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Name:

Dr K. SHANTI SWARUP


Address for Communication:

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Electrical Sciences Block (ESB) 349-B

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chennai 600036, INDIA

Tel: 0091-44-2257-8404

Fax:0091-44-2257-0509

Email:

shantiswarup@yahoo.com, swarup@ee.iitm.ernet.in, shantiswarup@ieee.org, swarup@iitm.ac.in


URL:

http://www.ee.iitm.ernet.in/~swarup





SKILLS

Software Skills

9+ years of C/C++, AI Languages, Matlab, X-Windows, Motif Programming, Java, HTML.

Hardware Platforms

Sun Sparc Station-II, HP-UNIX WorkStation, Macintosh, Windows, and IBM Dec-10.



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INDUSTRY

[1992-1995]:

Advanced R&D, Mitsubishi Electric corporation, Amagasaki, Japan. Research Department.


Position: Visiting Research Scientist.


Responsibilities:

Consultancy and Software package development for Electric Power Industry.


Specific Duties Include:

  1. Theoretical Analysis and software programming for Electric Power Industry requirements for Planning, Scheduling & Control.


  1. Project Appraisal, Proposal and Execution.


  1. Documentation and Technical Reports preparation and presentation during stages of development and presentation in conferences.


Accomplishments:

  1. Software Package developed for the client Kansai Electric Power Company, Japan.


  1. Intelligent Systems Package for Scheduling and Operation in Power Plants.


  1. Two patents (pending) for Industrial Research and Development.


  1. One Journal (invited) publication and several Conference Publications.



ACADEMIC



[2000(Feb) – 2000(Aug) ]: Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600036

Department of Electrical Engineering

Position: Visiting Faculty

Responsibilities: Teaching to Under-Graduates, Post Graduates.


[2000(Sept) – Present ]: Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600036

Department of Electrical Engineering

Assistant Professor:

Responsibilities: Teaching to Under-Graduates, Post Graduates, Project Supervision, Electrical Power Systems Engineering Laboratory Experiments.

Courses taken:

Under Graduate:

EC303: Power Systems Practice.

EE443: Power System Operation & control.


Post Graduate:

EE691: Computer methods in power system analysis.

EE696: Computer applications in Power Systems.

EE697: Electric Energy Resource Management.

EE793: Special Topics in Power Systems.


[1996-1999(March)]: Kitami Inst. of Tech., Hokkaido, Japan. Associate Professor.


Responsibilities: Teaching, Project Research, Seminar, Supervision and Guidance.

Specific Duties Include:

  1. Graduate/Post-Graduate Teaching, Course in Computational Intelligence.

  2. Supervision of Under Graduate and Post-Graduates in Soft Computing.

  3. Executing Independent Research.


Accomplishments:

  1. Development of software package for optimal scheduling for power industry.

  2. Best Paper award in the 2nd International Conf. on Electrical Engg. Japan July 1997.

  3. Initiated / Developed a course/seminar/research project in computational Intelligence and Soft Computing (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Genetic Algorithms) for Scheduling and Prediction.

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, (Power Systems) Knowledge Based Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dec. 1991. [1987-1992].


  1. M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems and Control) in First Class from Regional Engineering College, Warangal, in August 1986. [1984-1986].


  1. B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in First Class with Distinction from Jawharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, in April 1983. [1979 - 1983].

Research Projects

  1. Microprocessor (Intel 8085) Based Control, HVDC Converter Control, hardware development, control system interface and software programming. R&D was carried out at the Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore, India for Master’s Dissertation Project. (August 1994 to June 1985).


  1. Elec. System Studies at Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), New Delhi, (May-Jun’84).

Publications

Journal (6), Conference (25)



Details of Research / Industry Experience


Industry / Institute

Research Study / Project

  1. Bharat Heavy Electricals limited (BHEL), Industry Sector, New Delhi, India (May-June 1984).

Industrial Trainee

"Electrical System Studies in Industry"


The research topic includes the analysis, study and application of various power system studies for industry. Examples include Power Flow Stability: Short and Long duration, Planning, Operation and Control.

  1. Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore, India (August 1984 to June 1985).

Post Graduate Trainee

"Microprocessor Based HVDC Sending End Controller"


This research involves the Design, Development and Implementation of both hardware and software aspects of the microprocessor (8085) based power electronic controller replicating the operation of an HVDC power transmission system. The project involves hardware development (for the 12 pulse thyristor converter and firing circuits) and software programming (on the microprocessor for different control strategies and operating conditions (normal and abnormal). Testing and implementation of the IPC (Individual Pulse Control) and EPC (Equidistant Pulse Control) strategies with control signals internally generated within the mirco-processor. Waveforms tested and verified for the converter operating with different types of loads (R-X, R-C, L-C).

3. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, 1987-1991.

Doctoral Candidate.

"Knowledge Based Systems for Diagnostic Problem Solving of Electrical Power Systems and HVDC Networks"


The thesis consists of feasibility study, analysis and implementation of various knowledge based approaches like artificial intelligence, expert systems, pattern recognition, neural networks and machine learning for diagnostic problem solving and their application to electrical power systems and hvdc systems. Problem formulation, modeling and representation and solution procedure are described for general problem solving with different inference procedures and their application to power systems. Feasibility of application of these approaches for diagnostic problem solving of two case studies of ac and dc power networks is described. Design and development of several procedures for diagnostic problem solving are also presented.

Publications: Journal (1), Conference(14).

4. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced Systems Department, Industrial Systems Laboratory, Amagasaki, Japan.

Visiting Research Scientist.

"Intelligent Systems Application to Optimization, Planning and Scheduling for Electric Power Industry"


Consultancy and Software Development of Package to Kansai electric Power company. This project involves research into the identification of various knowledge based approaches / intelligent systems and study into those approaches suitable for planning and scheduling operations in an electric utility.

Development: 'C' on Sun Solaris II / HP-UX Ver 9.03.

Clients: Technical Research Centre, Kansai Electric Power Company.

Responsibility: Software development testing and implementation of the general purpose package for large scale optimization and scheduling of controllable power apparatus in power industry.

Patents:

AP138555: (1992) Genetic Algorithms Applications to Power Systems.

A-149206: (1994) Genetic Algorithms for Reactive Power Planning of Power Systems.

Technical Reports:

1. ORR 92: Machine Learning and Genetic Algorithms (GAs).

2. ORR 93: GAs for Optimization in Electric Power Systems.

3. ORR 93: GAs for Economic Load Dispatch of Power Systems.

4. ORR 94: GAs for Environment Constrained ELD.

5. ORR 94: GAs for Reactive Power Planning of Power Systems.

6. ORR95: Decomposition and Coordination approach using GAs.

Publications: Journal (1), Conference (10).

5. Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan. Oct. 1996 to March 1999.

Associate Professor.

"Computational Intelligence Application to Optimization, Scheduling and Prediction problems in Electrical Power Systems"


This research project involves identification and implementation of various computational intelligent systems to optimization, scheduling and prediction problems encountered in power systems. Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks were identified as two promising tools and are applied to the problems of optimization and prediction problems.

Operational scheduling of power generating units using GAs and Neural networks were carried out in detail. Short term load forecasting and prediction using neural networks were carried out as other associated research project. prediction of the load for 24 hours using past historical data of 72 hours was used for training the neural network off-line.

Implementation: 'C' on HP-UX; MATLAB NN toolbox, etc.

Publications: Journal (1), Conference (7).

6. Computer Maintenance Corporation (CMC Ltd.), Hyderabad. Aug.1999 to Present.

IT Consultant.

"Information Technology Applications to Electrical Power Systems"

The responsibility involves the identification and application of Information Technology to Electric Systems form an Indian Industry point of view. Potential application areas and feasibility of implementation within the framework of available resources and requirements forms the basis of the project / assignment.

Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) for Power Systems Operational Control and Substation/Distribution Automation.

Distribution Automation of Power Systems and remote switching.

Network Analysis Studies for Real time operation of power systems including State Estimation, On-Line Power Flow, Contingency Analysis and Security Constraint Optimal Power Flow studies.

Power System Operational Studies under deregulation and restructuring. Publications: Conference (3)

7. Dept. of EE

I.I.T Madras Chennai 600036

Feb 2002 to Present

Academic teaching and research in Electrical Power Systems. Courses: Computer Methods and Applications of Power Systems, Power System Operation and Optimization, Energy Management Systems and SCADA. Research Areas: Power System Deregulation and Restructuring .Guided 15 M.Tech and 20 B.Tech students. Currently Guiding 2 Ph.D, 2 MS, 6 B.Tech students .

SUPERVISION AND GUIDANCE OF STUDENTS

B.TECH

NO

STUDENT NAME

TITLE OF THESIS

1

ATUL MOHAN

Capacitor Placement Problem in Substation Automation

2

PIDAPARTHY S SUBASH

Voltage VAR Control in Power Systems using Neural Networks

3

SUBASH CHANDRA P

A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Unit Commitment

4

ROSHAN CHUTKEY

Application of Neural Networks in Diagnosing Faults in Power Systems

5

VIJAY GUPTA

Reactive Power Planning using Evolutionary Programming

6

ARKAJITMANDAL

Modeling and Simulation of Static Var Compensator

7

C.SHEKHAR DHIR

Fuzzy Optimal Power Flow

8

RAVI BADHAN

Distribution System Reconfiguration using OOOP

9

VASUDEV KATARIA

Modeling and Simulation of Static Synchronous Series Capacitor

10

B. RAJESH

Economic Dispatch for Prohibiting Operating zones using Dynamic Programming

11

RUPESH MASTAKAR

Decision Tree approach to Security Assessment in Power Systems

12

VINODH ANANTH

Distribution Automation using Microprocessor Based (Data Acquisition System) DAS

13

S.P. PREM KUMAR

14

H. SURESH KUMAR

Fuzzy Systems Approach to Reactive Power Dispatch

15

KALYAN KUMAR SARKAR

Congestion Management Studies in Power Systems Under Deregulation

16

ANIL KUMAR BHAGAT

Evolutionary Programming Approach to Unit Commitment

17

DEEPAK

Game Theory Approach to Market Price determination under deregulation

18

MANOJ JYOTI DAS

Neural Network for hr Control of Dynamical Systems in Power Systems: Applications to Power Systems

19

NIKUNJ VOHRA

Java Based Power System Studies for Power Systems: Application to Economic Dispatch and Optimal Power Flow.

20

B. P. PADMARAJU

Fuzzy Based Pricing mechanism in Bilateral Electricity Markets

21

SIVA CHANDRA

Machine Learning techniques Applications to Power Systems Security: A case Study in Clustering and Pattern Recognition.


M.TECH

No

STUDENT NAME

TITLE OF THESIS

1

P. BRITTO CORTHIS

(EE99801)

Power System Static Security Assessment using Self Organizing Neural Network: A GUI Development Environment

2

SIMI VALSEN

(EE99780)

Neural Network Approach for the solution of Economic Dispatch and Unit Commitment

3

B. SATISH

(EE99774)

An Integrated Artificial Neural Network Approach to Short Term Load Forecasting.

