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D Venkatramanan
Power Engineer || Researcher || Postdoc, Distributed Renewable Energy Systems
I am an electrical power engineer/researcher with a Ph.D. in Power Electronics technology from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Broadly, I work in the area of distributed renewable energy and storage systems, in an endeavor to promote sustainable energy and address climate-change challenges gripping our society at large. I specialize in grid integration of solar PV resources and energy storage systems (e.g., batteries and ultracapacitors) using high-performance PWM power converters. I have strong expertise and domain knowledge---with a demonstrated track record of contributions via relevant research publications---in converter modeling & control, simulations, hardware design & integration, as well as experimental validation. I am a Senior Member of IEEE with 4 years of professional work experience in R&D in the power-conversion industry. I am currently a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, working with Prof. Sairaj Dhople. My current research interests are towards next-generation inverter-based resources (IBRs) for large-scale PV integration and grid modernization at large. I am deeply passionate about teaching, research, and academia.
News
[Sept'22] Paper on per-unit modeling of dynamical systems accepted in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.
[Aug '22] Paper on fault behavior of grid-forming inverters accepted in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.
[July '22] Paper accepted in IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2022, to be held in Novi Sad, Serbia.
[July '22] Two papers accepted in IEEE IES IECON 2022, to be held in Brussels, Belgium.
[July '22] Presented a technical paper on Integrated system models for networks with generators and inverters at IREP 2022, held in Banff, Canada.
Archives
[July '22] Attended the first in-person UNIFI consortium general meeting, held at NREL, Golden, CO.
[July '22] Poster on Ultracapacitor modeling for designing energy-storage banks was presented in EE Summer School at the Dept of Electrical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore.