Power grid studies with hybrid renewable energy resources (wind, PV, and storage), advanced power grid control, dynamics, model order reduction, stability assessment, enhancement, system inertia & flexibility.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

• M.Tech, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India (First class with Distinction).

• B. Tech, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India (First class with Distinction).

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

1. Developed the SAVE Tool (Stability Assessment, Visualization, and Enhancement) for TRANSCO, 2023 in the UAE and received the first-place R&D award from the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure from top 53 projects around the world.

2. Received the prestigious Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) Power System Award from Power Grid India, 2014.

3. Appointed as Associate Graduate Faculty member (UNC, USA).

4. Awarded fellowship from ‘COST, E.On Energy Research Centre, RWTH Aachen, Germany.

5. National Scholarship holder.

6. Received scholarship from CSIR, INDIA to present paper in IEEE GM, 2012, San Diego, California, USA.

7. IEEE Senior member and IEEE Young Professionals member.

INVITED LECTURES

1. Real-time frequency based reduced order modeling of large power grid Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Russian Federation, Moscow Region, 3rd Oct 2016.

2. Advanced Approaches to Renewable Energy Integrated Power System Modeling and Energy Management IISC Bangalore, 28th Nov 2016.

3. Wind Energy Conversion System IIT Palakkad, 28th Dec 2016.

4. i) “Dynamic modelling of Renewable energy resources”
ii) “Grid operation & control challenges for Weak inertia systems” at Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bengaluru, India, 9-10th Nov 2017.

POST PhD PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

1. Research Scientist: Department of Electrical Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. July 2018 – Feb 2023.

( I was the lead researcher for a collaborative research project between Manitoba Hydro International, Canada, MIT, Cambridge, USA, UAE TRANSCO and Masdar Institute. The main objective of this project was to make an online suitable tool for stability assessment, visualization and enhancement (SAVE tool) for the UAE power system with renewable energy integration. Moreover, our developed tool received a first-place R&D award from the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure from top 53 projects around the world) .

2. Assistant Professor: Department of Electrical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University & SRM University, India. Oct. 2016- Dec 2017.

4. Associate Graduate faculty member: Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of North Carolina, USA. Mar. 2014 – Sep. 2016.

(I worked at Duke Energy’s most prestigious Smart Grid Laboratory, EPIC (Energy Production and Infrastructure Center). My research was on grid studies with hybrid renewable energy resources (wind) and storage, advanced power grid control, dynamics, model order reduction and stability. I was also the lead researcher for the Hybrid real-time simulator-based advanced modeling of the Southern California Edison grid project).

5. Assistant Professor: Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, India. Apr. 2013 – Feb. 2014

PATENTS FILED:

Sudipta Ghosh and El Moursi, Bus inertia for enhancing dynamic flexibility of hybrid power systems, US Patent. Aug, 2022. U.S. Application No 63/402,012.

PUBLICATIONS

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Refereed Journal Article:

1. Sudipta Ghosh, Younes J. Isbeih, and Mohamed Moursi, “Assessment of Bus Inertia to Enhance  Dynamic Flexibility of Hybrid Power Systems with Renewable Energy Integration,” in IEEE trans. on Power Del., vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 2372-2386, Aug. 2023. 

2. Sudipta Ghosh and Mohamed Moursi, “An Analytical Approach for Frequency Estimation of Modern Power Grid,” in IEEE trans. on Power Syst., vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 4094-4097, Sept. 2022.

3. Sudipta Ghosh, Younes J. Isbeih, Syafiq. Azman, Mohamed Moursi and Ehab El-Saadany, “Optimal PMU Allocation Strategy for Completely Observable Networks with Enhanced Transient Stability Characteristics,” in IEEE trans. on Power Del, 2022.

4. Younes J. Isbeih, Sudipta Ghosh, Mohamed Moursi, Ehab El-Saadany,”Online DMDc Based Model Identification Approach for Transient Stability Enhancement Using Wide Area Measurements”, IEEE trans. on power syst., vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 4884-4887, 2021.