4

G. SUDHAKAR

(EE99781)

“Power System Contingency Screening and Ranking Using Artificial Neural Network

5

P. MALLIKARJUNA REDDY

Simulation and Fault Diagnosis of HVDC System using Simulink and Artificial Neural Networks

6

P. SURESH BABU

Microprocessor-based Multifunction Relay for Transmission Line Protection

7

P. RAJA

(EE006)

Analysis of Restructured Power System Under Congestion

8

N. P. SISHA

(EE00698)

Neural Network Approach to Optimal Power Flow Studies

9

A. KAVITHA

(EE00690)

Fuzzy Dynamic Programming Approach to The Solution Of Unit Commitment

10

VAISHALI S. NANDANWAR

(EE00700)

Active and Reactive Dispatch Using Analytical Hierarchy Process

11

P. KRISHNA MURTHY

(EE01M029)

Energy Brokerage in Deregulated Power Systems

12

J. AMARNATH REDDY

(EE01M027)

Simulation of Client Server Open System Architecture for Power System Security in Energy Management Systems

13

PATIL GIRISH

(EE01M030)

Incorporation of FACTS devices in Load Flow Studies

14

U SRINIVAS

(EE01M0036)

Object Oriented Programming Applications in Power Systems


MS.

NAME OF THE STUDENT

TITLE

ROHIT KUMAR

(IN PROGRESS: 1ST YEAR)

Particle Swarm Optimization in Power System: Applications to Economic Dispatch and Optimal Power Flow

PRASAD REDDY

(In Progress: 1st Year)

Dynamic Security Assessment of Power Systems using Intelligent Information techniques


Ph.D.

NAME OF THE STUDENT

TITLE OF THESIS

M.P.SELVAN

( In progress: 1st Year)

Object Oriented Programming Applications To Power Systems

N.RAGHAVAN

(In progress: 1st Year)

Modeling And Simulation Of Facts Devices In Power Systems



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


February 2002:

  1. Chief Guest for the Association of Electrical Engineers at the Vellore Institute of technology (Deemed University) , Vellore, February 28th 2002.


  1. gave a guest lecture on “Artificial Neural Network Applications to Power Systems” to the stduents and STAFF OF the Department of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.


  1. Served as a Judge for the Students Paper Contest Presentations at .Vellore Institute of technology, Vellore, February 28th 2002


April 2002:

Served as a Judge for the for ‘TechFest 2003’, Student Paper Presentation Contest along with Prof. K. Ramar in the Electrical Engineers Association of Hindustan College of Engineering, Chennai on 14 April 2002


July 2002:

Reviewer of the manuscripts of first five chapters of the Book on ‘Fuzzy Sets and Logic”, Oxford University press, New Delhi.


August 2002:

Elevated to the Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), USA for Membership Activities.


September 2002

  1. Guest lecture on “Neural Network Applications to Power Systems” to the Pre-final and Final year students at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mailam Engineering College, MAILAM, Chennai 7th September 2002 as a part of their Electrical Engineering Association.


  1. Series Of 15 Guest Lectures At THE Department OF Electrical Engineering, Crescent Engineering College, Chennai On “Power System Planning And Reliability” September To November 2002, Of Two Hours Duration each.


November 2002

1. Question Paper Setter for the Institute of Engineers (India) Kolkatta Division on ‘Optimization in Engineering Design” 16th November 2002.


2. Guest lecture on “Artificial intelligence for Protection” at the School of Electrical Engineering, Anna University on 21st November 2002 as a part of the “Short term Course on Protection” for TNEB Practicing Engineers..


3. Guest lecture on “Computational Intelligence in Power Systems. Part I Theoretical Concepts and foundations and Part II Applications and Case Studies” at the SRM College of Engineering, CHENNAI ON 29th November 2002 as a part of the ISTE Short term Course on “ADVANCED POWER SYSTEMS”


December 2003

1. Presented A Guest Lecture At The One Day IEEE Seminar Of Academic Lectures On Electrical, Electronic And Computer Engineering Topics “COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN POWER SYSTEMS” ORGANIZED BY THE IEEE MADRAS SECTION AND TCS On 14th December 2002 At Sholinganallur, Chennai.


