Biosketch
Bio
D Venkatramanan was born and raised in Chennai, TN, India. He received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy, India, in 2008, and the M.E. and, Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, in 2010, and 2019, respectively. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has been actively engaged in power electronics technology since 2010---this includes four years of professional work experience in industrial R&D and around three years of post-Ph.D research experience in academic institutions.
He was a Senior Design Engineer at APC by Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, from 2010 to 2013, where, he worked on online double-conversion smart-UPS system for home and business networks. He received the promising-newcomer-of-the-year-2011 award in this organization in 2012, as a recognition for his proactive efforts. Subsequently, from 2013 to 2014, he was with GE Healthcare, Bangalore, where, he worked on motor drive design for the patient-positioning platform in a cardiovascular X-ray imaging system. As a Senior Research Associate at IISc, Bangalore, from 2019 to 2020, his research focussed on sizing and design optimization of Ultracapacitor-based advanced energy-storage banks. Since Nov-2020, he has been a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, MN, USA, where, his research focuses on scalable grid-forming inverter control paradigms for large-scale integration of PV resources. He is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals including IEEE Transactions on--- Industry Applications, Energy Conversion, Power Electronics, Sustainable Energy, Industrial Electronics, Power Systems and Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics; he was recognized as a star reviewer for 2020 by the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. His current research interests are on next-generation inverter-based resources (IBRs), energy storage systems, and realizing their interoperability under a high percentage of PV penetration. His research efforts broadly are channeled towards enabling grid modernization and sustainability.
Education
Duration: Aug 2014 -- Dec 2019
Thesis: Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Reconfigurable Battery/Grid-tied Solar Photo-voltaic Inverter [link]
Advisor: Prof. Vinod John
Duration: Aug 2008 -- Jul 2010
Thesis: Integrated Magnetic Filter Transformer Design for a Grid-connected Single-phase PWM VSI [link]
Grade: 7.1/8, First class with Distinction
Advisor: Prof. Vinod John
[NOTE: I was immensely fortunate to be at EE, IISc in this particular period, as I could witness, experience, and learn firsthand from Prof. V Ramanarayanan and (late) Prof. V. T. Ranganathan---two extraordinary human beings who were also brilliant teachers & remarkable mentors. I belonged to the last batch of M.E degree students that they taught and trained in full. By watching and following them closely (inside and outside the classroom), I could not only pick up on the art of power electronics but also could glimpse at the true art of living that they practiced. This was a golden period and a turning point in my life, which greatly shaped my character and personality, and, set me on the trajectory toward an academic career. In 2010, Prof. VR retired from academic life, and Prof. VTR passed away.]
Duration: Aug 2004 -- Jul 2008
Project: Simulation studies on vector control of three-phase shunt active-filter and STATCOM
Grade: 8.5/10, First class with Distinction
Advisor: C. Nagamani
Duration: June 1992 -- Mar 2004
AISSCE (Class 12): 91%, School First [2004]
AISSE (Class 10): 86% [2002]
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Associate
Duration: Nov 2020 -- present
Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota (UMN), Twin-Cities, MN, USA
Senior Research Associate
Duration: Jan 2020 -- Oct 2020
Research Associate
Duration: Dec 2018 -- Dec 2019
Ph. D. Candidate
Duration: Aug 2014 -- Dec 2018
Affiliation: IISc, Bangalore
Industrial Work Experience
Electrical Engineer (Design)
Duration: Nov 2013 -- July 2014
Affiliation: GE Healthcare, John F Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore
Senior Engineer (Design)
Duration: Aug 2010 -- Oct 2013
Affiliation: APC by Schneider Electric pvt. ltd, India, Bangalore
Professional Service
Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (Star Reviewer for '2020)
IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics in Power Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy
Technical Track Chair
IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives, and Energy Systems Conference (PEDES), Trivandrum, India, 2020
IEEE Energy Conversion Congres and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, USA, 2022
🚩 muktābhimānī mukto hi baddho baddhābhimānyapi | kiṃvadantīha satyeyaṃ yā matiḥ sā gatirbhavet || 🚩
Source: Aṣṭāvakra Gītā
Transl: If one thinks of oneself as free, one is free indeed, and if one thinks of oneself as bound, one remains bound. The saying is true that 'as one thinks, so one becomes'.