Prof. Soma Biswas

Talk Title: Computer Vision at a Glance
Speaker Bio: Dr. Soma Biswas is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering department in IISc. She received her PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2009. Then she worked as a Research Assistant Professor at University of Notre Dame and as a Research Scientist at GE Research before joining IISc. She is a senior member of IEEE and received the prestigious IEEE Shri Pralhad P Chhabria “Best Professional Women Engineer” Award in 2018. Her research interests include computer vision, machine learning, deep learning.

11th July (4pm-04.45pm)) Faculty Panel

Faculty Panel

11th July (04.45pm-05.30pm) Students Panel

Students Panel

Day 3: Talk Details

12th July (09am-10.45am) EE Lab Visit

EE Lab Visit

12th July (11am-12pm) Life @IISc

Prof. soma Biswas

Dr. Kiran Kumari

12th July (12pm-01pm) Symposium

Research Students Symposium Poster Sessions

Interaction with research students

1	Naresh Rana	A Novel Single-Phase Single-Stage Multiport Integrated Onboard Charger for EV utilising Traction
2	Himanshu Bhusan Sandhibigraha	Reconfigurable Multi-port Converter for Electric Vehicle Charging
3	Anwesha Banerjee	Generalized Category Discovery
4	Aditya Raj	Experimental Evaluation of Force-Current Characteristics of a Radial Electromagnetic Bearing
5	Debarshi Brahma	Prompt Tuning VLMs for Few-shot learning under Distribution shifts
6	Neha Rajput	High-frequency magnetic materials characterization testbench
7	Tanuka Bhattacharjee	Dysarthric speech processing
8	Dharani Moka	Study of Solid Rotor Induction Machine
9	Chetan Sharma	Articulatory Analysis and Modeling of Speech Production in real-time MRI videos
10	Nithyadas P V	Modulation Techniques for Capacitively Blocked Dual-active Half-bridge Converter
11	Samrat Das	Performance Evaluation of Single-Pulse-Operated High-Speed Switched Reluctance Machine Towards Multi-Objective Optimization
12	Raushan Kumar	Grid Connected inverter control in Grid Following Mode
13	Durvesh Kalke	Emulation of Ternary Pumped Storage Hydro Plant on a Laboratory Micro-alternator
14	Adarsh Jain	Cold-Diffusion Driven Downward Continuation of Gravity Data
15	Sai Samrat Kankanala	Decoding Auditory Attention
16	Ashish Verma	Diffusion Model Based Image Reconstruction in Lensless Imaging
17	Ayush Jha	MIT Coffee Can Radar Demo
18	Aabid Ahmad Dar	Reconfigurable Step-Up/Down Series-Pass Partial Power Processing Converter for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
19	Soumyadeep Chowdhury	Salient Aspects of Aircraft-initiated lightning and the resulting EM fields
20	Shashank S	A Cyber-Physical Modeling and Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Smart Grids
21	Syamala Mutnoory	Characterization and Voltage Balancing of Ultracapacitors