2. Reporter for the Special Session on “Power System Operation and Control”, 28th December 2002 at the National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2002), IIT Kharapghur, Dec 27-19 2002


3. Chairman for the Oral Session VII C on "Unit Commitment" on 29th December 2002 from 14.00 hrs to 16.30 hrs at the National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2002), IIT Kharapghur, Dec 27-19 2002



LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF Dr. K. S. SWARUP


JOURNAL:

  1. "Expert System approach to fault diagnosis of HVDC Systems", K. S.Swarup and H.S.Chandrasekhariah, Journal of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Special Issue on AI and Expert Systems at IISc, May-June 1990, No. 70, pp. 249-268.

  2. "Genetic Algorithm Approach to Environmental Constrained Optimal Economic Dispatch", by K. S. Swarup, M. Yoshimi, S. Shimano, Y. Izui, International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems (EIS), Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1996, pp.11-23.

  3. “Unit Commitment Solution Methodology Using Genetic Algorithm”, K.S.Swarup and S. Yamashiro, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, February 2002, pp 87-91.

  4. “ANN Approach Assess System Security”, K. S. Swarup and P. Britto Corthis, IEEE Computer Applications in Power, July 2002, pp. 32-38.

  5. “Integrated ANN Approach to Forecast Load”, K. S. Swarup and B. Satish, IEEE Computer Applications in Power, April 2002, pp. 46-51.

  6. “A Genetic Algorithm Approach To Generator Unit Commitment”, By K. S. Swarup and S. Yamashiro, Paper accepted for publication in the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, UK.



BOOK CHAPTER:

  1. "Fault Diagnosis of HVDC Systems using Artificial Neural Networks", by K. S.Swarup. H.S.Chandrasekhariah, L.Lai, Springer Verlag, 1993.


CONFERENCE:

  1. "FDES: Fault Diagnosis Expert Systems for HVDC Systems", by K. S. Swarup. H.S.Chandrasekhariah, Second Symposium on Expert Systems Applications to Power Systems (ESAP), Seattle, pp. 296-302, July 1989.

  2. "Model-Based Reasoning for Power System fault Diagnosis", by K. S. Swarup. H.S. Chandrasekhariah, Sixth National Power Systems Conference, IIT/IGIDR, pp. 139-144, June 1990.

  3. "Model-Based Fault Diagnosis of Power Systems", by K. S. Swarup. H. S. Chandrasekhariah, Third symposium on Expert Systems application to Power Systems (ESAP'91), April 1991.

  4. "Power System Fault Detection and Diagnosis using Artificial Neural Networks", by K. S. Swarup. H.S. Chandrasekhariah, First Intl. Forum on Applications of Neural Networks to Power Systems, Seattle, July 1991.

  5. "Pattern Classification using Neural Networks for Diagnostic Problem Solving", by K. S. Swarup. H.S. Chandrasekhariah, International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN), UK, pp.441-446, Sept 1992.

  6. "Optimal Power Dispatch Using Genetic Algorithms" K.S.S warup and Y.Izui, Second Intl. Conference on Neural Networks Applications to Power Systems ,Japan, April 1983.

  7. "Genetic Algorithms Approach to Reactive Power Planning in Power Systems", K. S. Swarup and Y. Izui, IEE Japan Power and Energy Conference, pp. 119-124, July 1994.

  8. "Environmental Constrained Optimal Economic Dispatch using Genetic Algorithms", K. S. Swarup M. Yoshimi, N. Nagai and Y. Izui, Intl. Conference on Intelligent Systems applications to Power Systems (ISAP), pp. 707-714, Paris, Sept. 1994.

  9. "Optimization Methods using Genetic Algorithms for Reactive Power Planning in Power Systems", K. S. Swarup and Y.Izui, Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), pp. 483-491, Dresden, August 1996.

  10. "Unit Commitment Solution Using a Genetic Algorithm", by K. S. Swarup and S. Yamashiro, Intl.Conf. on Electrical Engineering, Matsue, Japan, pp. 37-40, July 1997.