5. Abilash Thakallapelli, Sudipta Ghosh and Sukumar Kamalasadan, “Sensorless real-time reduced order model-based adaptive maximum power tracking pitch controller for grid connected wind turbines”, Electric Power System Research, vol. 194, pp. 107-115, 2021.

6. Sudipta Ghosh, Younes J. Isbeih, Mohamed Moursi, Ehab El-Saadany and S Kamalasadan, “Dynamic Coordination Control Architecture for Reactive Power Capability Enhancement of the DFIG-based Wind Power Generation”, IEEE trans. on power syst, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 3051-3064, 2020.

7. Sudipta Ghosh, Mohamed Moursi, Ehab El-Saadany and Khalifa Al Hosani, “Online Coherency Based Adaptive Wide Area Damping Controller for Transient Stability Enhancement”, IEEE trans. on power syst., vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 3100-3113, 2020.

8. Sudipta Ghosh, Younes J. Isbeih, Mohamed Moursi, and Ehab El-Saadany, “Cross-Gramian Model Reduction Approach for Tuning Power System Stabilizers in Large Power Networks”, IEEE trans. on power syst., vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 1911-1922, 2020.

9. Abilash Thakallapelli, Sudipta Ghosh and Sukumar Kamalasadan, “Development and Applicability of Online Passivity Enforced Wide-Band Multi-Port Equivalents For Hybrid Transient Simulation”, IEEE trans. on power syst., vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 2302-2311, May 2019.

10. Rojan Bhattarai, Niroj Gurung, Sudipta Ghosh, Sukumar Kamalasadan, “Parametrically Robust Dynamic Speed Estimation Based Control for Doubly Fed Induction Generator “, IEEE trans. on Industry app., vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 6529-6542, 2018.

11. Tim Paul, Sheikh J. Hossain, Sudipta Ghosh, Pranab Mandal, Sukumar Kamalasadan, “A Quadratic Programming Based Optimal Power and Battery Dispatch for Grid-Connected Microgrid”, IEEE trans. on Industry app., vol. 54, no. 2, pp.1793-1805, 2018.

12. Sudipta Ghosh, and Sukumar Kamalasadan, “An Integrated Dynamic Modeling and Adaptive Controller Approach for Flywheel Augmented DFIG Based Wind System”, IEEE trans. on power syst., vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 2161-2171, 2017.

13. Sudipta Ghosh, and Sukumar Kamalasadan, “An Energy Function based Optimal Control Strategy for output stabilization of Integrated DFIG-Flywheel Energy storage System”, IEEE trans. on smart grid, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1922-1931, 2017.

14. Sudipta Ghosh, Sukumar Kamalasadan, Nilanjan Senroy and Johan Enslin, “Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG)-based Wind Farm Control Framework for Primary Frequency and Inertial Response Application”, IEEE trans. on power syst., vol. 31, no. 03, pp.1861-1871, 2016.

15. Nikhil Kulkarni, Sukumar Kamalasadan, Sudipta Ghosh, “An Integrated Method for Optimal Placement and Tuning of Power System Stabilizer Based on Full Controllability Index and Generator Participation”, IEEE trans. on Industry app., vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 4201-4211, 2015.

16. Sudipta Ghosh, and Nilanjan Senroy, “Electromechanical Dynamics of Controlled Variable Speed Wind Turbines”, IEEE syst. Journal., vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 639-646, 2015.

17. Sudipta Ghosh, and Nilanjan Senroy, “Balanced Truncation based Reduced Order Modeling of Wind Farm”, Int. J. Elect. Power Energy Syst., vol. 53, pp. 649-655. 2013.

18. Sudipta Ghosh, and Nilanjan Senroy, “Balanced Truncation Approach to Power System Model Order Reduction”, Electric Power Components and Syst., vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 747-764, 2013.

19. Sudipta Ghosh, and Nilanjan Senroy, “The Localness of Electromechanical Oscillations in Power Systems”, Int. J. Elect. Power Energy. Syst., vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 306-313, 2012.

20. Sudipta Ghosh, S. P. Ghoshal and Saradindu Ghosh “Optimal Sizing and Placement of Distributed Generation in a Network System”, Int. J. Elect. Power Energy. Syst., vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 849-856, 2010.

