Professional Details

Career Details

Period Designation
January 1995 to January 1996 Project Associate, HVE Dept., IISc
February 1996 to March 1997 Senior Research Analyst, Engineering Mechanics Research Centre
23-April-1998 to 22-April-2001 Lecturer
23-April-2001 to 22-April 2007 Assistant Professor
23-April-2007 to 22-April 20013 Associate Professor
23-April-2013 to Present Professor
Vice-Chair, IISc GATE-JAM Office, for 2017-19
Chair IISc  GATE-JAM Office, June 2019 – May 2020;
Chair of EE since  16th April 2021

Membership of Professional Bodies and other Associations

  • Member of the International Council on Large Electrical System (CIGRE) working groups WG 4.26 on “Evaluation of Lightning Shielding Analysis Methods for EHV and UHV DC and AC Transmission Lines” and WG 4.37 on “Electromagnetic Computation Methods for Lightning Surge Studies with Emphasis on the FDTD Method”
  • Distinguished Member of CIGRE, Senior Member of IEEE & Fellow of National Academy of Engineers
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Power Delivery and IET High Voltage
  • Member of IEEE Transmission and Distribution Herman Halperin Award Committee

Institute Activities:

  • Served in several departmental and institute level activities, including: member of comprehensive examination board, examiner for the thesis to be submitted after cancellation of registration,
  • Member of safety committee (for a decade)
  • Member of power committee (for several years),
  • Member of Institute and departmental centenary conferences organising commitee
  • Conduction of GATE and KVPY examinations
  • Member of Buildings and Works Committee (one term)
  • Member of Tender Subcommittee & Empowering Committee for Central Animal Facility

Served as a Reviewer for journals, conferences, project proposals and others:

Sl. No JOURNALS Manuscripts Reviewed
1 IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery  > 180
2 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications > 24
3 IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility & IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Insulation > 24
4 IEE* Proceedings Science Measurement and Technology (IET SMT) +
IEE Generation Transmission and Distribution (IET GTD)		 > 70
5 Journal of Atmospheric Research  + Journal of Lightning Research + Journal of Electrostatics > 14
6 Institute of Physics: Applied Physics > 15
7 Electrical Power System Research and Electric Power Component and Systems > 50
8 Journal of Institute of Electrical Engineers (India), Sadhana (India), Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, European Transaction on Electric Power, … Few to many
9 Several International and National Conferences like
Electromagnetic Compatibility Zurich (2007 & 2008),
International Conference on Lightning Protection 2010,
IEEE Industrial Application Society Conference 2010,
Power Tech 2010 Trondheim,
International Conference on Application and Properties of Dielectric Material 2012,
National  Power System Conference (2007 & 2008, …) , …..		 Few to many
10 Reviewed project proposals submitted to Department of Science and Technology (India), and Baba Atomic Research Centre (India), Hong Kong UGC, NSERC, Canada Few to many
11 Reviewed book proposal for an international publisher and also a proposal for international collaboration between institutes of different countries 2
12 Reviewed for a proposal for international collaboration between institutes of different countries 1
13 Examiner for thesis submitted to Indian Institute of Technology  Madras,  Abroad universities, Visweswaraiah Technical University,… Several times
 14 Invited as External Examiner for PhD at Institut Universitaire De Technologie D’Angouleme, Angouleme, Cedex, France, in 2007, Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2011,  Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2013, 2019 & 2021 and Khalifa University, Abu Dabi, UAE, 2023  
15

Steering Committee member of Asia Pacific International Lightning Conference Member of Technical Committee and Session Chair in Asia Pacific Lightning Conference  and International Conference of Lightning Protection on several years

 Several times

 

 

Awards/prizes conferred to my students:

  1. Elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineers, India in November 2023
  2. Rustum Choksi Award for excellence in engineering research 2024
  3. best paper presentation award & Diploma to Mr. Subba Reddy for the paper “Pollution Flashover Studies on High Voltage Ceramic Insulator Strings”, 11th IEEE Intl Student Conference on Electrical Engineering. The award consisted a cash prize of 2,500/-ck (Czech crowns) & gift pack sponsored by GE-Energy, Czech Republic and a Diploma certificate. Conference organized by Czech Technical University at Prague, 17th May 2007.
  4. best paper presentation award to Mr. Subba Reddy for the paper titled, “An innovative approach to improve pollution flashover performance of transmission line insulators”, 32nd National Systems Conference-2008, organized by Systems Society of India at Dept. of Electrical Engg, IIT Roorkee, 17th – 19th Dec 2008.
  5. appreciation Award and cash prize of Rs.5000/- to Mr. Subba Reddy for the paper, “A Novel Technique for Improving the Pollution Performance of High Voltage Ceramic Insulators”, 8th International Seminar on Electrical & Electronic Insulating Materials & Systems INSULEC-2009 held from 18th – 20th February 2009, Bangalore, organized by IEEMA Mumbai.
  6. INAE-Innovative Project Award-2011 to Mr. Subba Reddy for the best PhD Thesis given by Indian National Academy of Engg, New-Delhi.
  7. NRDC – Meritorious Societal Invention Award – 2011
    awarded by National Research Development Corporation (NRDC-DSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, NEW-DELHI.
  8. Diploma Certificate award to Ms. Rosy Balaram Raysaha for the work and presentation of paper “Direct Time Domain Modelling of First Return Stroke of Lightning”, at 29th International Conference on Lightning Protection ICLP2008, Uppsala, Sweden.
  9. Young Scientist award to Ms. Rosy Balaram Raysaha for the work and presentation of paper “Special Case of Lightning Strike to Tall Objects on Ground”, 30th International Conference on Lightning Protection, Cagliari, Italy.
  10. The thesis titled A general inception criteria for the positive upward leaders in negative cloud-to-ground lightning” of my M.Sc. (Eng.) student Prasanth Kumar B. has been awarded the Best Masters Thesis at ISTE-L&T National Award for the electrical and electronics engineering, 2004