  11. "A Genetic Algorithm Approach to the Solution of the Basic Unit Commitment Problem", by K. S. Swarup and S. Yamashiro, IEE Japan national Convention Conference, PP. 29-34, October 1997.

  12. "Neural Network Forecasting of Daily Load", Fuzzy Systems and Neural Networks in Electrical Engineering, REC, Warangal, 24-25 Sept. 1999.

  13. "Economic Load Dispatch Using Neural Networks", Fuzzy Systems and Neural Networks in Electrical Engineering, REC, Warangal, 24-25 Sept. 1999.

  14. “Power System Operation and Communications in a Deregulated Environment”, International Symposium on Telecommunications in the Power Sector”, December 2000, New Delhi.

  15. “Economic Dispatch and Unit Commitment Solution using Hopfield Neural Network”, Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems, Budapest, Hungary, June 2001.

  16. “Integrated Short term Load Forecasting using Neural Network”, Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems, Budapest, Hungary, June 2001.

  17. P. Subash Chandra and K. Shanti Swarup, “Unit Commitment Solution Using Genetic Algorithms” 27th IEEE Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE) 2001, IIT Delhi, November 1-3, 2001, pp.35-41

  18. “Voltage VAR Control using Artificial Neural Networks”, K. Shanti Swarup and P.S.Subash, 27th IEEE Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE) 2001, IIT Delhi, November 1-3, 2001,189-194.

  19. “Voltage VAR Control in Automated Power Systems using Artificial Neural Networks” P.S.Subash and K. S. Swarup, International Conference on Energy Automation and Information Technology, Dept. of EE. IIT Kharaghpur, December 10-12, 2001.

  20. “Distribution Feeder Reconfiguration using Object Oriented Programming”, R, Badhan, M.P.Selvan and K.S.Swarup., IEEE ACE 2002 Conference, Science City , Kolkatta, 20-21 Dec 2002, Paper no PW-33, pp. 430-434.

  21. “Network Topology Processor: An Object Oriented Approach“,M.P.Selvan and K.S.Swarup., IEEE ACE 2002 Conference, Science City, Kolkatta, 20-21 Dec 2002, Paper no PW-33, pp. 435-4339.

  22. “Fuzzy Systems Approach to Optimal Power Flow “, C.S.Dhir and K.S.Swarup. IEEE ACE 2002 Conference, Science City, Kolkatta, 20-21 Dec 2002, Paper no PW-33, pp. 440-444.

  23. “Study of Static Synchronous Series Compensator and its Performance suing System Fault Condition“,N. Raghavan, V. Kataria, K.S.Swarup and K. Vasudevan, IEEE ACE 2002 Conference, Science City, Kolkatta, 20-21 Dec 2002, pp 445-449.

  24. “Static Security Assessment of Power Systems Using Self Organizing Neural Networks“, P. Britto Corthis and K.S.Swarup, National Power Systems Conference 2002 IIT Kharaghpur, Dec 27-19 2002, pp. 796-799.

  25. “Unit Commitment using Fuzzy Dynamic Programming”, A. Kavitha and K.S.Swarup, National Power Systems Conference 2002 IIT Kharaghpur, Dec 27-19 2002, pp 817-820.

  26. “A Novel Neural Network Approach for Short term Load Forecasting“, B.Satish and K.S.Swarup, National Power Systems Conference 2002 IIT Kharaghpur, Dec 27-19 2002, pp 821-824.

  27. “Congestion Management of Power Systems under Deregulated Operation”, P.Raja, K.S.Swarup and K.Ramar, National Power Systems Conference 2002 IIT Kharaghpur, Dec 27-19 2002, pp 844-847.

  28. “Simulation of Client Server Model for Assessing Power System Security in an EMS”, by J. Amarnath Reddy and K.S.Swarup, in the National Seminar on SCADA Systems for Electric Utilities” 16-18the January 2003, at Central Institute for Rural Electrification (CIRE) Hyderabad.




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