Refereed Conference Articles:

1. Sudipta Ghosh, Rojan Bhattarai ,Sukumar Kamalasadan, “Reactive Power Estimation based Adaptive Voltage Control for Improved Grid Voltage Restoration using Doubly Fed Induction Generators” IEEE ITEC India , Pune, India, 13-15th Dec 2017.

2. Abilash Thakallapelli, Sudipta Ghosh and Sukumar Kamalasadan, “Real-Time Reduced Order Model Based Adaptive Pitch Controller for Grid Connected Wind Turbines”, Proc.of IEEE Industrial Applications Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA, Oct 2016.

3. Abilash Thakallapelli, Sudipta Ghosh and Sukumar Kamalasadan, “Real-time Frequency Based Reduced Order Modelling of Large Power Grid”, in Proc. of IEEE PES General Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 2016.

4. Tim Paul, Sudipta Ghosh, Sukumar Kamalasadan and Pranab Mondal, “A Quadratic Programming Based Optimal Power and Battery Dispatch for Grid Connected Microgrid”, Proc.of IEEE Industrial Applications Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA, Oct 2016.

5. Tim Paul, Sudipta Ghosh and Sukumar Kamalasadan, “A Hybrid Battery Optimal Power Dispatch for Grid Connected Micro Grid” , Proc. of IEEE PEDES, Trivandrum, India, Dec-2016.

6. Sudipta Ghosh, Nilanjan Senroy, Sukumar Kamalasadan and Sukumar Mishra, “Fast PSS Tuning in Large Power Systems”, in Proc. of IEEE PES General meeting, Denver, CO, USA, July 2015.

7. Sudipta Ghosh, Nilanjan Senroy and Sukumar Kamalasadan, “Reduced Order Modeling of Wind Farms for Inclusion in Large Power System Simulations for Primary Frequency Response”, North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Pullman, WA, USA, Sept. 2014.

8. Sudipta Ghosh, “Closed loop Control of a DFIG based Wind Power System”, in Proc. of IEEE ISGT, ASIA 2013, Bangalore, India, Nov 2013.

9. Sudipta Ghosh, and Nilanjan Senroy, “A Comparative Study of Two Model Order Reduction Approaches for Application in Power Systems”, in Proc. of IEEE PES General Meeting, San Diego, California, USA, pp. 1-8, July 2012.

10. Sudipta Ghosh, and Nilanjan Senroy, “Effect of generator type on the participation of adjacent synchronous machines in electromechanical oscillations”, Proc. IEEE PEDES, pp. 1-3, New Delhi, India, Dec 2010.

11. Sudipta Ghosh, S. P. Ghoshal and Saradindu Ghosh, “Two Analytical Approaches for Optimal Placement of Distributed Generation Unit in Power Systems”, Proc. IEEE ICPS, pp-1-4, Kharagpur, India, Dec 2009.

Co-MENTER IN PROJECTS (University of North Carolina, USA)

1. A. Thakkalapelli, “Approaches for Real time frequency based Reduced Order Modelling and Wide area Control of Modern Power Grid”, Sept 2018 (PhD).

2. R. Bhattarai, “Adaptive Control of Renewable Energy Resources for Improving the Dispatchability and Operation Stability of Renewable Energy Integrated Power System”, August 2018 (PhD).

3. R. Buyyanapragada, “Structure Preserving Energy Function Based Analysis of the power grid”, March 2015, (MS).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Journal Article Reviewer

• IEEE trans. on Power system   • IEEE Power Engineering Letters    • IEEE trans. on Power delivery

• IEEE trans. on Smart grid    • IEEE trans. on Industrial Electronics    • IEEE trans. on Power Electronics.

• IEEE trans. on Sustainable Energy.  • IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications   • IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Session chair for NAPS (North American Power Symposium) 2015.

• In Student Program Committee for NAPS (North American Power Symposium) 2015.

• Member for technical committee for International Conference on “Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (ETET)” during Dec 14-15, 2015.

EXTERNAL PhD THESIS EXAMINERS

IIT Delhi, CPRI Bangalore