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Dr. Rabindra Mohanty

Present Designation:

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi

Areas of Interest:

Electric Power and Energy Systems, Microgrids, Smart Grids

Specialisation:

Power Systems Engineering 

Major Professional Contributions:

1. K. Gupta, S. Sahoo, R. Mohanty, B. K. Panigrahi, and F. Blaabjerg, “Distinguishing between cyber attacks and faults in power electronic systems – A non-invasive approach,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Nov. 2022 (available in early access).

2.       R. Mohanty, N. K. Sahu and A. K. Pradha, “Time-domain techniques for line protection using three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 3740-3751, Oct. 2022.

3.       S. Jena, R. Mohanty, and A. K. Pradhan, “Traveling wave based method for protection of shunt capacitor banks,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 2599-2609, Aug. 2022.

4.       R. Mohanty, P. Chen and Le A. Tuan, “Protection of converter dominated MV microgrids using change in current’s phase angle,” in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 16, Feb. 2022.

5.       R. Mohanty, S. Sahoo, A. K. Pradhan and F. Blaabjerg, “A Cosine Similarity Based Centralized Protection Scheme for DC Microgrids,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 5646-5656, Oct. 2021.

6.       R. Mohanty and A. K. Pradhan, “Time-Domain Protection and Fault Location of Wye-Connected Shunt Capacitor Banks using Superimposed Current and Differential Voltage,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 3486-3495, Dec. 2021.

7.       R. Mohanty and A. K. Pradhan, “DC Ring Bus Microgrid Protection using Oscillation Frequency and Transient Power,” in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 875-884, Mar. 2019.

8.       R. Mohanty and A. K. Pradhan, “Protection of smart DC microgrid with ring configuration using parameter estimation approach,” in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 6328-6337, Nov. 2018.

9.       R. Mohanty and A. K. Pradhan, “A Superimposed Current based Unit Protection Scheme for DC Microgrid,” in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3917-3919, Jul. 2018.

10.   R. Mohanty and A. K. Pradhan, “Faulted Section Identification for DC Distribution Systems using Smart Meter Data,in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1030-1037, Feb. 2018.

11. R. Mohanty, U. S. M. Balaji and A. K. Pradhan, “An Accurate Noniterative Fault-location Technique for Low-Voltage DC Microgrid,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 475-481, Apr. 2016.

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Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India (May 2022 - Present)

Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Telangana, India (Jun. 2021 - May 2022)

Postdoctoral researcher, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (Aug. 2018 - Apr. 2021)

Senior R&D Engineer, ABB India Development Center, Bangalore, Karnataka, India (Feb. 2018 - Jun. 2018)

Senior Engineer, Adani Power Limited, Maharastra, India (Jun. 2011 - July 2012)

Keywords

Power Systems Protection, Microgrids, Renewable energy integration, Smart grids

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Education

Ph.D., Electrical Enginering (Power Systems), IIT Kharagpur, 2018

M.Tech., Power and Energy Systems, IIT Kharagpur, 2014

B.Tech. , Electrical Enginering, VSSUT, Burla, Odisha, 2011

10+2, Science, CHSE, S. S. College, Amarda Road, Odisha , 2006

Class 10, BSE, HSCE, R. K. High School, Vellora, Odisha, 2004

Awards and Recognitions

INAE Young Engineer Award 2022

POSOCO Power Systems Award 2019 for PhD category

POSOCO Power Systems Award 2015 for MTech category

Best research poster award, IIT Kharagpur, 2017

INAE Section Affiliated

V: Electrical Engineering

Year of Election to Fellowship

2022

Year of Birth

1989

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